Introductory lectures

Thirty years of IAPA - Dafydd Stephens (UK)

Audiology and phoniatrics: Vision from Mexico - Pedro Berruecos (Mexico)

Keynote lectures

Cochlear amplification and somatic vs stereocilial force debate - Jonathan Ashmore (UK)

Regeneration medicine for inner ear diseases - Juichi Ito (Japan)

Inner ear homeostasis and intratympanic pharmacological intervention - Mohamed Hamid (USA)

Round table "Diagnostics and early rehabilitation of hearing impaired children"

Session co-organized with the Polish Society of Audiology and Phoniatrics

Moderator: Philippe Lefebvre (Belgium)

Topics

1. Infant Audiological Screening - Pedro Berruecos (Mexico)
2. Genetic screening - Alessandro Martini (Italy)
3. Diagnostic Audiology - Elina Mäki-Torkko (Sweden)
4. Large Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome - Mohamed Hamid (USA)
5. New auditory imaging techniques evaluating pofound hearing loss: fMRI&DTI - Sand-Heun Lee (Korea)
6. Considering a cochlear implant - Kazimierz Niemczyk (Poland)
7. Early prelingual auditory development after intervention - Sigfrid Soli (USA)
8. Long term outcomes after early cochlear implantation - Seung Ha Oh (Korea)

Structured Session I "Hearing and communication"

Session co-organized with the Phoniatric Section of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Chairpersons - Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen (Germany), Bozena Wiskirska-Woznica (Poland)

1. Central auditory processing in children - behavioral and electrophysiologic evaluation - Eliane Schochat (Brazil)
2. Communication assessment of deaf children: a phoniatric perspective - Antonio Schindler (Italy)
3. Training of communication skills of parents of hearing-impaired infants and toddlers - Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen (Germany)
4. Suprasegmental analysis for voice assessment of hearing-impaired patients - Bozena Woznica-Wiskirska (Poland)

Structured Session II "Hearing screening and intervention in the elderly"

Session supported by the „AHEAD III" EC project "Assessment of hearing in the elderly: Aging and degeneration - integration through immediate intervention (Grant Agreement No 200835)

1. Deriving human audiometric phenotype in age-related hearing loss from animal models - Judy Dubno (USA)
2. Validated measures of functional hearing ability to screen individuals for hearing-critical jobs - Sigfrid Soli (USA)
3. Auditory rehabilitation program for the elderly - Ieda Chaves Pacheco Russo (Brazil)
4. Quality of life in the elderly with hearing impairment - Nadia Kamal (Egypt)
5. AHEAD III Project achievements and consensuses - Ferdinando Grandori (Italy)

Structured Session III "New concepts in neurootologic evaluation"
Chairpersons - Henryk Kazmierczak (Poland), Mohamed Hamid (USA)

1. New methods in vestibular assessment - Erik Ulmer (France)
2. Eccentric rotation utricular testing and posturography in Linkoping, Sweden - Torbjörn Ledin (Sweden)
3. Neuroototologic examination and differential diagnosis in children - Gottfried Aust (Germany)
4. CT and MRI findings in cochlear implanted patients - Bea Kovacsovics (Sweden)
5. The utility of qantitative EEG in tinnitus patients - Katarzyna Pawlak-Osinska (Poland)

Structured Session IV "Noise-induced hearing loss prevention"

Session supported by the European Social Funds in Poland within HUMAN CAPITAL Operational Programme National Strategic Framework (NSRF) (project No WND-POKL.02.03.01-00-001/08)

1. The role of oxidative stress in noise-induced hearing loss - Gaetano Paludetti (Italy)
2. Exacerbation of noise-induced hearing loss by co-exposure to workplace chemicals - Mariola Sliwinska-Kowalska (Poland)
3. Audiometric testing component of hearing conservation programs - Peter Rabinowitz (USA)

Coffee break

1. Risky Business: can OAEs determine increased susceptibility to noise? - Lynne Marshall (USA)
2. Hearing conservation programs in South Africa - past, present and future - Anita Edwards (South Africa)
3. Treatment for acoustic trauma - Donald Henderson (USA)

Session co-organized with the Audiological Section of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Chairpersons - Sigfrid Soli (USA), Henryk Skarzynski (Poland)

1. Osseointegrated implants - the use in treatment of conductive and mixed hearing loss and single-sided deafness - Sigfrid Soli (USA)
2. Cochlear implants in partial deafness - Henryk Skarzynski (Poland)
3. Treatment with Auditory Brainstem Implants - surgery and indications - Helge Rask-Andersen (Sweden)
4. Local drug delivery system for treatment of sensorineural hearing loss - Juichi Ito (Japan)

Structured Session VI "Advances in audiological diagnostics"

Chairperson: José Juan Barajas de Prat (Spain)

1. DPOAEs measured as vibration of the umbo: Possibilities for differential diagnosis of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss - Anthony Gummer (Germany)
2. Influence of low- and ultrahigh-frequency hearing thresholds on distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs): An attempt to separate DPOAE generation mechanisms - Jacek Smurzyński (USA)
3. Hearing threshold estimation using concurrent measurement of DPOAEs and ASSRs - Thomas Janssen (Germany)

Coffee break

1. TT-ECochG recorded at high rate stimulation (100-1000/s) in patients with cochlear and retrocochlear hearing loss - Krzysztof Morawski (Poland)
2. Auditory Steady State Responses (ASSR) in audiological diagnostics - Sang-Heun Lee (Korea)
3. Loudness and auditory steady state responses - José Juan Barajas de Prat (Spain)

Structured Session VII "Audiovestibular manifestation of systemic diseases"

Chairperson - Linda Luxon (UK)

1. Audiovestibular manifestations of inherited disease - Ewa Raglan (UK)
2. Audiovestibular manifestations of vascular disease - Louisa Murdin (UK)
3. Audiovestibular manifestations of autoimmune disease - Charlotte Agrup (UK)

Coffee break

1. Audiovestibular manifestations of neurological disease - Rosalyn Davies (UK)
2. Audiovestibular manifestations of neoplastic disease - Doris Bamiou (UK)
3. Audiovestibular manifestations of psychological disease - Linda Luxon (UK)