Hearinghealthmatters.org "Hear Well, Live Well".C. Scot Frink, who was recently selected by Rayovac as the 2011 Hearing Professional of the Year in the U.S., has joined Hearinghealthmatters.org as a contributing editor. The blog, which was founded in April 2011, has quickly established itself as a popular online resource for anyone, whether a provider or consumer of hearing care, who shares its belief that "Hearing health matters."
Frink, who is blogging alongside the audiologist Judy Huch at Hear in Private Practice, is exceptionally well qualified to write about the rewards and challenges of running a private practice. Indeed, he literally grew up in one. His father, Norman Frink, founded Salem Audiology Clinic, Inc., in 1982, when Scot was still a boy. At the time, it was one of the first private practices in audiology in Oregon.
Scot Frink launched his career in private practice in 1994 as a dispenser, working with his father. In 2004, he was awarded his audiology degree from Portland State University.
Frink is now president of Salem Audiology Clinic, one of the Pacific Northwest's largest audiology practices. He has frequently made presentations at professional conferences, including the Oregon Hearing Society and the Washington Hearing Society. He served on the Oregon State Hearing Aid Licensing Board from 2002 to 2011.
He also spent three years as a Northwest regional sales director for Phonak. So, he understands the perspective of industry as well as that of practitioners and patients.
Frink is a supporter of Healing the Children, a nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides medical and audiology care to children in need. For several years, he has donated hundreds of hearing aids to their medical mission trips to Guatemala.
Eleventh blogger at HHM
Frink's appointment adds another prominent name in hearing care to the roster of well-known editors at Hearinghealthmatters.org.
Also posting weekly at the independent blog are Dr. Holly Hosford-Dunn, editor-in-chief;David Kirkwood, associate editor;and contributing editors Dr. Wayne Staab;K. Ray Katz;Dr. Marshall Chasin, Dr. Bob Traynor, Dr. Alan Desmond, Dr. Judy Huch, Gael Hannan, and Fred Cohen.
