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Spotlight on a CAOHC Course Director
LT CDR David C. Byrne, MS, CCC-A David received a B.A. in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.S. in Audiology from the Pennsylvania State University, with additional graduate study in acoustics. As a Captain in the U.S. Army he was Chief of the Audiology Clinic and the Hearing Conservation Officer for the 10,000 soldier hearing conservation program at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. After three years of active duty, he became a Hearing Conservation Consultant within the Bio-Acoustics Division at the U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency, located at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. David later took a position as a Senior Consultant for Associates in Acoustics, Inc., where he was responsible for conducting engineering noise control surveys, data analysis, and design of recommendations for industrial noise control.
David has been a Research Audiologist with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for the past 10 years. Initially, he was located at the NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, where he worked on hearing loss prevention projects within the mining industry. David transferred his Army Reserve commission and entered Active Duty with the U.S. Public Health Service in 2006. He is currently stationed at the NIOSH Robert A. Taft Laboratories in Cincinnati, Ohio. His primary responsibilities include formulating and conducting both field and laboratory research involving the effects of exposure to noise.
In addition to his certification as a CAOHC Course Director, David holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and an audiology license from the State of Pennsylvania. He also served for several years as the co-chair of the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) Publications Committee and Editor of its newsletter, Spectrum.
