Seminar Participants Announced for First Seminar

By Timothy Cooke

An international group of hearing care professionals from 11 different countries, spanning 5 continents, will attend Ida’s upcoming seminar on 21 January titled “Patient-Centered Care: Fluff, Fact or Fiction.”

For each Ida seminar series, we aim to bring together a diverse group of participants from various backgrounds and locations. During the seminar, we ask each participant to reflect on their own practice and share their unique perspectives on the given topic. We consider our participants the experts. Their stories and experiences serve as the starting point for our collaborative process. A diverse group of participants helps the seminar bring fresh light on existing knowledge and explore uncharted territory.

With our participant list finalized, we are very excited about our upcoming knowledge journey. During the seminar, we will explore the relationships among language, identity, and patient-centered care. We will consider the challenges professionals experience in anchoring patient-centered care in daily practice and craft a way forward for overcoming these challenges.

Below is a list of the confirmed seminar participants:

Argentina

Berta Cembal, Hospital de Rehabilitación Manuel Rocca

Viviana Maller,Mutualidad Argentina de Hipoacusicos     

Australia

Matthew Grounds, Hearservice

Nerina Scarinci, University of Queensland  

Brazil

Deborah Viviane Ferrari, University of Sao Paulo - Bauru Campus

Canada

Mandy Rhody, Auditory Health Care

Denmark

Pia Thomsen, Institut for Sprog og Kommunikation, Syddansk Universitet

Germany

Birger Groβefeste, Hörgeräte Flemming & Klingbeil         

Lennard Lemke, Lemke Hoeren       

New Zealand

Simon Melville, Bay Audiology         

South Africa

Susan Michele Swart, SMS Consulting         

Sweden

Elin Björkegren, Avesina       

United Kingdom

Emily Balmer, NHS    

Charlene Coetzee, Frimley Park       

Wayne Ellis, Royal Berkshire Hospital

Raul Garcia-Medina, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust    

Priya Singh, UCL Ear Institute

Nick Taylor, SpecSavers

Jennifer Thwaites, NHS

United States

Kris English, University of Akron      

Ellen Lafargue, Center for Hearing and Communication   

Kari Morgenstein, University of Florida       

Hillary Snapp,  Millner School of Medicine, Uni of Miami Health Systems           

Linda Thibodeau, Advanced Hearing Research Center, University of Texas at Dallas      

Deborah von Hapsburg, University of Tennessee