Fully Implanted Cochlear Implants: The Next Frontier in Hearing Healthcare

Hearing loss is associated with an increased risk of falls, yet hearing screening is rarely part of traditional fall prevention programs. With emerging research suggesting that hearing intervention may help reduce falls, should audiologists play a larger role in fall prevention?In this episode, Victoria Sanchez, AuD, PhD, and Michelle Arnold, AuD, PhD, associate professors at the University of South Florida, join MedAudPro Doc Talk to explore the relationship between hearing loss, balance, aging, and fall risk.Drawing on their clinical research and community partnerships, Drs. Sanchez and Arnold discuss findings from the ACHIEVE study, including a reported 27% reduction in the mean number of falls among participants receiving hearing intervention, and what these findings could mean for patient care.What You'll Hear:The Missing Link in Fall Prevention: Why hearing screening is often overlooked in fall prevention programs despite the established association between hearing loss and increased fall risk.What the ACHIEVE Study Reveals: Understanding the 27% reduction in falls observed with hearing intervention and the important questions researchers are still working to answer.Beyond Hearing and Balance: How spatial awareness, listening fatigue, physical health, and aging may interact to influence fall risk.The Value of Collaborative Care: How audiologists, physicians, physical therapists, and community health professionals can work together to identify at-risk patients and coordinate care.Turning Research Into Practice: Why screening, appropriate referrals, and closing the referral loop are essential to making fall prevention efforts more effective.The bigger question isn't simply whether hearing intervention can help reduce falls. It's how audiology can become a more integrated part of broader health and fall prevention efforts.Coming to FCOM 2026Drs. Sanchez and Arnold will present their research and practical approaches to connecting hearing healthcare with community fall prevention programs at the 30th Annual Florida Combined Otolaryngology Meeting, November 12–15, at Disney's Grand Floridian Conference Center in Orlando.Their discussion will explore emerging research, interdisciplinary partnerships, and opportunities for audiologists to contribute to fall prevention initiatives in both clinical and community settings.Who Should Listen?Audiologists, otolaryngologists, vestibular specialists, physical therapists, primary care providers, researchers, and healthcare professionals interested in healthy aging, fall prevention, and collaborative patient care.This episode is part of the MedAudPro Doc Talk FCOM Speaker Series, featuring healthcare professionals participating in FCOM 2026.Sponsored by Envoy Medical. Sponsorship does not imply endorsement of specific products or clinical recommendations.Follow @MedAudPro on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.Learn more about FCOM: https://FCOMnow.comJoin the MedAudPro Provider Community: https://medaudpro.com/join

Tinnitus can be one of the most challenging conditions audiologists encounter. Two patients may have similar hearing test results but experience tinnitus in completely different ways. So how can audiologists move beyond the audiogram to provide more effective, individualized care?In this episode, Tricia Scaglione, AuD, joins MedAudPro Doc Talk to discuss the evolving approach to tinnitus management, practical strategies for patient care, and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration.With nearly two decades of clinical experience, including 15 years at the University of Miami, where she developed a multidisciplinary tinnitus and sound sensitivities program, Dr. Scaglione shares her perspective on helping patients and building greater confidence among audiologists.What You'll Hear:Beyond the Audiogram: Why tinnitus distress doesn't always correlate with hearing test results and how that changes patient management.Evolving Treatment Strategies: How tinnitus care has moved beyond traditional masking toward individualized counseling, sound therapy, and emerging treatments.Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Why working with ENT physicians, mental health professionals, sleep specialists, and other providers can improve the patient experience.Practical Clinical Tools: How brief counseling, additional diagnostic testing, and appropriate referrals can make a difference.Building Confidence: Why audiologists don't need to be tinnitus specialists to offer meaningful guidance and help patients take the next step.Coming to FCOM 2026Dr. Scaglione will present "Tinnitus Management in 2026: A Clinical Framework for Audiology" on Friday, November 13, at the 30th Annual Florida Combined Otolaryngology Meeting. Her session will explore the updated AAO-HNS tinnitus clinical practice guidelines and offer practical tools for assessment, counseling, and patient management.Who Should Listen?Audiologists, ENT providers, tinnitus specialists, audiology students, and hearing healthcare professionals interested in improving tinnitus care.This episode is part of the MedAudPro Doc Talk FCOM Speaker Series, highlighting faculty participating in FCOM, November 12–15, 2026.Sponsored by Envoy Medical. Sponsorship does not imply endorsement of specific products or clinical recommendations.Follow @MedAudPro on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.Learn more about FCOM: https://FCOMnow.comJoin the MedAudPro Provider Community: https://medaudpro.com/join

