David Haynes is a professor in the departments of Otolaryngology, Neurosurgery and Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is the Director of the division of Neurotology wihin the department of Otolaryngology and is co-director of the multidisciplinary Skull Base Center. In addition he directs the internationally recognized Neurotology Fellowship training program and the Vanderbilt Cochlear Implant Program.,His research has appeared in leading academic journals including The Laryngoscope and Otology and Neurotology. He has hosted many international conferences including the XIV International Pediatric Cochlear Implant Conference in Nashville, TN. He also serves on the executive board of the Hearing Health Foundation, New York, New York and the American Cochlear Implant Alliance, Washington D.C.