Sharon Parmet is Executive Director of the American Hearing Research Foundation. She attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where she majored in English and biology, and went on to earn her master’s degree in scientific journalism from Boston University.

Her writing has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Popular Science, MUSE, and Outcry. Parmet is also an active artist and shows her work in many Chicago galleries.