Dave is the Director of the Communication Sciences Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Current research interests include development of listening skills and their neural mechanisms in children, hearing health care delivery to underserved populations using self-administered precision solutions, and effect of impoverished and enriched communication on the developing human brain. Born and educated in Melbourne, Australia, Dave worked for over 30 years in the UK, first at the University of Oxford, then as Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham. During this time he was a visiting fellow or faculty at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Washington, Seattle, New York University, and Northwestern University. He is currently Professor of Otolaryngology and Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati, and Professor of Auditory Neuroscience at the University of Manchester, UK. In his spare time he likes bike riding, hiking (especially ‘hill walking’ in the Scottish Highlands), and cooking.