American Cochlear Implant Alliance
Board of Directors

The Board of Directors exercises all corporate powers and manages the business and affairs of the Alliance. They establish program priorities central to its core mission of sponsoring research, increasing awareness and improving access to cochlear implants through advocacy while providing oversight of all activities carried out in support of its mission.


CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Daniel M. Zeitler MD*
Neurotology & Skull Base    Surgery
Co-Director, Listen for Life Hearing Implant Center
Director, Research and Academics
Dept of Otolaryngology/HNS
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health

 


*denotes Executive
Committee member

OFFICERS

  Vice Chair --
  Allison Biever AuD*

 
Director of the Rocky
  Mountain Cochlear
  Implant Program



  Treasurer --
  Matthew L. Bush MD*
  PhD, MBA
  Professor and Chair
  Department of
  Otolaryngology
  University of Kentucky
  Medical Center

  Secretary --
  Lindsay Zombek MS,
  LSLS Cert AVT*
 
Speech Language
  Pathologist
  University Hospitals
  Cleveland Medical 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS


  Ivette Cejas PhD
 
Professor
  Director, Family
  Support Services
  Department of
  Otolaryngology
  University of Miami



  Maura Cosetti MD
 
Director, Ear Institute
  NY Eye & Ear of Mt Sinai
  Associate Professor
  Dept of Otolaryngology



 

 

  Jacob B. Hunter MD
 
Associate Professor
  Otology/Neurotology
  Division, Chief
  Department of
  Otolaryngology-Head
  and Neck Surgery
  Thomas Jefferson
  University Hospitals


 

  Kenneth H. Lee MD, PhD
 
John W. & Rhonda K.
  Pate Professor
  UT Southwestern
  Director, UT Pediatric
  Cochlear Implant Program

  Kristen Lewis AuD
 
Audiologist, Director of
  Clinical Services
  Saint Luke’s Hospital
  Midwest Ear Institute
  Kansas City, MO

  



  Charles Limb MD
 
Chief, Division of Otology,
  Neurotology & Skull Base
  Surgery Director,
  Douglas Grant Cochlear
  Implant Center
  University of California
  San Francisco
  School of Medicine

  Barbara Mellert MPH
 
Information, Technology &
  Consulting Dartmouth
  College Administrator,
  Parents of Children
  with CI FB Group


 



  Michael Scott AuD              Audiology Manager
  Dayton Children's
  Hospital





  Douglas Sladen PhD
 
Associate Professor
  Faculty of Medicine,
  School of Audiology
  and Speech Sciences
  University of British
  Columbia Vancouver,
  BC. Canada







  Brittney Sprouse AuD
 
Director, Audiology &
  Newborn Hearing
  Screening
  University of Chicago
  Medicine




 Donna L. Sorkin MA
 
Ex Officio Board Member   Executive Director







 
 
The mission of the American Cochlear Implant (ACI) Alliance is to advance access to the gift of hearing provided by cochlear implantation through research, advocacy and awareness.