Symposium Co-Chairs

Karen A. Gordon, PhD RegCASPLO CCC-A
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
Blake C. Papsin, MD MSc FRCSC FACS FAAP
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

Joseph M. Chen, MD
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

Paul R. Kileny, PhD
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

Carolyn J. Brown, PhD CCC-A
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

Johan H.M. Frijns, MD PhD
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

Andy J. Beynon, PhD
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

Robert V. Harrison, PhD DSc
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)

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