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 single sided deafness and cochlear implantation explored during these conferences, please click the links below.

CI2018 DC

• Cochlear Implantation in Young Children with Single Sided Deafness: Characteristics and Early Data, Lisa Park AuD
• Cochlear Implantation in Adults with Single-Sided Deafness: Update from a North American Clinical Trial, Nicholas Dewyer MD
• Reaching Potentials: Indications for and Perceived Benefit of Cochlear Implantation by Families and Young Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss, Aleisha Davis MPhil, MSLP
• Our Experiences With Cochlear Implantation in Single Sided Deafness Patients, Magdolna Szönyi MD, PhD
• Challenges of Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention in the Pediatric Single-Sided Deafness Population, Tiffany Peng MD

CI2017 Pediatrics San Francisco

• Outcomes of Pediatric Cochlear Implantation in Single-Sided Deafness or very Asymmetrical Hearing Loss, Jaime Leigh, PhD
• Long-term Results of Auditory Abilities after Cochlear Implantation in Subjects with Unilateral Deafness, Rolf Battmer, PhD
•  Indications Panel: Implantation in Children with Single-Sided Deafness, Moderator: Kevin Brown, MD, PhD
• Music Enjoyment in SSD Patients: The Synergistic Effect of Electric and Acoustic Stimulation, David Landsberger, MD
• Evaluation of Long Term Cochlear Implant Use in Patients with Acquired Unilateral Profound Hearing Loss: Focus on Binaural Auditory Outcomes, Griet Mertens, PhD

CI2016 International Toronto 

• Evaluation and Outcome Measures for Cochlear Implantation for Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss: Yetta Abrahams BA, Australia
• Comparison of Cochlear Implants and a Transcutaneous Bone-Conduction Hearing Implant in Single-Sided Deafness: Clemens Honeder MD, Austria
• Cochlear Implantation as a Long-Term Treatment for Ipsilateral Incapacitating Tinnitus in Subjects with Unilateral Hearing Loss up to 10 Years: Paul Van de Heyning MD, Belgium
• Comparison of Audiological Results in Patients with Single-Sided Deafness Treated with Cochlear Implant Versus Bone Bridge: Thomas Keintzel Dr. med, Austria
• Outcomes and Tinnitus Treatment with Cochlear Implants in Single-Sided Deafness Patients: Christine Poncet-Wallet MD, PhD, France
• Cochlear Implantation in Patients with Single-Sided Deafness of Short Duration: Kari Smilsky M.Cl.Sc., Canada
• Assessing Quality of Life and Listening Effort in Patients who have Normal Hearing in One Ear and a Cochlear Implant in the Contralateral Ear: Camille Dunn PhD, United States
• Prospective Evaluation of Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Atypical Single-Sided Hearing Loss Patients: Interval Report: Kevin Brown MD, PhD, United States
• Early Cochlear Implantation in Babies with Unilateral Deafness: Results and Revalidation/Assessment Methods: Annelies Vermeiren, Audiologist, Belgium
• Effect of Cochlear Implantation for Single-Sided Deafness on Tinnitus, Dizziness and Quality of Life: Early Results of FDA-Approved Clinical Trial of Cochlear Implantation for Single-Sided Deafness: J. Eric Lupo MD, MS, United States
• Clinical Management for Children with Single-Sided Deafness/Asymmetric Hearing Loss: Rebecca Farrell MClAud, Australia
• Non-User After Cochlear Implantation in Single-Sided Deafness: Wolfram Pethe MD, Germany

CI2015 DC

• Measuring Listening Ability in Adults with SSD: Bradford May, PhD
• Objective Measures of Speech Understanding, Sound Quality, and Cortical Reorganization Following CI for SSD in Kids and Adults: Daniel Zeitler, MD
• Variables Affecting Outcomes for Speech Perception and Localization in Patients who have NH in One Ear and a CI in the Contralateral Ear: Camille Dunn, PhD
• Benefits of Cochlear Implantation Among Adults and Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss: Doug Sladen, PhD
• Clinical Outcomes in Cochlear Implantation in Young Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss: Candidacy and Post-Operative Experiences and Considerations: Yetta Abrahams, MAudSA
• Localization Abilities after Cochlear Implantation in Cases of Single-Sided Deafness: Harold Pillsbury, MD
• Clinically Sponsored Investigations: Navigating the Regulatory and Funding Hurdles for Single-Sided Deafness and Auditory Brainstem Implants: Laurel Fisher, PhD

CI2014 Pediatrics Nashville

• Cochlear Implantation for Pediatric Patients with Single-Sided Deafness: Janet Green
• The Impact of Adding a Contralateral Cochlear Implant to a Normal Hearing Ear in Terms of Spatial Hearing Abilities and Listening Effort During Speech Perception: Matthew Winn
• Cochlear Implantation in Pediatric Single Sided Deafness (SSD): Paul Bauer
• Cochlear Implants and SSD: Initial Findings with Adults, Implications for Children:Douglas Sladen
• AHL, SSD and BiModal CI Results in Children:Angel Ramos, MD
• Cochlear Implant in a Child with SSD after Meningitis: Ricardo Bento, MD
• Consequences of UHL in Children: How Do We Measure Deficits and Possible CI Benefits: Jill Firszt, PhD
• Cochlear Implantation in Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss: J. Thomas Roland, MD
• Managing Unilateral Hearing Loss in Infants: Why One Ear is Not Enough: Yetta Abrahams

CI2013 DC

• Historical Perspective on Unilateral Hearing Loss in Children: Ann Marie Tharpe, PhD, Vanderbilt University