7:45-8:30am

8:30-8:45am

Catherine E. Carr, PhD
Biology Distinguished University Professor
University of Maryland, College Park
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Ronna Hertzano, MD PhD
Professor Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Affiliate Member - Institute for Genome Sciences
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
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Opening remarks

8:45-9:30am

Sandra Gordon-Salant, PhD
Professor and Director,
Doctoral Program in Clinical Audiology
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park
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Impact of Age-related Hearing Loss on Communication

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the attributes of the older individual that are associated with difficulty in perception.
2. Identify communication scenarios that are challenging for older people.
3. Differentiate strategies that are beneficial and not beneficial for training older listeners to improve speech recognition in challenging situations

9:30-10:15am

Larry E. Humes, PhD
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

Empowering Adults to Manage Their Hearing Problems

Learning objectives:

1. To be able to describe the prevalence of hearing difficulties among U.S. adults within the prevailing Hearing Healthcare (HHC) system.
2. To be able to describe the prevalence of hearing-aid use among U.S. adults with hearing difficulties and the resulting unmet HHC needs.
3. To be able to identify some of the barriers within the prevailing HHC system underlying unmet HHC needs and potential solutions to overcome those barriers.

10:15-10:45am

10:45-11:15

Pamela Souza, PhD
Communication Sciences and Disorders and Knowles Hearing Center
Northwestern University

Treating age-related hearing loss: Should cognitive ability be part of clinical decisions?

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the consequences of combined hearing loss and cognitive decline on communication
2. Describe how cognitive ability affects hearing aid outcomes
3. List reasons to consider cognitive ability in treatment planning

11:15-noon

Richard K. Gurgel, MD MSCI
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Section Chief and Fellowship Director, Otology, Neurotology, and Skullbase surgery,
University of Utah School of Medicine

The Hear and Know: Hearing Loss, Cognition, and Cochlear Implants in Older Adults

Learning objectives:

1. Appreciate the association between hearing loss and dementia in older adults
2. Determine cochlear implant candidacy in older adults based on frailty assessment
3. Understand the impact of cochlear implants on cognition in older adults

Noon-1pm

1-1:45pm

Lisa Cunningham, PhD
Director, Division of Intramural Research
NIH/NIDCD

Repurposing Statins to Reduce Cisplatin-Induced Hearing Loss

Learning objectives:

1. Identify clinical features of cisplatin-induced hearing loss
2. Describe the current state of therapies to reduce cisplatin-induced hearing loss
3. Identify a class of FDA-approved drugs that are associated with reduced cisplatin-induced hearing loss in humans

1:45-2:30pm

Alan G. Cheng, MD, FACS
Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor
Department of Otolaryngology-HNS
Stanford University

Re-designing aminoglycosides to reduce iatrogenic hearing loss

Learning objectives:

1. How do aminoglycosides cause hearing loss?
2. How do aminoglycosides enter the inner ear?
3. What are the clinical indications for aminoglycosides?

2:30-2:45pm

2:45-3:15pm

Ronna Hertzano, MD PhD
Professor Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Affiliate Member - Institute for Genome Sciences
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
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Noise Induced Hearing Loss - from Omics to Drug Repurposing

Learning objectives:

1. Understand the effect of noise on the inner ear
2. Understand how omics can lead to identification of candidate therapeutics
3. Understand the importance of testing drugs on subjects of both sexes

3:15-3:45pm

Meghan Drummond, PhD
Associate Director, Auditory Science
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Population-scale analysis of common and rare genetic variation associated with hearing loss in adults

Learning objectives:

1. Understand how both common and rare variants in large populations can be used to identify novel hearing loss allele associations.
2. Recognize the limitations in current datasets used for large-scale population analyses.
3. Identify opportunities for better cohort recruitment to support auditory studies.

3:45-4pm

Sandra Gordon-Salant, PhD
Professor and Director,
Doctoral Program in Clinical Audiology
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park
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Closing remarks