A Eliot Shearer

Assistant Professor

MD, PhD, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Attending Surgeon, Department of Otolaryngology & Communication Enhancement, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Latest Contribution

Graphic showing proposed comprehensive newborn hearing screening.

Genetics and the newborn hearing screen: the future is now

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic

Eliot Shearer shares the progress being made with newborn hearing screening 60 years on from where it started, and future directions for identifying hearing loss using physiologic, genetic and cCMV screening. Newborn screening had its birth in the early 1960s,...