Dr. Mehlenbacher was a Military Police Soldier in the Army National Guard. He was deployed to Bosnia, Ground Zero NYC 9/11/01, and Iraq. He is honored to serve his fellow veterans as an Audiologist at the Durham VAHCS. He has been involved in a number of studies of brain injury at Duke as a Consulting Associate in the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. He has a small business in which he trains other audiologists how to evaluate patients with vestibular dysfunction and possible central nervous system abnormalities, consults on hearing conservation and custom in ear technologies. Dr. Mehlenbacher has served as the President of the North Carolina Audiology Association and Chair of the Government Relations Committee for the American Academy of Audiology. He is a member of the Practice Policy Advisory Committee for the American Academy of Audiology. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Speech and Hearing Association and served as the Chair of North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists. Some areas of audiology that are of particular interest to him are vestibular and balance evaluation and treatment, multidisciplinary management of TBI, blast trauma, and professional issues in the field of audiology.