Fully implanted cochlear implants are moving closer to the market, potentially changing how patients experience hearing and how providers approach cochlear implant care. Could eliminating the external sound processor also encourage more eligible adults to consider implantation?In this episode, Brent Lucas, CEO of Envoy Medical, joins MedAudPro Doc Talk to discuss the future of fully implanted cochlear implants, including Envoy's investigational Acclaim system, and what emerging technology could mean for patients, audiologists, and surgeons.With more than 17 years of experience in active implantable hearing devices, Brent shares his perspective on innovation, patient priorities, and the challenges of bringing new technology to market.What You'll Hear:Why CI Utilization Remains Low: Could concerns about wearing external devices be one reason eligible adults hesitate to pursue cochlear implantation?Beyond Hearing Outcomes: Why independence, lifestyle, convenience, and patient preferences deserve more attention alongside traditional clinical measures.The Potential for 24/7 Hearing: What continuous hearing could mean for nighttime safety, family responsibilities, travel, and everyday life.How Fully Implanted Technology Works: A look at Acclaim's middle ear sensor, chest-based rechargeable battery, and how its design differs from traditional cochlear implants.What's Next for the Industry: With Envoy Medical, Cochlear, and MED-EL developing fully implanted technologies, what can providers expect over the next few years?Preparing for New Patient Conversations: How emerging technology could influence candidacy counseling, referrals, reimbursement, and collaboration between audiologists and surgeons.The bigger question isn't simply whether cochlear implants can become fully implanted. It's whether these technologies could change who considers implantation and what patients expect from their hearing healthcare.Who should listen?Audiologists, otologists, neurotologists, cochlear implant teams, ENT providers, hearing healthcare professionals, researchers, and anyone interested in the future of cochlear implant care.This episode concludes the MedAudPro Doc Talk Cochlear Implant Series and launches our FCOM Speaker Series, highlighting professionals participating in the 30th Annual Florida Combined Otolaryngology Meeting, November 12–15, 2026.Important Note: Envoy Medical's Acclaim cochlear implant is investigational and is not FDA approved. This discussion is for educational purposes only. Other manufacturers' devices are discussed for context.The MedAudPro Doc Talk Cochlear Implant Series is sponsored by Envoy Medical.Follow @MedAudPro on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.Learn more about FCOM: https://FCOMnow.comJoin the MedAudPro Provider Community: https://medaudpro.com/joinAdd the FCOM session teaserClarify the episode’s sponsored status

Closing the Gap in Cochlear Implant AccessCochlear implant technology is better than ever, candidacy is expanding, and awareness is growing. So why are so many potential candidates still not reaching a cochlear implant evaluation?In this episode, we sit down with Carrie Spangler, AuD, Executive Director of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance, to talk about where the field is making progress, where access still breaks down, and what providers can do differently.Dr. Spangler brings a unique perspective to the role. She spent decades as an educational audiologist, was born with bilateral hearing loss, received her first cochlear implant in 2019, and became a bilateral recipient in 2025. Today, she leads ACI Alliance at a time when referral, reimbursement, awareness, advocacy, and patient expectations are all changing.What You'll Hear:Why Better Technology Isn’t Enough: The biggest opportunity may not be the device itself, but the systems that help patients understand, access, and move through cochlear implant care.The Awareness Problem: Why many patients still do not understand what a cochlear implant is, who may qualify, or when they should start asking questions.Making Referral Easier: How tools such as the 60/60 guideline can help community audiologists and hearing healthcare providers recognize when it may be time to refer.What Policy Has to Do With Patient Care: Why Medicare, Medicaid, insurance coverage, and reimbursement decisions directly affect what happens in the clinic.New Tools for Providers: A look at ACI Alliance resources, including a Medicaid toolkit designed to help clinicians and families navigate coverage and access.Building Better Referral Relationships: Why cochlear implant programs may need to reach outward to community audiologists, ENT practices, and other providers instead of simply waiting for patients to arrive.What Patients Are Really Worried About: Surgery, outcomes, technology, cost, and uncertainty can all influence whether someone moves forward, even when they may be a strong candidate.A Clinician and a CI Recipient: How Dr. Spangler’s own cochlear implant journey shapes the way she thinks about advocacy, counseling, continuity of care, and the importance of community.The takeaway is simple: expanding cochlear implant candidacy does not automatically expand cochlear implant access.Patients still need someone to recognize the possibility, start the conversation, answer enough questions to reduce uncertainty, and help them take the next step.For providers outside of a cochlear implant center, that may be one of the biggest opportunities to improve care.Who should listen?Audiologists, otologists, neurotologists, cochlear implant teams, ENT providers, hearing healthcare professionals, clinic leaders, educators, students, advocates, and anyone interested in improving cochlear implant awareness, referral, and access.Stay up to date with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram @MedAudPro.Want to learn more about FCOM?https://FCOMnow.comJoin the MedAudPro Provider Community:https://medaudpro.com/join

