Meet the experts

Dr. Bachmann has been an audiologist for over 30 years. She completed her undergraduate studies at Miami University of Ohio before graduating from the University of Akron with her MS in Audiology. After her clinical fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Dr. Bachmann attended Vanderbilt University, earning her PhD in 1996. She is currently a clinical audiologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, specializing in the evaluation of dizziness and balance disorders in children, both clinically and through her research. Dr. Bachmann has co-authored several book chapters and many articles and has given numerous presentations across the country on hearing and balance disorders. Dr. Bachmann is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, where she advises student capstone projects and teaches the vestibular courses in the AuD program.

 Dr. Kathy Dowd, AuD received her undergraduate degree in French Education from Spalding University, Masters in Audiology from University of Louisville and Doctorate from Salus University.   In the last five years, Dr. Dowd has worked to raise the awareness of chronic disease and ototoxic medications that cause hearing loss by instructing diabetes educators, optometrists and audiologists nationally about this silent unmet medical need. Her background in Audiology for 40 years is varied:  educational audiology at local and state levels, as well as private practice in ENT and proprietary clinics. 

Dr. Dowd’s goal for the next 5 years with the Audiology Project is to find ways to raise awareness within the medical, state and national communities about chronic diseases co morbid with hearing loss, to organize audiology organizations around this issue and to assist the transition of Audiology from retail to medical management models of patient audiology healthcare.    

Terry Zwolan, PhD, is Director of Audiology Access and Standard of Care at Cochlear Americas. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Michigan Medicine where she served as Director of the Cochlear Implant from 1990-2021, and previously served as Director of Audiology for Hearing First from 2021-2022. She is a co-founder of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance and served on its initial Board of Directors. She previously served as Director for two courses for the Institute for Cochlear Implant Training (ICIT) and also served as an adjunct faculty member for Wayne State University’s AUD Program. She has authored/co-authored numerous articles and chapters related to adult and pediatric cochlear implants.