Meet the experts

In a career spanning over 45 years, Harvey has served in a number of academic, clinical, research, administrative, and consulting capacities with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, academia and industry to include Chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service and Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Director of Research at the Army Audiology and Speech Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Director of Audiology Research at Starkey Hearing Technologies. He currently serves as Head of Research Audiology at Lively Hearing Corporation. 

Hannah Halbreich is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Washington D.C., where she specializes in managing programs and providing counseling to individuals and families challenged by trauma, victimization, and discrimination.  Hannah has expertise in working with survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, human trafficking, and conflict-related trauma. She is presently a Trafficking Specialist at the Office on Trafficking in Persons at the Department of Health and Human Services, and she also provides individual counseling to adults with a range of social-emotional issues and diagnoses at the TrueYou Center, a mental health practice in D.C.

Brian Urban, AuD, is the President of CounselEAR and former owner of Advanced Hearing and Balance Center in Evanston, IL.  He is a Past President of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology and has presented at numerous state and national conventions on the topics of patient counseling, documentation, physician marketing, Internet security and HIPAA compliance.  In addition, he participated in the 2010 Jerger Future Leaders of Audiology Conference (JFLAC) and is an Adjunct Faculty member at Rush University.