Welcome back to the All About Audiology podcast. I’m your host Dr. Lilach Saperstein and this is a very special episode; it’s going to be our first interview episode. I’d like to introduce more voices and bring in more professionals who are in the field or who are related to audiology in some way. And also to hear some of your stories like we did in the last All About You episode. It’s really important for me that your voice is heard and for you to know that what you’re going through is helpful for other people for what they’re going through and this way we can all connect and help each other.

So I have a few things to tell you before we jump into the interview. If you haven’t gotten it already or heard about the free checklist that I created for you guys, be sure to check it out. It’s a morning and evening routine checklist for caring for a hearing aid. It’s available for free! All you have to do is go to the podcast show notes or check on my Instagram @allaboutaudiology podcast or go to allaboutaudiology.com, or any way that you would reach me, you can get to this PDF file. It has information about caring for hearing aids and how to clean them. And also I made it that if you put it into a plastic sleeve or have it laminated, you can use a dry erase marker to check off what you’ve done. Hang it near the bed or have it in the bathroom, wherever you get ready in the morning with your hearing aids.

So right before we jump into the interview, let me tell you about Dr. Hadassah Kupfer, a private practice audiologist in the Mill Basin area in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Kupfer and I went to school together; she was a few years ahead of me in school. I knew her when I was doing my undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College and we both attended the CUNY graduate center in New York for the audiology doctoral program. We had an excellent conversation that I’m going to play for you now all about ear infections, tubes, etc. The reason I reached out to my friend and colleague was because I know that she did a research capstone, kind of like a dissertation in the doctoral program, on this topic of childhood ear infections and fluid in the ears and has a lot of information and guidance for parents of young children dealing with this issue.

www.doctorkupfer.com

https://www.instagram.com/drkupfer/

www.facebook.com/lifelonghearing

Tweets by KupferDr

Dr. Kupfer has a patient-first approach and her passion for audiology and for her patients comes through in our interview. We’ll have Dr. Hadassa Kupfer’s information and links in the show notes and in the post at allaboutaudiolgy.com and if you want to visit her website, it’s www.doctorkupfer.com.

So before we start, I’m just going to make an apology. The sound quality is good but I wish it can be better.