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Preliminary program online! update 18 April 2024
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The next international HEAL 2024 conference (live) will be held from 6 to 8 June 2024 at our historic venue, the gorgeous Villa Erba Conference Center, on Lake Como in Cernobbio. This peaceful, elegant, cozy and little frequented town with all its charm will once again host our meeting.
HEAL meetings, a.k.a. the Como Conferences, have closely monitored - and contributed to - the progress of modern Audiology and Hearing Science, also influencing the development of clinical studies and practical protocols. HEAL meetings bring together experts from across disciplines and offer delegates a unique opportunity to discuss their latest research in a truly international forum.
The Scientific Program is usually composed of several parallel sessions and enriched by Satellite Events dedicated to a great variety of topical issues as well as Special Sessions and Mini-Symposia proposed and coordinated by many Organizations and Institutions active in the wide area of hearing research and hearing care.
As an example, the last HEAL 2022 Scientific Program included two mini-symposia, four special sessions and various lectures and approximately 330 Communications with Delegates representing about 45 Countries from around the world.
Topics that will be addressed at HEAL2024 include, but are not limited to:
Speech perception
Speech-in-noise testing
Self-administered hearing tests
Epidemiology
Genetic issues
Early identification – novel techniques and methods
Auditory Processing Disorders
Speech and language development
Listening effort
Cognitive decline
Quality of life and hearing loss
Computational Audiology
e- and m-health solutions
Auditory modelling
Auditory Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence applications
Data-driven hearing models
Effects of occupational and recreational noise
Tinnitus
Amplification – technologies and strategies
Implantable devices
Auditory training
Improving Hearing Care and Services
Remote Care Solutions
Intervention and Rehabilitation: strategies and methods.
Save-the-date. Come and join us for another exciting conference in Cernobbio in 2024!
Ferdi Grandori (Chair)
National Research Council of Italy - CNR-IEIIT - Institute of Electronics, Information Engineering and Telecommunications, Milan Unit based at the Dept. of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Scientific Committee
Sophia E. Kramer, PhD
at the Amsterdam UMC – location VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alessia Paglialonga, PhD
National Research Council of Italy - CNR-IEIIT - Institute of Electronics, Information Engineering and Telecommunications, Milan Unit based at the Dept. of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Precision Diagnostics and Therapy Across the Lifespan - Hearing4All
Coordinators: Birger Kollmeier (Dept. of Medical Physics and Acoustics, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universität Oldenburg, Germany) and Thomas Lenarz (Hals-Nasen-Ohrenklinik, Medizinischen Hochschule, Hannover, Germany)
Symposium - Community-Delivered Hearing Care: Bringing WHO Guidance into Practice
De Wet Swanepoel (Dept. Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria, South Africa) and Carrie Nieman (Johns Hopkins Health Care and Surgery Center, Bethesda, MD, USA)
Applications, strengths, and pitfalls of Ecological Momentary Assessment
Coordinator: EMA methods in audiology working group (Louise Burke, Klaudia Edinger Andersson, Inga Holube, Maria Iankilevitch, Lorienne Jenstad, Dina Lelic, Graham Naylor, Niels Pontoppidan, Nadja Schinkel Bielefeld, Gurjit Singh, Karolina Smeds, Barbra Timmer, Petra von Gablenz, Florian Wolters, and Yu-Hsiang Wu, Adriana Zekveld).
Coordinators: Dona Jayakody & Rob Eikelboom, Ear Science Institute Australia
Listening effort and affective responses: Exploring the multidimensional aspects of hearing
Session Coordinators: Alessia Paglialonga, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Milan, Italy; Edoardo Maria Polo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Objective measures at different stages of cochlear implantation
George Tavartkiladze, Department of Clinical Audiology, Russian medical Academy of Continuing professional Education, Moscow, Russia
Universal Hearing Screening and Intervention Programs for People with Intellectual Disability in their Live Environment - Implementation in Germany
Katrin Neumann (University Hospital Münster, University of Münster, Germany)
Keynote Lecture
The Importance of Global Partnerships for Multiple Disabilities!
Roxanna Spruyt and Karen Keyes, DeafBlind Ontario Services, Service Provider, Newmarket, Canada
John G. Casali (Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA - USA)
Extended High Frequency Hearing Loss Hiding Underneath a Normal Audiogram
Srikanta Mishra, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Last update: 18 April 2024