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
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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
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Faculty
Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Dr. Pascal Barone, PhD
CNRS UMR 5549
Brain and Cognition Research Center
Processing Dynamics and Cortical Interactions
Toulouse University
Toulouse, France
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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
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Craig A. Buchman, MD FACS
Vice Chairman of Clinical Affairs
Chief, Division of Otology/Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery
Director, UNC Ear and Hearing Center
Chair, American Cochlear Implant Alliance Board of Directors
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Jos J. Eggermont, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
and Department of Psychology
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Johan H.M. Frijns, MD PhD
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
Chair of Center for Audiology and Hearing Implants Leiden (CAHIL)
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Leiden University Medical Centre
Leiden, The Netherlands
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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
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Douglas E.H. Hartley, MBBS DPhil FRCS (ORL-HNS)
Associate Professor in Otolaryngology, Nottingham University, UK
Research Lead, Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit & MRC Institute of Hearing Research
ENT Consultant, Department of Otolaryngology,
Queens Medical Centre and Nottingham Auditory Implant Programme
Nottingham, United Kingdom
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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
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Claude N. Jolly, PhD
Director of Electrode Development/Research & Development
MED-EL Medical Electronics
Fuerstenweg 77a
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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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
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Andrej Kral, MD PhD
Professor of Auditory Neurophysiology, Hanover Medical University
Adjunct Professor of Cognition and Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Dallas
Director, Institute of Audio Neurotechnology (VIANNA) and Department of Experimental Otology, ENT Department, Hanover Medical University
Hanover, Germany
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Diane S. Lazard, MD PhD
ENT surgeon
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Institut Arthur Vernes
and Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle
Paris, France
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Alexandre Lehmann, MEng PhD
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Adjunct Professor, Psychology Department, University of Montreal
Principal Member, Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery,
Geriatric Medicine, Mental Health, and Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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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
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Ruth Litovsky, PhD
Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, and Surgery/Otolaryngology
Director, Graduate Program in Audiology
Director, Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab, Waisman Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Manuel J. Manrique Rodriguez, MD
Consultant Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Director of Cochlear Implant Programme
Assistant Director Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
University Hospital of Navarra
Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
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Stephen O'Leary, BMedSci MBBS PhD FRACS
Chair and Head of Otolaryngology
The University of Melbourne
Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
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Edward H. Overstreet, III BS PhD
Strategic Marketing and Product Management
Oticon Medical/Neurelec
Vallauris Cedex, France
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M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, PhD
Full Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Marilyn Reed, MSc Reg. CASLPO
Audiology Practice Advisor
Baycrest
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Pascale Sandmann, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Hanover Medical School
Hanover, Germany
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Susan Scollie, PhD Reg. CASLPO
Associate Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Director, Child Amplification Laboratory
National Centre for Audiology
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
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Richard JH Smith, MD
Sterba Hearing Research Professor
Vice Chair, Department of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
Director, Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Ad F.M. Snik. PhD
Professor of Audiology
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Ernst von Wallenberg, PhD
Head of Clinical, Technical, Research & Regulatory
Cochlear Europe, Middle East and Africa
Basel, Switzerland
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Daniel D.E. Wong, PhD (IBBME, University of Toronto)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Psychology
Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
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