Dr. Ishan Bhatt is the Director of the Audiogenomics Research Laboratory in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and MASPL – Masters of Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology from the Maharastra University of Health Science, India. He has a wide range of clinical experience working with patients across multiple age groups. He investigates the genetic basis of noise-induced hearing loss and chronic tinnitus. The objective of his research program is to design individualized prevention and precision medicine for tinnitus and hearing loss.