Nancy Tye-Murray, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO and the Chief Scientific Officer of Amptify, a digital hearing healthcare C-Corp (www.Amptify.com).  Dr. Tye-Murray directs the University’s Audiovisual Speech Perception laboratory, which has ongoing funding from the National Institutes of Health. Her research focuses on treatment plans for those who have hearing loss and on the cognitive mechanisms underlying audiovisual speech perception. She is the author ofFoundations of Aural Rehabilitation (6th Edition), an introductory text book that is used around the world, and the author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications. Prior to her move to Washington University, she was Director of Research at The Central Institute for the Deaf.