Summary: The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) is hosting CI2025 in Boston, Massachusetts, featuring multi-disciplinary sessions, expert lectures, and networking opportunities to advance cochlear implantation research and care.
Key Takeaways:
- Comprehensive Program: CI2025 will cover diverse topics, including cochlear implant candidacy, outcomes for children and adults, surgical innovations, and delivery models to improve care access.
- Special Features: Highlights include the Niparko Memorial Lecture by Dr. Nancy M. Young, an interactive exhibit hall, (Re)Habilitation Connect sessions, and a visit to the Mass Eye and Ear Human Temporal Bone Collection.
- Early Bird Discounts: Registration is now open with early bird rates available through March 12, 2025, and discounts for ACI Alliance members.
Registration is open for the American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) CI2025 Boston Conference on Cochlear Implants taking place April 30 – May 3, 2025 at the Omni Seaport Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Early bird rates are available through March 12, 2025 with registration discounts for ACI Alliance members.
What’s Going to be at CI2025?
As a clinical research conference, CI2025 will foster dissemination of multi-disciplinary scientific information applicable to physicians, audiologists, speech pathologists, psychologists, scientists, engineers, educators, students, and others involved in cochlear implantation. Anticipated session topics include:
- Cochlear implant candidacy and outcomes in asymmetric hearing loss
- Maximizing CI outcomes at both ends of the age spectrum
- Delivery models to improve access to care
- Early intervention challenges and opportunities including serving children with CMV
- Surgical concerns including robotics, imaging, and electrode array design
- (Re)Habilitation in SSD and in patients with secondary concerns including adult dementia
CI2025 Boston will include an interactive exhibit hall for attendees to interact with businesses, schools, governmental entities, publishers, and non-profits in the hearing health space. The program will include (Re)Habilitation Connect sessions focused on “Guiding Intervention in Cochlear Implant Care for Children and Adults,” and a student poster competition.
The Niparko Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Nancy M. Young, MD, on “Language Prediction to Improve Outcomes for Children with Cochlear Implants.” At the conclusion of the conference, ACI Alliance is hosting a visit for attendees to the Mass Eye and Ear Human Temporal Bone Collection. Mass Eye and Ear is an international center for treatment and research and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Further Reading
The Omni Seaport Hotel is less than three miles from Logan International Airport at the heart of the newly revitalized Seaport District.
ACI Alliance is a not-for-profit membership organization created with the purpose of eliminating barriers to cochlear implantation by sponsoring research, driving heightened awareness, and advocating for improved access to cochlear implants for patients of all ages across the US and around the world.
