The Biennial 2015 NCRAR Conference has been announced by the Oregon Academy of Audiology (OAA) to take place September 16-18, 2015 in Portland, Oregon.
The conference theme is “Hearing Loss as a Public Health Concern.”
Presentation Topic Areas are:
- Foundations and principles of public health
- Interpreting epidemiologic data
- Results of large of public health studies of hearing
- Hearing loss as a determinant of healthy aging
- Living with hearing loss: Personal, family and social factors
- Working towards the development of an audiology outcomes database
- Tracking hearing disability and its associated economic burdens in the VA
- Public health in action
Invited speakers include:
Elena Andresen, PhD Rob Mullen, MPH, ScD
Don Austin, MD, MPH Rachel McArdle, PhD
Karen Cruickshanks, PhD Paul Mick, MD, MPH
Marc Fagelson, PhD Kathy Pichora-Fuller, PhD
Frank Lin, MD, PhD Jessica Sullivan, PhD
David Green, MPH
According to the Oregon Academy of Audiology, there will be a call for posters and the event will award scholarships to students and clinicians. More details will follow.
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For poster, scholarship, and program questions contact: [email protected]