Artificial intelligence is already influencing hearing healthcare, but the biggest changes may have less to do with replacing clinicians and more to do with how patients move through the system, how data is used, and how care teams make decisions.Meet Devin McCaslin, PhD, Clinical Director of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Michigan Medicine and a professor in Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. His work sits at the intersection of audiology, vestibular care, engineering, and artificial intelligence. He and his collaborators are developing AI-supported approaches to triage, data integration, clinical decision support, and the future design of hearing healthcare.What You'll Hear:What AI Can Actually Do Today: Where artificial intelligence is already being used in healthcare, including triage, workflow efficiency, decision support, and reducing variability in how patients move through complex systems.From Models to AI Agents: Why the next step goes beyond predicting what might happen. AI agents may be able to identify patients, verify missing information, support referrals, monitor outcomes, and complete tasks across multiple systems.Finding Cochlear Implant Candidates Earlier: How structured data and AI could help identify patients who may qualify for cochlear implantation before they are lost in the referral pathway.The Learning Health System: Why McCaslin believes healthcare is moving toward systems where every patient encounter contributes data that can improve decisions for the next patient.The Data Problem: Why artificial intelligence is only as useful as the information behind it, and why audiology programs need to think differently about how they structure, capture, and control their clinical data.Building the Right Team: Why future innovation in audiology may require partnerships with AI engineers, operations engineers, biomedical engineers, and other professionals who bring completely different perspectives to longstanding clinical problems.What Happens to the Audiologist?: As AI becomes better at pattern recognition, diagnostics, and routine tasks, the audiologist's value may increasingly center on interpretation, critical thinking, counseling, communication, and helping patients make informed decisions.The Business Model Will Have to Change: Why greater efficiency does not automatically solve the question of how clinicians are compensated for the counseling, rehabilitation, and decision-making that become even more important in an AI-supported healthcare system.Preparing for What Comes Next: Why healthcare organizations that invest in people, data infrastructure, engineering resources, and internal champions may be better positioned to adapt than those waiting for new technology to simply arrive.McCaslin's message is not that AI is going to replace audiologists. It is that the infrastructure around audiology is changing quickly, and clinicians need to understand enough about these technologies to participate in shaping how they are used.For cochlear implant and medical audiology programs, that creates an important question: Are we preparing our systems, our data, and our teams for where healthcare is going, or are we still designing care around the way it has always been delivered?Who should listen?Audiologists, otologists, neurotologists, cochlear implant teams, vestibular specialists, hearing healthcare professionals, program directors, clinic managers, hospital administrators, researchers, students, and anyone interested in how artificial intelligence may change the delivery of medical audiology.Stay up to date with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram @MedAudPro.Want to learn more about FCOM?https://FCOMnow.comJoin the MedAudPro Provider Community:https://medaudpro.com/join

Cochlear implantation has advanced dramatically, but getting the right patient from hearing loss to evaluation, surgery, activation, and long-term care can still be unnecessarily complicated. As candidacy expands and demand grows, the question is not simply how to see more patients. It is how to design a smarter system around them.Meet Ashley Nassiri, MD, MBA, a fellowship-trained neurotologist and skull base surgeon at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she serves as Director of the Cochlear Implant Program. Her work examines cochlear implant access, utilization, surgical care, and new models of care delivery. With training in both medicine and business, Dr. Nassiri brings a broader perspective to how CI programs can improve access, efficiency, and outcomes.What You'll Hear:Thinking Beyond the Procedure: Why successful cochlear implant care depends on much more than what happens in the operating room.The Access Problem: Why cochlear implant utilization remains low despite broader candidacy and greater awareness, and where patients can get lost along the way.Rethinking the Traditional Pathway: How long-standing workflows may create unnecessary delays, visits, and barriers for patients.Designing Care Around the Patient: Why programs should evaluate which parts of the pathway truly require separate appointments and which can be coordinated differently.New Models of Care: What same-day consultation and surgery, telemedicine, remote programming, and digital education can teach us about improving CI delivery.Using the Right Resource at the Right Time: Why every part of