Francis K. Kuk, PhD

Director
ORCA-USA, WS Audiology
lisle, Illinois

Francis Kuk, Ph.D. received his Audiology degree from the University of Iowa in 1986. He has assumed a research scientist and hearing aid clinic director position at the University of Iowa Department of Otolaryngology and a faculty position at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He has been active in the hearing aid industry since 1994 where he served committee roles in various industry associations and interacted with government bodies including the FDA. He is currently the VP of Clinical Research at ORCA-USA of WS Audiology where his primary roles include clinical research, knowledge dissemination and strategic planning. He has written and presented extensively in the area of hearing aid technology and fittings with over 200 book chapters and articles (peer and non-peer reviewed). He is the editorial consultants for several major professional journals in the field of Audiology. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Auditory Society (AAS).

Financial Disclosures: WS Audiology- Employment
Non-Financial Disclosures: I do not have any relevant non-financial relationships with anything to disclose.

Presentation(s):

• RP301 - Where You Are in a Room? Evaluating Processing Delay on the Sensitivity to Listener Location

  Friday, April 1, 2022
  7:45 AM – 8:15 AM CT

• LM315 - An All-in-One Six-Minute Speech-in-Noise Test that Also Measures Cognition and Effort

  Friday, April 1, 2022
  10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT