Dr. Jane Madell is a pediatric audiologist, speech-language pathologist and LSLS auditory verbal therapist. She has been in practice for more than 50 years. She recently retired from her private practice providing consultation with families, school districts and speech and hearing programs with the goal of maximizing auditory skills for children with hearing loss and other auditory disorders. Dr. Madell was formerly Director of the Hearing and Learning Center and Co-Director of the Cochlear Implant Center at The Ear Institute, New York Eye and Ear infirmary/ Beth Israel Medical Center. Dr Madell has published 7 books, and numerous book chapters and journal articles. Her most recent books are Pediatric Audiology 3rd Edition and Pediatric Audiology Casebook, 2nd edition (Madell, Flexer, Wolfe and Schaefer), and From Listening to Language (Madell and Hewitt), All published by Thieme. She is the 2017 recipient of the Marion Downs Award for Excellence in Pediatric Audiology for the American Academy of Audiology, and of the 2021 Honors of the AGBell Association. She is the Executive Producer with Irene Taylor Brodsky of The Listening Project, a documentary, in which she interviews 15 young adults who’s hearing loss she identified when they were babies. She presents nationally and internationally on topics related to hearing loss and other auditory disorders in infants and children.