She's a clinical audiologist who owns a private practice, Advanced Audiology Consultants, in Oak Brook, Illinois. She's the President of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences program within the College of Health Sciences at Rush University. 

Dr. Heiman is the visionary and CEO of EntreAudiology, LLC.  It was designed to help others around the world hear better through Membership program with Masterminds for Audiology practice owners that helps them collaborate and do more for their patients with better systems and ideas from the group members.

She also created the Hearing Wellness Journey, an online aural rehabilitation program for people who have hearing loss and use hearing instruments.  It is a learn-as-you-go online program that has over 40 videos that teach you more about hearing loss, strategies for hearing your best, and listening activities (lipreading, hearing fast speech, hearing speech in background noise, and hearing speech with accents). Find out more...

Additionally, Dr. Heiman created an online instructional program for Nurses, Caregivers, and Home Health aides to help them support someone with hearing loss, the Hearing Aide Certification program.

Dr. Dawn Heiman has given many lectures on various topics regarding hearing loss, hearing aids, psychosocial aspects of hearing loss, prevention of hearing loss, cochlear implants, and auditory processing disorders to various private and public groups in hospitals and civic organizations in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas. She is a recognized expert in the field of hearing health.

She is a Gold Circle Audiologist for Sensaphonics, meaning she is specially trained to take earmold impressions for musicians to create musician's custom earmolds and In-ear monitors.

She also loves to teach and supervise audiology students. Dr. Heiman has been a clinical supervisor for audiology students from Temple University, Rutgers University, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, University of Colorado, Salus University, Rush University, and Northwestern University.

"The bottom line:  I deeply care about giving as much as I can to this world and helping as many people as possible.  I believe that people of all ages and all walks of life deserve to hear their best.  I'm grateful every day for my education and the opportunities it has given me to help more people.  I do not believe only some people should receive excellent hearing care.  I have three amazing kids and two goofy dogs."