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Thursday, 13th April 2023 | 07:30 - 19:00
| Time | Room 1 |
|---|---|
| from 7:30 | Registration |
| 08:30-11:05 | Cochlear Implant Future Developments (Chair: Prof. Thomas Lenarz) |
| 08:30-08:45 | Overview by Prof. Thomas Lenarz, Hannover Medical School |
| 08:45-09:15 | Cochlear implant after-care: the emerging role of implant-derived objective measures (Prof. Stephen O’Leary, University of Melbourne, Australia) |
| 09:15-09:45 | Importance of Preserving Low-Frequency Acoustic Hearing: Central Auditory Processing (Prof. Bruce Gantz, University of Iowa, USA) |
| 09:45-10:15 | Totally implantable cochlear implant (Totally implantable cochlear implant) |
| 10:15-10:45 | Cochleo-Vestibular Implants (Electrical stimulation of the Otolith Organs) (Prof. Manuel Manrique Rodrígez, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Spain) |
| 10:45-11:05 | Discussion |
| 11:05-11:30 | Coffee break |
| Time | Room 1 |
|---|---|
| 11:30-13:35 | Advanced Diagnostics (Chair: Prof. Anke Lesinski-Schiedat, Hannover Medical School) |
| 11:30-11:45 | Overview by Prof. Athanasia Warnecke, Hannover Medical School |
| 11:45-12:15 | Optical Coherence Tomography for Image-guided Cochlear Implantation and diagnostics: a near future? (Prof. Nicolas Verhaert, UZ Leuven, Belgium) |
| 12:15-12:30 | Functional and molecular diagnostics of the auditory system with PET including new perspectives from translational research (Prof. Georg Berding, Hannover Medical School) |
| 12:30-12:45 | Audiological Diagnostics supported by Machine Learning and auditory models (Prof. Birger Kollmeier, University of Oldenburg, Germany) |
| 12:45-13:15 | Auditory neuropathy (Prof. Hung Thai-Van, Hôpital Edouard Herriot Lyon, France) |
| 13:15-13:35 | Discussion |
| 13:35-14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30-19:00 | Advanced Implants: drug delivery, regeneration, gene therapy (Chairs: Prof. Athanasia Warnecke, Hannover Medical School Prof. Marcelo Rivolta, University of Sheffi eld, UK) |
| 14:30-14:45 | Overview by Prof. Theodor Doll, Hannover Medical School |
| 14:45-15:15 | Regeneration and biology in the inner ear: input of human induced pluripotent stem cells (Regeneration and biology in the inner ear: input of human induced pluripotent stem cells) |
| Time | Room 2 |
|---|---|
| 11:30-13:35 | Individualized, Adaptive Implants And Additive Manufacturing Technologies (Chair: PD Verena Scheper Ph.D.) |
| 11:30-11:45 | Overview by Prof. Theodor Doll, Hannover Medical School |
| 11:45-12:15 | Navigation of magnetic micro-robots (Prof. Thorsten Buzug, Fraunhofer IMTE, Germany) |
| 12:15-12:45 | 3D patterning for individualized implantable MEMS (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hoc Khiem Trieu, Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany) |
| 12:45-13:15 | Patient-individualized drug-delivering Implants in Otorhinolaryngology (PD Verena Scheper, Hannover Medical School) |
| 13:15-13:35 | Discussion |
| 13:35-14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30-19:00 | Robotics and computer-assisted technologies for precision surgery (Chair: Samuel John, Hannover Medical School) |
| 14:30-14:45 | Overview by Rolf Salcher, Hannover Medical School |
| 14:45-15:15 | Fluoroscopy and intra-OP imaging as quality control for Minimal Invasive CI Surgery (Prof. Greg Eigner Jablonski / Ralf Greisiger University of Oslo, Norway / Oslo University Hospital, Norway) |
| Time | Room 1 |
|---|---|
| 15:15-15:45 | Prof. Lawrence Lustig, Columbia University, USA |
| 15:45-16:15 | Deep Phenotyping of Hearing Instability Disorders: Searching for Biomarkers and Re-purposable Therapeutics (Michael Hoa, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, USA) |
| 16:15-16:40 | Coffe Break |
| 16:40-17:10 | Stem Cells for Hearing Regeneration: towards a first-in-human clinical trial (Prof. Gerry O’Donoghue, Queen’s Medical Centre, UK) |
| 17:40-18:10 | Development of Therapeutic Approaches for Usher Syndrome (Prof. Gwenaelle Geleoc, Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA) |
| 18:10-18:40 | Progressive non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss: towards a disease-modifying gene therapy (Prof. Vincent can Rompaey, University of Antwerp, Belgium) |
| 18:40-19:00 | Discussion |
| Time | Room 2 |
|---|---|
| 15:15-15:45 | Robotics and computer-assisted surgery on ear (Prof. Marco Caversaccio, Inselspital – Universitätsspital Bern, Switzerland) |
| 15:45-16:15 | Robot-based assistance for middle ear and cochlear implant surgery (Prof. Yann Nguyen, Sorbonne Université, France) |
