About Douglas Beck
Dr. Beck earned his master's degree at the University of Buffalo (1984) and his doctorate from the University of Florida (2000). His professional career began in Los Angeles at the House Ear Institute in cochlear implant research and intraoperative cranial nerve monitoring. By 1988, he was Director of Audiology at Saint Louis University. Eight years later he co-founded an audiology and hearing aid dispensing practice in St Louis. In 1999, he became Editor-In-Chief of AudiologyOnline.com, SpeechPathology.com and HealthyHearing.com. Dr. Beck joined Oticon in 2005 as Director of Professional Relations. From 2008 through 2015, Beck was Web Content Editor for the American Academy of Audiology (AAA). In 2016 he became an adjunct Professor of Communication Disorders and Sciences at State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNYAB). In 2016, he was appointed Senior Editor for Clinical Research at the Hearing Review. In 2019, he was promoted to Vice President of Academic Sciences at Oticon Inc.
Dr. Beck is among the most prolific authors in audiology with 185 publications, more than 1250 abstracts, interviews and op-eds written for the AAA (2008-2015) and Audiology Online (1999-2005) addressing a wide variety of audiology and professional topics.
