Our History
In 1967, Robert Asby, then Director of the Department of Audiology at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, established the first independent Audiology practice in Pennsylvania. The practice, located in Kingston, was associated with P. John Hagan, M.D. an ear, nose and throat surgeon who was also on the staff at the Geisinger Medical Center. The focus of the practice was to provide the most comprehensive hearing health care in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The practice was joined shortly after by James F. Hora, M.D. who was also formerly on the staff at Geisinger Medical Center.
The group installed the latest in diagnostic hearing testing equipment in order to provide a series of firsts in comprehensive Audiology care in northeastern Pennsylvania. This philosophy of comprehensive, patient focused, care has continued to the present date. In 1972 as the result of the Agnes Flood, the practice moved to an office adjacent to the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. At that time, William Russin, M.D. joined the specialty practice.
Robert Asby & Associates was the first Audiology practice in N E PA to fit advanced technology hearing aids in a comprehensive Audiology and medical setting. Other firsts include the addition of Newborn Hearing testing and the establishment of a center for Auditory Evoked Response testing at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. During those growth years, Asby participated on regional, state and national audiology committees, and taught part-time at two Universities.
James Zeigler, audiologist, joined the practice in 1987 and the group became the first audiology practice to fit computer program mable hearing aids in NEPA . Zeigler was a member of the first class to graduate from Bloomsburg University in their Audiology Doctorate program in May of 2006. Dr. Zeigler is currently P resident of the Pennsylvania Academy of Audiology, and participates on numerous regional and state committees. H e also teaches part-time at Misericordia University and provides clinical supervision for doctoral students in the Bloomsburg Audiology program. Judith Johnston, audiologist, joined the practice in 1997, providing diagnostic Audiology and hearing aid services to patients of all ages. Johnston is currently enrolled in the clinical Audiology doctorate program at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.
In 2000, the Audiology practice relocated to their current locations in Kingston and Dallas with convenient parking a few steps from the building entrance.
Forty years later, Asby & Zeigler Audiology Associates continues to provide the most advanced diagnostic and personal amplification technology to benefit hearing impaired patients and their families. With more than eighty years of combined experience, the licensed audiologists at Asby & Zeigler Audiology Associates are the most experienced Audiology group in the area, currently providing services for hearing impaired individuals from birth to over 100 years of age.