UCSF Audiology Update XIV – 2022
This course is designed as a state-of-the-art update of contemporary audiological practice, addressing a wide range of topics including the areas of hearing science and diagnostics, pediatric specialty, tinnitus management, balance assessment, and amplification. This program is intended as a course for practicing audiologists, however professionals engaged in hearing aid dispensing, audiology graduate students, physicians, and others involved in the management of adults and children with hearing disorders will also benefit. The format consists of lectures presented by renowned faculty from around the country and updates on new technology presented by manufacturer representatives.
This course, titled “Contemporary Audiology: Updates in Practice,” offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of various topics in audiological practice. Designed for practicing audiologists, as well as hearing aid dispensers, audiology graduate students, physicians, and other professionals involved in the management of hearing disorders, this course aims to provide attendees with the latest advancements in hearing science and diagnostics, pediatric audiology, tinnitus management, balance assessment, and amplification.
Delivered by renowned faculty members from across the country, this program combines lectures with updates on new technology presented by manufacturer representatives, ensuring participants gain both theoretical knowledge and practical insights into the field.
Benefits of Attending
By attending this course, you will:
- Gain insight into how bimodal neuromodulation can be used in clinical settings for treating patients with tinnitus.
- Deepen your understanding of evidence-based audiological practice, including the components of audiological evaluation that are supported by evidence.
- Learn about resiliency, sustainability, burnout, empathic distress, and moral injury, and discover strategies for promoting individual resiliency in clinical work.
- Expand your knowledge of vestibular migraine, including how to diagnose it and understand the evidence behind different treatment modalities.
- Explore the genetic causes of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and learn about genetic testing and its clinical impact on SNHL patients.
- Get updates on cochlear implant candidacy guidelines and learn about electro-acoustic CI candidacy.
- Stay informed about the proposed FDA rule and understand how to integrate over-the-counter hearing aids and direct-to-consumer amplifiers into your audiology practice.
- Discover the possible hearing and balance problems associated with COVID-19 and learn which audiometric tests are appropriate for COVID-19 survivors.
- Learn about ultrasound hearing aid technology and its potential for hearing applications.
- Understand how diabetes affects the auditory system and develop a hearing screening and monitoring program for patients with diabetes.
- Gain insight into the benefits of collaborative, interdisciplinary care for Deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
- Learn effective communication strategies and tools to optimize hearing and communication during healthcare encounters.
Course Outline
The course will be held over two days, Friday, October 14, 2022, and Saturday, October 15, 2022. Here is a brief outline of the sessions:
Time | Session | Presenter |
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Friday, October 14, 2022 | ||
7:30am | Registration and Breakfast | |
7:55am | Welcome | |
8:00am | Vendor Presentations | |
8:30am | Bimodal Neuromodulation for Tinnitus | Hubert H. Lim, PhD |
9:30am | An Evidence-based Look at Audiological Treatment and Outcomes | Catherine Palmer, PhD |
10:30am | Break | |
11:00am | Resiliency in the Setting of Serious Illness: Working with Loss and Preventing Burnout | Mike Rabow, MD Judy Long, Mdiv, BCC |
Judy Long, Mdiv, BCC | ||
12:30pm | Lunch | |
1:45pm | Vestibular Migraine: Updates, Evidence, and Challenges | Jeff Sharon, MD |
2:45pm | Break | |
3:15pm | Genetic Evolution Is Here: Genetic Testing and Gene Therapy for Sensorineural Hearing Loss | Dylan Chan, MD, PhD |
4:15pm | Updates to Cochlear Implant Candidacy Guidelines | Melanie Gilbert, AuD |
5:15pm | Adjourn | |
5:15pm | Wine Reception |
Note: The outline for Saturday, October 15, 2022, is not mentioned in the provided information.
Why You Should Attend
Attending this course will provide you with unparalleled access to renowned faculty members who are experts in their respective fields. You will have the opportunity to learn directly from them, gaining insights into the latest advancements in audiological practice. Additionally, attending this course will allow you to stay up to date with new technology and potential treatments, ensuring you are providing the best possible care to your patients.
Furthermore, this course offers a unique platform to network with other professionals in the audiology field. You will have the chance to exchange ideas, discuss challenging cases, and establish valuable connections within the industry.
How to Order
To order the book or video for this course, simply visit the course website or contact the event organizers directly. Ordering the course materials will allow you to review the content at your own pace and refer back to it whenever needed, ensuring you fully absorb the information presented during the course.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your audiological practice and improve patient outcomes. Order the course materials today and embark on a journey of professional growth and development.
Product Details
- Consider how bimodal neuromodulation can fit into a clinical setting for treating tinnitus patients.
- Describe what is meant by evidence-based practice and identify the components of audiological evaluation that are supported by evidence.
- List examples of physical and acoustic facts that do not require evidence-based evaluation.
- Understand the definitions of and differences between resiliency, sustainability, burnout, empathic distress, and moral injury.
- Describe three strategies or practices for promoting individual resiliency in clinical work.
- Understand how to diagnose vestibular migraine and how to use patient-reported outcome measures to quantify symptoms in vestibular migraine.
- Understand the evidence behind different treatment modalities for vestibular migraine.
- Describe the different genetic causes of SNHL and how genetic testing for SNHL is conducted and interpreted.
- Understand the clinical impact of genetic testing for SNHL.
- Define the new 60/60 referral guideline for cochlear implant evaluation referrals (Zwolan et al., 2020) and identify three groups of patients who meet the recently expanded FDA CI candidacy criteria.
- Describe a typical hearing loss profile that meets electro-acoustic (EAS, hybrid) CI candidacy.
- List elements of the proposed (or finalized) FDA rule.
- Compare and contrast methods of integrating OTC HAs and other direct to consumer amplifiers into an audiology practice.
- Describe pathways of care for patients.
- Identify how the COVID-19 virus that causes hearing loss/tinnitus and/or balance problems and the degree and types of hearing loss that could occur.
- Decide and interpret which audiometric tests (objective and subjective) are appropriate for COVID-19 survivors and what test results are for patients who report ‘brain fog.’
- Informed of the advantages of an ultrasound hearing aid compared to current hearing aid technologies, along with animal data to support its potential for hearing applications.
- Recognize how diabetes affects the auditory system as well as plan a hearing screening and monitoring program for patients with diabetes.
- Describe benefits to regular collaborative, interdisciplinary care of D/HH children, including key checkpoints for teams in a child’s journey.
- Describe the effective communication strategies and tools to help optimize hearing and communication during encounters.