CI care does not need to happen in the same place, with the same provider, or through the same type of visit.The Surgeon’s Role in System Design: Why physicians need to think beyond surgery and understand the operational barriers that affect whether patients reach implantation and receive appropriate follow-up.Technology Is Only Part of the Answer: Why remote tools can improve access, but only when they are part of a thoughtful clinical model.Measuring What Matters: Why programs should look beyond visit volume and focus on patient experience, access, clinical outcomes, and the use of limited healthcare resources.Dr. Nassiri makes the case for viewing cochlear implant care as one connected system rather than a series of individual appointments. Improving access does not mean sacrificing quality or simply asking clinicians to work faster. It means identifying where the current pathway creates friction and redesigning care more intentionally.Who should listen?Audiologists, otologists, neurotologists, cochlear implant teams, hearing healthcare professionals, program directors, clinic managers, hospital administrators, private practice owners, students, residents, fellows, researchers, and anyone working to improve access and outcomes in cochlear implant care.If your CI program is growing or operating largely the same way it has for years, this episode asks an important question: Are we optimizing individual parts of cochlear implant care, or are we designing a better system from beginning to end?Stay up to date with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram @MedAudPro.Want to learn more about FCOM?https://FCOMnow.comJoin the MedAudPro Provider Community:https://medaudpro.com/joinThis episode is sponsored by Envoy Medical.

For years, cochlear implant programs have relied on established protocols for candidacy evaluations, programming, and long-term follow-up. But national data now show wide variation in how that care is delivered. So what should every clinic standardize, and where should clinicians retain the flexibility to respond to individual patients?Meet Meredith Holcomb, AuD, Professor and Director of the Hearing Implant Program at the University of Miami and past chair of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance. Dr. Holcomb has led a major redesign of cochlear implant care at Miami, including a de-escalated postoperative protocol, fewer routine visits for established adult CI users, and greater use of remote care and industry support. She also co-authored a national survey revealing how widely CI audiology practices vary across institutions, work settings, and patient populations.What You'll Hear:The Standardization Question: Why cochlear implant care needs a clear minimum standard without forcing every patient, clinician, and program into the same rigid workflow.Changing an Established Program: How Dr. Holcomb introduced new care models, earned team support, and used feedback and data to guide the process.Fewer Visits, Comparable Outcomes: What happened when the University of Miami reduced routine postoperative appointments and stopped automatically scheduling annual visits for stable adult CI users.The Real Cost of Routine Follow-Up: How repeated appointments can require patients to miss work, remove children from school, arrange transportation or childcare, and travel for visits that may not provide meaningful clinical value.What the National Data Revealed: Why some patients wait two weeks for a cochlear implant evaluation while others wait as long as six months, and how access, staffing, equipment, and clinical capabilities differ across programs.Personalizing the Care Pathway: Why older adults, patients with technology challenges, and people who are not progressing as expected may need additional support, even when most stable patients can follow a reduced schedule.The “More Is Better” Myth: Why some patients associate more appointments with better care, even when additional programming does not improve outcomes.Using the Entire Care Team: How telehealth, remote programming, manufacturer representatives, coordinators, and support staff can expand care without placing every responsibility on the audiologist.Finding the Root Cause: Why programs should identify their most important access or workflow problem before changing protocols or investing limited resources.Protecting Evidence-Based Care: Why efficiency cannot mean forcing complex CI appointments into unrealistic time slots that prevent audiologists from providing appropriate care.Dr. Holcomb makes the case that the future of cochlear implant care is not complete uniformity. It is a stronger foundation of evidence-based standards, combined with enough flexibility to account for patient needs, local resources, geography, language, technology, and clinical setting.Who should listen?Audiologists, otologists, neurotologists, cochlear implant teams, hearing healthcare professionals, program directors, clinic managers, hospital administrators, private practice owners, students, residents, fellows, researchers, and anyone responsible for improving access, efficiency, and outcomes in hearing implant care.If your clinic is relying on the same follow-up schedule for every patient, this episode asks an important question: Which parts of the care pathway are truly necessary, and which are simply being continued because that is how they have always been done?Stay up to date with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram @MedAudPro.Want to learn more about FCOM?https://FCOMnow.comJoin the MedAudPro Provider Community:https://medaudpro.com/joinThis episode is sponsored by Envoy Medical.

