Dana Suskind is co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago. A professor of surgery, she is founder and director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program, and founder and director of Thirty Million Words. She received her MD at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She completed her residency in otorhinolaryngology, specializing in head and neck surgery, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at the Children’s Hospital at the Washington University School of Medicine in