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Schedule Overview*
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

8:00am – 11:00am     Breakfast Symposia

11:30am – 2:30pm     Lunch Symposia

12:00pm – 7:00pm     Registration Open

3:00pm – 6:00pm       Afternoon Symposia


Thursday, June 18, 2009

7:00am – 8:25am      Breakfast Satellite Symposia

7:00am – 6:15pm      Registration Open

8:30am – 6:00pm      Exhibits Open

8:30am - 10:15am     Invited lecturer and panel discussion on implantation of the                               very young child

10:15am – 10:45am   Refreshment Break

10:45am – 12:30pm   Contributed talks on early identification, early intervention,
                              candidacy and diagnosis,surgical issues in the very young                               child, medical issues(anesthesia, meningitis vaccination),                               amplification

12:30pm – 2:00pm     Lunch with Exhibitors and Poster Presentations

2:00pm – 3:30pm      Contributed talks and poster presentations

3:30pm – 4:00pm      Refreshment Break

4:00pm – 6:00pm      Contributed talks and panel discussions

* Invited lecturer: Richard J.H. Smith, MD, Genetic Screening to Establish Deafness Etiology. Access to care issues, reaching underserved populations, clinic capacity/best practices, device mapping, auditory neuropathy


Friday, June 19, 2009

7:00am – 8:25am      Breakfast Satellite Symposia

7:00am – 6:15pm      Registration Open

8:30am – 6:00pm      Exhibits Open

8:30am - 10:15am     Invited lectures and panel discussion on bilateral implantation                               in children

10:15am – 10:45am   Refreshment Break

10:45am - 12:30pm   Contributed talks and panel discussions on multiple                               handicapped child, longitudinal outcomes (auditory, speech                               perception, language development, psychoacoustical ability),                               implant fitting (unilateral with and without contralateral                               hearing aid, and bilateral cochlear implant)

12:30pm – 2:00pm     Lunch with Exhibitors and Poster Presentations

2:00pm – 6:00pm      Contributed talks and panel discussions on community                               outreach, bilateral implantation, surgical issues in bilateral                               implantation, habilitation management of device                               implantationfailure/reimplantation, auditory brainstem                               implant,implantation early family intervention,                               cost/benefit

3:30pm – 4:00pm      Refreshment Break

Friday Evening Reception Supported by an Educational Grant from Advance Bionics, Cochlear Americas, and MED-EL

Saturday June 20, 2009

7:00am – 8:25am      Breakfast Satellite Symposia

7:00am – 12:00pm     Registration Open

8:30am – 12:00pm     Exhibits Open

8:30am - 10:15am     Invited speakers and panel for Residual hearing and neural                               preservation

10:15am – 10:45am   Refreshment Break

10:45am - 12:30pm   Contributed talks and panel discussions on music perception,                               programming strategy development, device reliability,                               electro-acoustic stimulation, device reliability/reimplantation,                               future developments and tissue engineering


*Schedule subject to change