For decades, cochlear implant programs have followed the same basic appointment schedule. Activation, one week, one month, three months, six months, nine months, one year. But what if that schedule is based more on tradition than evidenceMeet René Gifford, PhD, Chief of Audiology and Research at Hearts for Hearing and one of the most respected voices in cochlear implant audiology. As a leader in the development of the Cochlear Care Consensus, Dr. Gifford is helping challenge long-standing assumptions about programming, follow-up care, remote services, and how audiologists use their time. Her work points toward a more efficient, evidence-based model that improves access without sacrificing outcomes.What You'll Hear:The Follow-Up Schedule Nobody Questioned: How a clinical trial protocol from the 1990s became the standard model for cochlear implant follow-up and why the evidence no longer supports many of those routine visits.The Cochlear Care Consensus: How a multidisciplinary group with more than 200 years of combined cochlear implant experience reviewed the research and developed a new framework for more consistent, efficient, and patient-centered care. Are We Seeing Patients Too Often? Why many stable cochlear implant patients may not need repeated programming appointments and how unnecessary follow-ups can create barriers for both patients and clinics.Remote Care’s Untapped Potential: Why remote programming and support remain underused despite being available across all three major cochlear implant systems, and how these tools can improve convenience, efficiency, and access.The Institutional Inertia Problem: How reimbursement, productivity expectations, state licensure, hospital policies, and traditional workflows can prevent clinics from adopting better models of care.Making Room for the Patients Still Waiting: Why programs cannot continue filling schedules with patients who are already doing well while new candidates wait months for evaluations and treatment.Programming for Audibility from Day One: How objective measures, evidence-based programming, and remote support can help patients reach strong outcomes faster without relying on repeated progressive mapping appointments.Education Is the Real Value: Why the future of audiology depends less on dispensing technology and more on clinical expertise, counseling, hearing health education, and helping patients understand how hearing affects their lives.Working at the Top of Your License: How assistants, techs, automated testing, apps, and new care models should allow audiologists to spend more time interpreting results, making recommendations, and managing complex patients.Dr. Gifford challenges one of the most deeply rooted habits in hearing care: bringing patients back simply because that is how it has always been done. Instead, she argues that every appointment should have a clear clinical purpose, be supported by evidence, and contribute meaningfully to the patient’s outcome.Who should listen?Audiologists, otologists, neurotologists, cochlear implant teams, hearing healthcare professionals, program directors, clinic managers, hospital administrators, students, residents, fellows, researchers, and anyone responsible for improving access, workflow, and patient outcomes in hearing healthcare.If your clinic has a months-long evaluation backlog while stable patients continue returning for routine appointments, this episode asks an important question: Are you delivering the care patients need, or simply repeating the schedule you were taught?Stay up to date with us:LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram @MedAudProWant to learn more about FCOM? ⁠https://FCOMnow.com⁠Join the MedAudPro Provider Community for free access to behind-the-password content and connect with providers practicing at the top of their game: ⁠https://medaudpro.com/joinThis episode issponsored by Envoy Medical.

