ACI Alliance sponsors annual conferences featuring expert speakers from across the treatment continuum - surgeons, audiologists, speech language pathologists, educators and researchers.  For more information on binaural and bimodal hearing explored during these conferences, please click the links below.

CI2018 DC

• Bimodal and Bilateral Benefit in Adults Using Cochlear Implants: Towards Evidence-Based Guidelines for Recommending Bilateral Implantation, Agnes Au PhD
• Comparison of Speech Perception & Functional Listening Performance according to Inter-implant Intervals in Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantations, Oak-Sung Choo MD

CI2016 International Toronto

• Bimodal Hearing - Unilateral Cochlear Implantation in Children with a Potentially Useable Contralateral Ear: Iain Bruce, FRCS (ORL-HNS) MD, United Kingdom
• Bimodal Devices on Children: A Survey of Clinician Fitting Practices in North America: Dave Gordey PhD Candidate, Canada
•  Academic Outcomes for Early-Implanted Mid-Elementary School Children with Unilateral and Bilateral Cochlear Implants: Julia Sarant PhD, Australia
•  Benefit of Advanced Directional Microphones for Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users: Andreas Buechner PhD, Germany
• Bilateral Maps Can Improve Bilateral Cochlear Implant Patients’ Spectral Resolution: Justin Aronoff PhD, United States
• Long-Term Evaluation of Cochlear Implantation in Subjects with Acquired Unilateral Hearing Loss up to 10 Years: Focus on Binaural Auditory Outcomes: Griet Mertens PhD, Belgium
• Overcoming Head-Shadow for Ispilaterally Located Signals with Binaural Voice Streaming in Cochlear Implants: Smita Agrawal PhD, United States
•  Binaural Hearing Ability with Bilateral Bone Conduction: Effect of Hearing Status: Stefan Stenfelt PhD, Sweden
• The Effect of Bimodal Stimulation on Hearing and Speech Development of Pediatic Cochlear Implant Users: Wu Hao MD, China

CI2015 DC

• Evaluation of Advanced Signal Processing for Bimodal Recipients: Jace Wolfe, PhD
• Brain Synergistic Effects of Cochlear Implant and Contralateral Hearing Aid:  A Positron Emission Tomography Study: Arnaud Coez, PhD
• Unexpected Findings: ANSD and a Case for Bilateral Cochlear Implantation: Lori Bobsin, PhD

CI2014 Pediatrics Nashville

• Emergence of Spatial Hearing in Pediatric Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users (Part I): Ruth Litovsky, PhD
• Emergence of Spatial Hearing in Pediatric Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users (Part II): Ruth Litovsky, PhD
• Are We Restoring Binaural Hearing with Other Implantable Devices?: Wolf-Dieter Baumgartner, MD
• Bimodal Stimulation in Infants: Is There a Benefit to Language Development?: Aaron Moberly
• Benefit of Wireless Hearing Assistance Technologies Designed to Function with the Hearing Aid and Implant Sound Pro
• The Use of an Integrated Electric-Acoustic Sound Processor in Children with Low Frequency Residual Hearing: Sara Neumann
• Evaluation of the Hybrid Cochleae Implant System: Clinical Trial Results: William Shapiro
• Benefit of Bilateral Hearing on Speech Recognition on the Telephone for Cochlear Implant Recipients:Jace Wolfe
• The Impact of Bilateral Cochlear Implantation on Listening Effort Revealed Through Measurements of Pupil Dilation: Matthew Winn
• The Effect of Inter-Device Interval on Performance Among Bilateral, Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients: Claire Iseli
• Pitch Ranking, Pitch Matching and Binaural Fusion in Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants: How to Bring Research Into Clinical Practice: Melanie Buhr-Lawler
• Language and Academic Outcomes for Early-Implanted Children with Bilateral Versus Unilateral Cochlear Implants: Julia Sarant
• A Review of the Literature on the Cost-Utility of Bilateral Cochlear Implantation: Francisco Diez
• Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation in Children: Contributing Factors on Performance Outcomes: Anita Vereb
• Cochlear Hybrid System: Factors Affecting Outcomes US Clinical Trial Results: J Thomas Roland
• Hearing Preservation, Hybrid Stimulation, and Speech Understanding in an Expanded Indication Study: Preliminary Results: Craig Buchman
• Speech Perception Outcomes and Hearing Preservation Following Cochlear Implantation of Children with Steeply-Sloping Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Margaret Meredith
• The Use of Cochlear Nucleaus® Hybrid™ L24 Device in Adolescents: Camille Dunn

CI2013 DC

• Hearing Preservation Cochlear Implantation – An Overview: Renee Gifford, PhD, Vanderbilt University