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

  Andrea Warner-Czyz PhD* 
  
Associate Professor
  University of Texas at
  Dallas Callier Center for
  Communication Disorders

 


*denotes Executive
Committee member
FY2018-2019

OFFICERS

  Vice Chair --
  Daniel M. Zeitler MD
  Co-Director Listen for Life
  Center and CI program
  Virginia Mason     Franciscan Health



  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


  Allison Biever AuD    Director of the Rocky
  Mountain Cochlear
  Implant Program



  Amy Lynn Birath AuD,
  LSLS Cert. AVEd

 
Speech Language
  Pathologist Coordinator of
  Speech- Language
  Pathology
  The Moog Center for Deaf
  Education


 

 

  Kevin Brown MD, PhD
  University of North      Carolina Ear and Hearing    Center

 

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

 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


 



  Michael Scott AuD            Audiology Manager
  Dayton Children's
  Hospital




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







  Brittney Sprouse AuD,
  PASC

  
Director, Audiology and
  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.