For decades, cochlear implant success has been measured by speech scores. But what if those numbers don't tell the whole story?Meet Teddy McRackan, MD, neurotologist at the Medical University of South Carolina and one of the leading researchers redefining how cochlear implant outcomes are measured. As the developer of the CIQOL (Cochlear Implant Quality of Life) framework, digital platform, and the first national cochlear implant data repository, Dr. McRackan is helping shift the conversation from how patients perform in the sound booth to how they actually live with their cochlear implant.What You'll Hear:Beyond the Speech Score: Why traditional speech recognition testing often has surprisingly little correlation with how patients communicate, socialize, and experience life outside the clinic.The Quality of Life Revolution: How patient-reported outcomes are changing the way clinicians evaluate cochlear implant success and why quality of life may be the outcome that matters most.A Better Way to Counsel Patients: Why nearly one-third of patients who are recommended for cochlear implantation never move forward, and how functional outcome modeling can help patients make more informed decisions.Predicting Real-World Success: How new prediction models use quality-of-life data to estimate which patients are most likely to experience meaningful improvement after cochlear implantation.The CIQOL Digital Platform: A look at the new clinician dashboard that collects patient-reported outcomes before surgery, tracks progress over time, and brings meaningful data directly into the clinical workflow.Building the First National CI Data Repository: Why the field needs thousands of patients, not hundreds, to truly understand cochlear implant outcomes and how a national prospective database could transform research, prediction models, and patient care.Dr. McRackan challenges one of the longest-standing assumptions in cochlear implant care: that a speech recognition score alone can define success. Instead, he argues that understanding how patients function in everyday life, their communication, listening effort, social participation, emotional well-being, and overall quality of life, should be central to both counseling and long-term care.Who should listen?Audiologists, otologists, neurotologists, cochlear implant teams, hearing healthcare professionals, researchers, program directors, students, residents, fellows, healthcare administrators, and anyone interested in the future of outcome measurement and patient-centered cochlear implant care.If you've ever had a patient with modest speech scores who tells you their cochlear implant changed their life, or a patient with excellent scores who still struggles, this episode explains why both experiences can be true and how the next generation of cochlear implant care will measure what really matters.Stay up to date with us: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram @MedAudProWant to learn more about FCOM? https://FCOMnow.comJoin the MedAudPro Provider Community for free access to behind-the-password content and connect with providers practicing at the top of their game:https://medaudpro.com/joinThis episode is sponsored by Envoy Medical.

What happens when the cochlear implant field starts moving faster than the traditional care model?In this episode of the CI Report, a special series from Doc Talk by MedAudPro, Dr. Susan Good is joined by Dr. Camille Dunn and Dr. Dan Zeitler for a post-meeting download from two major cochlear implant meetings: ACIA in Chicago and the 18th International Conference on Cochlear Implants in Warsaw, Poland.Dr. Dunn brings the audiology perspective from both meetings, while Dr. Zeitler, Chair of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance, offers insight from the physician and leadership side of the field.Together, they unpack what felt new, what is gaining momentum, and what these conversations tell us about where cochlear implant care is heading next.What You’ll Hear:The Energy at ACIA: Why this year’s meeting felt different, with more practical takeaways, broader engagement, and renewed momentum across the fieldFrom Research to Real-World Practice: How programming, mapping, follow-up models, and patient-reported outcomes are becoming more central to clinical careA More Patient-Centered Model: Why cochlear implant care is moving away from rigid protocols and toward individualized follow-up, activation timing, programming, and outcome measurementThe Rise of Remote Care and Telehealth: How new tools may help reduce unnecessary clinic visits while preserving strong patient outcomesProgramming as a Clinical Priority: Why practical programming education drew major interest and what clinicians are looking to bring back to their own clinicsFully Implantable Cochlear Implants: What the field is watching and what questions remainAI in Programming and Rehab: How artificial intelligence may shape oral rehabilitation, programming support, personalization, and future outcome improvementBeyond Speech Scores: Why quality of life, psychosocial well-being, listening effort, and patient-reported outcomes are becoming increasingly important measures of successHearing Loss as a Societal Issue: Why the field may need to shift the conversation from hearing loss as an individual problem to a public health and societal challengeDr. Dunn and Dr. Zeitler offer a practical look at the trends shaping cochlear implant care, from fully implantable systems and AI to follow-up models, programming strategies, and the growing importance of personalized care.Who should listen?Audiologists, otolaryngologists, neurotologists, cochlear implant teams, hearing healthcare professionals, students, residents, fellows, researchers, healthcare administrators, industry partners, and anyone interested in where cochlear implant care is heading.If you have ever wondered what leaders in the field are talking about behind the scenes, what new ideas are starting to influence clinical care, or how cochlear implant medicine is evolving beyond traditional models, this episode offers a valuable look at what is coming next.Stay up to date with us: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram @MedAudProWant to learn more about FCOM? ⁠https://FCOMnow.com⁠Join the MedAudPro Provider Community for free access to behind-the-password content and connect with providers practicing at the top of their game: ⁠https://medaudpro.com/joinThis episode is sponsored by Envoy Medical.