Tinnitus Learning Health Network™ (TLHN)
Strategic Advisors
Robert M. Traynor
David Holcomb
Michael Seid
Ed.D., MBA, FNAP
Ph.D. x 2
Ph.D., ICN/LHN
Dr. Robert M. Traynor owned and practiced audiology 46 years at Audiology Associates, Inc., Greeley, Colorado, providing diagnostic & rehabilitative treatment for hearing loss/tinnitus patients of all ages & operative monitoring for otolaryngologists & general surgeons.
He has served as an academic beginning in 1972 as Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of Audiology, University of Northern Colorado, Retiring as Associate Professor & Audiology Program Director, Colorado State University in 1993. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Audiology at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Rush University, Chicago, and Salus University (now part of Drexel University), Elkins, Park, PA.​
He serves as a host for This Week in Hearing, provides professional consulting to the hearing industry, and Forensic Audiology services.
David Holcomb, PhD, is a theorist and practitioner at the intersection of data, culture, analytics, and human behavior, with particular depth in designing and governing data-driven systems in regulated, multi-stakeholder environments, including healthcare.
Dr. Holcomb is the author of Building a Data Culture, which integrates research and real-world executive leadership to address the human, organizational, and governance challenges of large-scale data and learning systems. He has served multiple times as a C-level executive—including roles overseeing analytics and operations—and as a professor of analytics, business, and information technology, and is a frequent public speaker on data strategy, organizational change, and sustained adoption.
He holds two PhDs, in Organizational Behavior and Information Technology, and advises organizations on aligning data, operations, and executive strategies to enhance employee engagement, delight customers, improve financial results, and create lasting stakeholder value.
Michael Seid, PhD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where he conducts research in health outcomes, quality improvement, and implementation science. Trained as a behavioral and social scientist, his work focuses on how healthcare systems can reliably deliver the right care to patients over time.
Dr. Seid’s research centers on chronic health conditions and the design of collaborative learning health systems that connect patients, families, clinicians, and researchers. He has spent nearly two decades helping build and study network-based models that translate evidence into practice and support continuous improvement across complex care environments.
As a Strategic Advisor, Dr. Seid brings deep expertise in learning system architecture, governance, and improvement science. He provides a systems-level perspective on how multi-site health networks can measure outcomes, learn continuously, and achieve durable, patient-centered impact at scale.
Jeff Gordon
Ph.D. Biomedical Statistics
Jeff Gordon, PhD, is a retired professor whose career spans education, technology, and applied analytics, with longstanding appointments at the University of Cincinnati and Vanderbilt University. After earning his doctorate he contributed to IBM’s educational technology development teams, including work on the Mathematics Exploration Toolkit, a system that helped influence large-scale mathematics instruction and early models of technology-enabled learning.
At the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Gordon was a founding member of the Center for Academic Technologies, advancing faculty adoption of instructional technology across the institution. He later joined Vanderbilt University’s School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine, where he served as Professor of Biomedical Educational Informatics. His work there included developing early online clinical documentation systems, contributing to internationally used mass-casualty training platforms, and designing a distance-learning statistics curriculum for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program that consistently ranked among the school’s top courses.
Following retirement, Dr. Gordon continued to advise academic institutions, including the University of Florida in the College of Nursing DNP program, where he helped redesign the statistics curriculum using open-source tools and practice-based datasets, leading to dramatically improved student outcomes. His career reflects a sustained focus on improving how complex knowledge is taught, applied, and operationalized in real-world clinical and educational systems.
Doug Lewis
Au.D, Ph.D, J.D.
Doug Lewis brings an extremely broad, cross-disciplinary perspective spanning healthcare delivery, clinical practice, law, and organizational leadership. He serves as President and Owner of Excalibur Business Consultants/Excalibur Entertainment and Excalibur Hearing and Audiology, and is also President and CEO of Patriot Health Systems LLC and WellCare Health Systems LLC—organizations structured as integrated delivery systems. In parallel, he provides executive leadership, general counsel and compliance expertise, and works as a consulting clinical audiologist with multiple entities, including ENT practices.
His academic and professional depth is equally extensive. Doug is an active faculty member for nine universities, teaching across domains that include law and ethics, healthcare systems, clinical and administrative practice, anatomy and physiology, biopsychology, and medicine. He has also served for more than 25 years as an instructor for the International Hearing Society’s ACA and AHAP programs. A committed lifelong learner, he holds an AuD, PhD, and JD, along with multiple graduate and undergraduate degrees, and maintains licensure or professional standing across law, clinical audiology, insurance, securities analysis, and nursing home administration.
Beyond his professional work, Doug brings creativity and balance through music and fitness. He is an active musician who regularly performs with rock, jazz, blues, and reggae groups, and is the founder and performer for his band, Paradygm Shyft. This blend of analytical rigor, real-world operational experience, and creative engagement gives him a distinctive voice as a strategic advisor.
