RightEar
For Audiologists & ENT Clinics
RightEar is a direct-to-consumer hearing-care brand run by nine licensed audiologists and two former Bose audio engineers. We sit downstream of clinical practice — never in front of it. The page below explains how a partnership actually works, who you’ll be working with, and what we send clinics that want to evaluate our devices.
The credential band
A short footnote, not a brochure. Every figure below is sourced from our 2025 internal audit and reconciles with public filings. Clinics are welcome to request the underlying methodology document from our clinical team.
Featured in Consumer Reports (May 2024), Forbes Health (2024), The Wall Street Journal “Future of Hearing Care” (March 2025), and Wired’s Best Hearing Tech of 2025. Six FDA-cleared Class II medical device listings as of January 2026.
The clinical bench
These four are the clinicians who take partnership calls, review fittings, and sign off on every white-label configuration. The remaining five sit on our remote-tuning desk and handle ongoing patient care.
Director of Audiology · Co-founder
AuD, University of Iowa · 18 years clinical · Former lead audiologist, Massachusetts Eye & Ear · Specialty: adult aural rehabilitation and OTC-channel clinical governance.
“I left the clinic because I was tired of telling patients they couldn’t afford the device I’d just fitted. RightEar is the answer I wish I’d had then.”
Senior Audiologist · Partnerships Lead
AuD, Vanderbilt · 14 years clinical · Previously director of audiology at a 12-clinic ENT group in Atlanta · Specialty: clinic-network integration and referral-program design.
“My job on partnership calls is to say ‘no’ to anything that would pull a patient out of a clinical relationship. That happens more often than you’d think.”
Audiologist · Validation Lead
AuD, Northwestern · 11 years clinical · Authored the RightFit smartphone-audiometry validation study · Specialty: validation methodology and clinical-outcomes measurement.
“Every ±3 dB claim we publish is mine. If a clinic partner asks for the raw data, I send it the same day.”
Audiologist · Tinnitus Program
AuD, University of Florida · 26 years clinical · Co-investigator on the original CES 2025 Innovation Award application for the RightEar Pulse Pro · Specialty: tinnitus management and pediatric-to-adult transition care.
“Tinnitus work is patience work. We built the Pulse Pro so that the device never oversells what sound therapy can do.”
Five additional remote-tuning audiologists staff our patient line seven days a week. Full roster, specializations, and licensure states available on request to verified clinic partners.
Partnership pathways
Most partner clinics self-identify with one of these three models within the first ten minutes of a discovery call. Pick the one that mirrors how your practice already operates; we’ll do the rest of the configuration work.
Program A · Wholesale supply
For independent audiology practices and ENT clinics that want to dispense our hardware at the chair, billed under their own NPI.
Best fit: solo and small-group audiology practices that already stock 2–3 device lines and want a fourth at a different price tier.
Program B · Referral partnership
For clinics that prefer to keep their dispensing rooms focused on complex fittings, while routing appropriate mild-to-moderate patients to RightEar with a structured handoff.
Best fit: ENT groups and audiology clinics whose dispensing rooms are full; also large VA and academic audiology programs.
Program C · White-label co-branding
For larger clinic networks, hospital systems, and audiology schools that want RightEar hardware shipped under their own brand — a true private-label program, not a reseller arrangement.
Best fit: hospital systems, audiology schools, and regional clinic networks with an in-house audiology director.
Mission-driven work
RightEar donates 1% of every sale — not 1% of profit, but of gross revenue — to two organizations whose work we consider adjacent to our own. The partnerships are structured, audited, and disclosed in our annual report; we name them here because they are part of the brand’s clinical identity, not its marketing veneer.
The first is the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing (NBASLH). Across the United States, hearing-aid adoption among Black adults aged 65+ trails national averages by roughly seven percentage points, a gap that has held for two decades and that the field has not yet closed. NBASLH’s community-audiology program — a network of culturally competent screening events, mobile clinics, and clinician-training pipelines — is the most deliberate response we have found. Our contribution funds four of their regional community-screening weekends per year and underwrites continuing-education scholarships for nine audiologists-in-training annually.
The second is the Hearing Health Foundation, the country’s largest private funder of hearing-research grants. Our contribution is restricted to their emerging-researchers track, which supports postdoctoral work on hair-cell regeneration, central auditory processing, and tinnitus mechanisms — the questions whose answers will shape what an “over-the-counter” device is capable of in 2035. We do not direct the science; we pay for the early-career scientists to do it.
Both relationships are governed by written agreements, reviewed annually by our clinical leadership, and disclosed in our annual impact report. We mention them because clinicians who partner with us tend to ask, and because the answer matters more than the pitch.
— Dr. Lena Park, AuD, CCC-A, on behalf of the RightEar clinical team, January 2026
Clinician resource shelf
Three real documents, written for working clinicians and reviewed by our advisory panel. Request any of them via the clinical desk; printed copies ship same-day for clinic partners within the continental U.S.
Reference document · 28 pages
A side-by-side methodology paper covering 1,247 paired fittings across 14 partner clinics, with raw deviation plots, frequency-specific error bars, and a discussion section addressing the common clinic objections. The document is intended to be read by a clinical director in 25 minutes and then passed around a department meeting.
Protocol document · 16 pages
A four-visit fitting protocol for clinics dispensing our hardware under Program A or C. Includes the in-clinic pre-fit workup, the 3-minute RightFit verification step, the 14-day check-in cadence, and the 90-day outcome measurement using the HHIE-S hearing-handicap screening.
Validation paper · 11 pages
The validation paper behind our headline outcome figure: a 41% average reduction in HHIE-S hearing-handicap scores after 90 days of use, drawn from a self-reported cohort of 3,810 customers across all 50 states. Includes methodology, response-rate disclosures, and the questionnaire in full.