Diane Lazard

Diane Lazard is an ENT surgeon in Paris, France. She also has a research background with a PhD in Neurosciences (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) on the topic of cerebral plasticity induced by post-lingual deafness and by auditory rehabilitation with a cochlear implant (fMRI and PET studies). She showed that cochlear implant outcome depended upon the reading strategies developed during the period of moderate and profound deafness. She undertook a post-doc at The Bionics Institute, Melbourne, Australia, where she continued studying predictors of cochlear-implant performance. Data from 2251 patients (multi-center collection) permitted an update from former results published 15 years ago and to test new hypotheses. Apart from her surgical activity, she is now also Scientific Advisor for a non-profitable French organization, Acting for Hearing (Agir pour l’Audition).