Agenda/Events

Session Hearing Preservation Surgery  
 
Chairman Wolfgang Gstöttner
08:00 Welcome Ingeborg Hochmair
08:05 Live surgery EAS Paul Van De Heyning
09:05 Live temporal bone work Peter Roland,
Domenico Cuda, Henryk Skarzynski, Jan Kiefer
10:05 Piezosurgery: A promising new tool
for hearing implants surgery
Domenico Cuda
10:20 Live VSB surgery Vittorio Colletti
     
11:05  
     
11:35 Cochlear implant electrode inser tion
through the round window
Peter Roland
12:05 Round window approach – surgical issues Henryk Skarzynski
12:35 EAS – clinical repor ts:
The Bordeaux School experience
Jean-Pierre Bebear
12:50 EAS: The St. Thomas’ London
experience 2003-2007
Alec Fitzgerald O‘Connor
13:05 EAS: A SWOT analysis from the user’s viewpoint Paul Van Aken
     
13:15
Lunch
   
     
Session Electric Acoustic Stimulation
 
Chairman Blake Wilson
14:15 Dead regions of the cochlea Karolina Kluk
14:45 Acoustical frequency discrimination and
speech perception in noise in EAS implanted ears
Uwe Baumann
15:00 Eight months of experience with a novel speech processor
designed for combined electric acoustic stimulation
Silke Helbig
15:15 Results of par tial deafness cochlear implantation (PDCI)
in children
Artur Lorens
15:45 From electric-acoustic stimulation to
fine structure coding in cochlear implants
Peter Nopp
     
16:15
Break
   
 
Chairman Henryk Skarzynski
16:45 Spectral and temporal interactions of combined electric
and acoustic stimulation of the hearing cochlea
in cat auditory midbrain
Maike Vollmer
17:15 Psychophysical and speech perception results from EAS
patients with full, 20 and 10 mm electrode inser tions
Michael Dorman
     
17:45
Close
   

 

Session Biological Reaction of the Cochlea to Implantation  
 
Chairman Jean-Pierre Bebear
8:30 Genetics of deafness Guy Van Camp
9:00 Future therapy for hair cell regeneration vis-à-vis
the status of suppor ting cells
Shelley Batts, Yehoash Raphael
9:30 Histopathology of cochlear implantation in the human
and clinical implications
Joseph Nadol
10:00 Inflammatory issues and immune reactional
treatments
Elizabeth Keithley
     

10:30

 
 
Chairman Philippe Lefebvre
11:00 Effect of strain on hearing preservation in a mouse
model of cochlear implantation
Hinrich Staecker
11:30 Cochlear implantation: Oxidative stress, inhibition of
cell death pathways, and hearing preservation
Adrien Eshraghi
12:00 TNF-alpha blockage: A powerful pharmacological
strategy to treat inner ear disorders
Philippe Lefebvre
12:30 Round table discussion:
Mechanisms of hearing loss with CI
Moderator: Carolyn Garnham

Participants: all session speakers
     
13:00
Lunch
   
     
Session Delivery Systems And Associated Science
 
Chairman Joseph Nadol
14:00 Local cor ticosteroid application: Benefit for
hearing preservation after cochlear implantation?
Jochen Tillein, Susanne Braun
14:30 Experimental results of Dexamethasone delivery via a
cochlear implant electrode
Jan Kiefer
15:00 Semi-chronic application of Dexamethasone
from the electrode
Claude Jolly
15:30 Considerations in the intra-cochlear dosage
of Dexamethasone
Guido Reetz
15:45 Feedback session: The future of semi-chronic application
of Dexamethasone from the electrode
Carolyn Garnham
     
16:15
Break
   
Session Future Perspectives
 
Chairman Hinrich Staecker
16:45 Tinnitus treatment with cochlear implantation in unilateral
sensorineural deafness
Paul Van De Heyning
17:00 Bimodal hearing after CI in unilateral sensorineural
deafness and tinnitus
Katrien Vermeire
17:15 How we perceive sound and tinnitus, Loreta EE G and
source localization: Application for cochlear implants
Dirk De Ridder
17:45 Modulation of spiral ganglion neurite outgrowth on
cochlear implant electrodes
Dominik Brors
Stefan Hansen,
Stefan Dazert
     
18:15
Close
   

Social Events

Thursday, October 18, 2007
20:00 Welcome reception
Ramada Plaza Antwerp

Friday, October 19, 2007
20:00 Gala dinner
Salons Magnus

Saturday, October 20, 2007
20:00 Social evening
Grand Café Horta
October 19 - 20, 2007