Keynote Speakers
With our global experts in the Listening and Spoken Language field, we'll explore a World of Sound Ideas Developing Future Voices!
2024 Symposium
Keynote Speakers
Ryan McCreery, Ph.D.
Vice President of Research,
Boys Town National Research Hospital (US)
Ryan McCreery is the Vice President of Research at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Ryan’s research seeks to optimize hearing aid benefit for children with mild to severe hearing loss using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging research methods.
Louise Paatsch, Ph.D., MEd, GDipSpecEd (HI), DipTeach(Prim)
Professor, Deakin University (Australia)
Louise Paatsch, Ph.D., is a professor at Deakin University in Australia. Her research areas include children’s language, pretend play, and digital play, with a strong focus on pragmatic and metapragmatic language use in children who are deaf and hard of hearing. See more.
Greg Leigh AO, Ph.D., FACE
Director, NextSense Institute (Australia)
Greg Leigh AO, Ph.D., is Director of NextSense Institute, a centre for research and professional education operated by NextSense and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on early hearing detection and intervention.
Ulrika Löfkvist, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVEd
Associate Professor, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Dr. Löfkvist is an associate professor at Uppsala University in Sweden with clinical background as a speech-language pathologist at a hearing implant center. Dr Löfkvist’s current research focus is to explore factors that explain variation in linguistic and cognitive outcome in individuals with hearing loss.
2024 Keynotes
1:01:27
1:14:19
52:42
1:04:36
2023 Symposium
Keynote Speakers
Lisa Hunter, PH.D., FAAA
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Dr. Lisa Hunter is an audiologist by training, and a pediatric hearing researcher who collaborates with experts in speech-language development, psychology, neonatology, and neuroimaging. Her NIH-funded research investigates the effects of prematurity on hearing and development. She has a passion for addressing systemic effects of access to care and early intervention.
Hilary Davis, PH.D. & Benjamin Hornsby, PH.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center & School of Medicine
Benjamin Hornsby, Ph.D.
Ben Hornsby is an Associate Professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. His research focuses on hearing loss-related communication difficulties and their impact on quality of life in of adults and children with hearing loss. His current research examines relationships between hearing loss, mental effort, and fatigue.
Hilary Davis, Ph.D.
Hilary Davis is a pediatric and educational audiologist at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center. She provides consultative educational audiology support to local school districts in the Nashville area. She has also partnered with researchers in the Listening and Learning Lab to assess listening-related fatigue in school-age children with hearing loss. She uses the Vanderbilt Fatigue Scales in school evaluations to support the students she serves.
Eliot Shearer, MD, PH.D.
Boston Children’s Hospital Harvard Medical School
Dr. Eliot Shearer is a pediatric otolaryngologist and member of the Cochlear Implant Program at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), and is the Principal Investigator of the Translational Hearing Genomics Lab. His laboratory studies the genetics of hearing loss and other ear, nose, and throat disorders. He is internationally recognized for his work in developing a new genetic testing platform for the diagnosis of hearing loss and has written many research articles and several book chapters on the subject.
Lisa R. Park, AU.D., CCC-A
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Lisa Park is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of North Carolina and the Division Chief of The Children’s Cochlear Implant Center. Her clinical research focuses on expanding cochlear implant indications for children and optimizing outcomes for non-traditional pediatric cochlear implant recipients.
2023 Keynotes
1:14:18
59:20
59:45
51:09
2022 Symposium
Keynote Speakers
Dathan D. Rush, Ed.D., CCC-SLP
Family, Infant and Preschool Program, J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center
Dathan Rush is the director of the Family, Infant and Preschool Program (FIPP) in Morganton, North Carolina. He has a master’s degree in speech-language pathology and doctoral degree in child and family studies. He is co-author of “The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook” and “The Early Intervention Teaming Handbook: The Primary Service Provider Approach”.
Esteban Gómez Muzzio, Ph.D., MSc.
Fundación América por la Infancia
Esteban Gómez Muzzio, Ph.D., M.Sc., is psychologist, co-founder, and executive director of Fundación América por la Infancia, an NGO devoted to promote a paradigm shift from child maltreatment to respectful and sensitive parenting and care in Latin-American countries. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers and offered more than 100 conferences and master classes in topics such as attachment theory, parenting, socioemotional development, trauma, and human resilience, and is author of the ODISEA (Oddisey) model of parenting intervention that includes instruments of evaluation like the E2P scale, video feedback, and parent therapy. He is a regular consultant in public policies for governments in Latin-American and works with professionals from over the world.
Amy R. Lederberg, Ph.D.
Department of Learning Sciences, Georgia State University
Amy Lederberg, Ph.D., is a Professor at Georgia State University and the director of the Center on Literacy and Deafness (CLAD). CLAD has developed five educational interventions to improve language and literacy outcomes for children who are deaf and hard of hearing. Some are for children who use spoken language, while others are for those who use sign language.
Susan D. Emmett, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Susan Emmett, MD, MPH, is an otolaryngologist and public health expert who develops evidence-based solutions to address preventable hearing loss. She serves as Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Director of the UAMS Center for Hearing Health Equity.
2022 Keynotes
1:10:26
59:38
1:01:05
59:02
2021 Symposium
Keynote Speakers
Ludovica Serratrice, PH.D.
Director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism University of Reading, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences
Krystal Werfel, PH.D., CCC-SLP
Associate Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders Director, University of South Carolina
2021 Keynote
1:16:19
1:00:20
1:01:56
1:01:54
2020 Symposium
Keynote Speakers
2020 Keynote
1:15:51
1:01:08
1:15:15
