Craig Formby completed his masters clinical training in audiology at Memphis State University, his doctoral research training in communication science at the Central Institute for the Deaf, Washington University in St. Louis, and a postdoctoral research fellowship in Neurology at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Across his professional career of more than 40 years, Formby has held academic appointments at the University of Florida; the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he directed the Division of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology in the Department of Otolaryngology-HNS; the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Graduate School for the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) where he was dually appointed as an assistant dean, served as the director of audiology and the research director for the University of Maryland’s Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Center, and developed the UMB Office for Postdoctoral Scholars; and the University of Alabama, where he was appointed the university’s inaugural Distinguished Graduate Research Professor. Until his retirement from the University of Alabama in 2018 and emeritus appointment in 2019, Formby received continuous federal funding of his research beginning in 1987. His research awards have included NIH K08 and K24 career development awards, multiple R21 and R01 research awards, and a U01 phase 3 clinical trial award, which is the only definitive efficacy trial award sponsored this century by the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. He served as the Study Chair for the latter trial, which partnered academic faculty at the University of Alabama and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with clinicians at six flagship military medical centers representing the US Navy, Marines, Air Force, and the DoD, including US Army personnel. Formby’s research activities have primarily focused on basic and clinical studies of hearing and vestibular function and dysfunction, including differential diagnosis, treatment, and management of individuals with hearing loss, tinnitus, hyperacusis, and disorders of balance. He has routinely used mathematical models and computer simulations to promote the understanding of the underlying normal mechanisms and disease processes under study. Formby is a past editor for the Hearing section of the Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.