Save-the date: HLAA Virtual Convention 2021, June 24-26
HLAA 2021 Convention is going virtual! Join us June 24-26, 2021 for the world’s premier event for people with hearing loss-safely from the comfort of your own home! This three-day event will be jam-packed with the same robust educational workshops, innovative HLAA exhibitors, and unique networking opportunities you are used to having at HLAA Conventions.
Stay tuned, more information coming soon.
2021 HLAA Research Symposium
Hearing Care for All: Innovations in Extending the Reach of Hearing Care
Saturday, June 26, 2021
HLAA Research Symposia have been held annually at HLAA Conventions since 1994. The sessions cover cutting-edge scientific findings relevant to adult hearing loss. The symposia are unique because they are geared toward educating the lay audience of people with hearing loss about research. The 2021 Research Symposium is supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In the United States, most people with hearing loss do not receive hearing health care. How can we do better? This research symposium will feature some of the latest advances in delivering hearing care to communities traditionally unserved by clinic-based hearing care, including remote Alaska villages, older adults along the U.S.-Mexico border, and low-income older adults in Baltimore. In these settings, care is provided by a range of providers from community health aides to peer mentors.
The HLAA Research Symposium will feature talks by three national leaders in hearing care that bring a range of expertise and perspectives to meeting the hearing care needs of Americans, from children to older adults, and beyond. It will also include a panel of community-based health care providers who are the on-the-ground experts in this field.
Symposium Chair
Carrie Nieman, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Speakers:
Carrie Nieman, M.D.: Introduction
Susan Emmett, M.D., MPH – Teleaudiology and Hearing Care in Alaska
Nicole Marrone, Ph.D., CCC-A – Community Health Workers and Hearing Care at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Sarah Szanton, Ph.D. – CAPABLE Project (Community Aging in Place-Advancing Better Living for Elders)
Carrie Nieman, M.D. – HEARS Peer Educators in Action: Older Adults Serving Older Adults
Roundtable of the New Frontline Hearing Care Providers
This discussion will feature peer educators from HEARS (Hearing Equality through Accessible Research and Solutions), community health aides from Alaska, and community health workers from Arizona.
Future HLAA Conventions
2022: Tampa, Florida
June 23-25, JW Marriott Tampa
2023: New Orleans, Louisiana
June 27-July 2, New Orleans Marriott
Thank you all who took part in our unique virtual convention Experience HLAA!. Without your support, we could not have provided you with two days of educational and informative information on hearing loss. Captioned convention webinars, presentations, and information are now available for your viewing!
Thank You
To all of our sponsors, presenters, and moderators and all of you who took part in our unique virtual convention Experience HLAA!. Without your support, we could not have provided you with two days of educational and informative information on hearing loss.
In addition, HLAA Convention sponsors enrich the convention experience for attendees as you highlight your brand. Let us know if you and your company would like to sponsor HLAA 2021. Please email Marilyn DiGiacobbe.
