Symposium Co-Chairs
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto
Director of Research, Cochlear Implant Laboratory
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,
University of Toronto
Cochlear Americas Chair in Auditory Development
Staff Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgery
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Advisory Committee
Chief and Director, Cochlear Implant Program
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Professor, University of Toronto
Provincial Coordinator, Ontario Cochlear Implant Program
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jos J. Eggermont, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
and Department of Psychology
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Jill B. Firszt, PhD
Associate Professor
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Professor
Academic Program Director, Audiology
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
University of Michigan Health System/Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Emmanuel A.M. Mylanus, MD PhD
Otolaryngologist Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Lorne Parnes, MD FRCSC
Professor, Departments of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
and Clinical Neurological Sciences, Western University
Cochlear Implant Program Director and University Hospital Otolaryngology Site Chief
London Health Sciences Centre
London, Ontario, Canada
Program Committee
Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Sandro Burdo, MD
Consultant Otologist and Audiologist
Gruppo Otologico Piacenza
Children Hospital V.Buzzi
Milan, Italy
Lendra M. Friesen, PhD, CCC-A
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck
Surgery, University of Toronto
Director of Research, Cochlear Implant Laboratory
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
Chair of Center for Hearing, Speech, Language and Auditory Implants
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Leiden University Medical Centre
Leiden, The Netherlands
Yael Henkin, PhD
Head - Hearing, Speech, and Language Center
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer
Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication Disorders
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Adrian L. James, MA DM FRCS(ORL-HNS)
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,
University of Toronto
Staff Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgery
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Scientific Committee
Head Vestibular & Auditory Evoked Potential Lab
Assistent Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Centre for Neuroscience
Dept of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Sharon Cushing, MD MSc FRCSC
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto
Staff Otolaryngologist, Head & Neck Surgery
Director of the Cochlear Implant Program
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Norbert Dillier, PhD
Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Director of Research, Laboratory for Experimental Audiology,
University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Senior Scientist, the Hospital for Sick Children,
Neuroscience and Mental Health Program,
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
and Department of Physiology, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Andrej Kral, MD, PhD
Professor of Auditory Neurophysiology, Hanover Medical School
Adjunct Professor of Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas
Director, Institut of AudioNeurotechnology (VIANNA) and Department of Experimental Otology, ENT Department, Hanover Medical School
Hanover, Germany
Vincent Lin, MD FRCSC
Assistant Professor, Associate Scientist
Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery
Sunnybrook Research Institute
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Previous Organizers
1999 | Nottingham Steve Mason & Gerard O’Donoghue |
2001 | Lyon Lionel Collet & Eric Truy |
2003 | Ann Arbor Paul Kileny & Teresa Zwolan |
2005 | Hannover Thomas Lenarz & Rolf-Dieter Battmer |
2007 | Varese Sandro Burdo & Sergio Razza |
2010 | St. Louis Jill Firszt & Richard Chole |
2012 | Amsterdam Emmanuel Mylanus, Andy Beynon, Johan Frijns & Jeroen Briaire |
International Advisory Board
- Rolf-Dieter Battmer (Hannover, Germany)
- Sandro Burdo (Varese, Italy)
- Norbert Dillier (Zürich, Switzerland)
- Jill Firszt (St Louis, US)
- Paul Kileny (Michigan, US)
- Thomas Lenarz (Hannover, Germany)
- Steve Mason (Nottingham, UK)
- Angel Ramos (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)