| 16:15-16:40 | Coffe Break |
| 16:40-17:10 | Precision control of critical parameters: Surgical tools to increase the reliability of cochlear implants (Thomas Rau Ph.D., Hannover Medical School) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Preservation of Functional Residual Hearing Comparing Manual and Robotic Insertion of Cochlear Implants (Prof. Bruce Gantz, University of Iowa, USA) |
| 18:20-18:30 | Discussion |
| From 19:15 | Shuttle to Evening Event |
| 19:30-22:30 | Evening Event: Gartensaal, Townhall |
Friday, 14th April 2023 | 08:00 - 18:45
| Time | Room 1 |
|---|---|
| 08:00-08:05 | Welcome (Prof. Andrej Kral, Hannover Medical School) |
| 08:05-11:35 | Artificial intelligence for hearing devices (Chair: Prof. Waldo Nogueira, Hannover Medical School) |
| 08:05-08:15 | Overview by Prof. Waldo Nogueira, Hannover Medical School |
| 08:15-08:45 | How can artificial intelligence advance hearing devices and research, or vice versa? (Prof. Fan-Gang Zeng, University of California, USA) |
| 08:45-09:05 | Low-complexity models for speaker separation in hearing aids (Prof. Bernd Meyer, University of Oldenburg, Germany) |
| 09:05-09:35 | Location-based training for multi-channel speaker separation (Prof. De Liang Wang, The Ohio State University, USA) |
| 09:35-10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:00-10:20 | N.A. (Prof. Holger Blume, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) |
| 10:20-10:50 | Personalised neural-network-based closed-loop systems for augmented hearing (Prof. Sarah Verhulst, Ghent University, Belgium Personalised neural-network-based cl) |
| 10:50-11:20 | Brain-controlled assistive hearing technologies (Prof. Nima Mesgarani, Columbia University, USA) |
| 11:20-11:35 | Discussion |
| 11:35-13:15 | Tour NIFE/DHZ + Luch |
| Time | Room 1 |
|---|---|
| 13:15-16:40 | Central Auditory Implants (Chair: Prof. Kerstin Schwabe) |
| 13:15-13:30 | Overview by Prof. Andrej Kral, Hannover Medical School |
| 13:30-14:00 | Future opportunities for central auditory prosthetics (Prof. Hubert Lim, University of Minnesota, USA) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Developing a speech neuroprosthesis (David Moses Ph.D., UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, USA) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Auditory Midbrain Implant – hearing beyond the brainstem (Prof. Amir Samii, International Neuroscience Institute – Hannover, Germany) |
| 15:00-15:25 | Coffee break |
| 15:25-15:55 | Intracranial electrophysiology of auditory processing in the human cortex (Prof. Kirill Nourski, University of Iowa, USA) |
| 15:55-16:25 | Deep Brain Stimulation for Tinnitus: from bench to bed (Marcus Janssen M.D. PhD., Maastricht UMC+, The Netherlands) |
| 16:25-16:40 | Discussion |
| 16:40-17:40 | Future Care Concepts (Panel Discussion / Round Table Presented by Prof. Jill B. Firszt, Washington University School of Medicine, USA and Prof. Andreas Büchner, Hannover Medical School Participants: Stefan Launer, Sonova AG, Switzerland Prof. Hubert Lim, University of Minnesota, USA Prof. Fan-Gang Zeng, University of California, USA Prof. Stephen O’Leary, University of Melbourne, Australia PD Dr. Angelika Illg, Hannover Medical School, Germany) |
| 18:30-18:45 | Closing Remarks |
| 19:30-22:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Room 2 |
|---|---|
| 13:15-16:40 | Hearing and cognition, education, societal impact (Chair: PD Angelika Illg Ph.D., Hannover Medical School Prof. Christiane Thiel Ph.D., University of Oldenburg) |
| 13:15-13:30 | Overview by PD Angelika Illg, Hannover Medical School |
| 13:30-14:00 | Improving the assessment of hearing impairment in children globally (Prof. Ulrike Lüdtke, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Use of EEG and fNIRS to predict language outcomes in children with cochlear implants (Prof. Mickael L.D. Deroche, Concordia University, Canada) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Defining working memory profiles in children with auditory/communicative disorders (Dr. Margreet Langereis, Pento Speech and Hearing Centers, The Netherlands) |
| 15:00-15:25 | Coffee break |
| 15:25-15:55 | How early language experience influences brain and cognitive development (Prof. Rachel R. Romeo, University of Maryland, USA) |
| 15:55-16:25 | Implementation of the ICF model in adult Cochlear Implant users (Ellen Andries Ph.D., Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium) |
| 16:25-16:40 | Discussion |
