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2019 NHCA Annual Conference

Richard (Dick) Danielson

Baylor College of Medicine
NASA-Johnson Space Center
Houston TX

7:30am PST

Registration Grapevine Reg A

8:30am PST

Boothless Audiometry: What do we need and what can we do now? A hands-on workshop discussion. Appaloosa 2Odile Clavier • Andrew Fallon • Kathy Gates • Samuel Gordon • Dirk Koekemoer • Renee Lefrancois • Jameel Muzaffar • Laura Prigge • Rishi Mandavia, UCL

9:45am PST

Break Grapevine Reg A

10:15am PST

Boothless Audiometry: What do we need and what can we do now? A hands-on workshop discussion. Appaloosa 2Odile Clavier • Andrew Fallon • Kathy Gates • Samuel Gordon • Dirk Koekemoer • Renee Lefrancois • Jameel Muzaffar • Laura Prigge • Rishi Mandavia, UCL

11:30am PST

Lunch On Your Own

1:00pm PST

Hearing Protector Fit-Testing Appaloosa 2William Murphy, PhD • David C. Byrne • Christa L. Themann

2:45pm PST

Hearing Protector Fit-Testing Appaloosa 2William Murphy, PhD • David C. Byrne • Christa L. Themann

5:30pm PST

Exhibitors Reception Longhorn Hall D

7:00am PST

Breakfast Grapevine Reg A

8:00am PST

Welcome and Opening Remarks Grapevine A

8:15am PST

Hear, Better. Do More. Grapevine ADan Gauger • Andy Sabin

8:45am PST

The OSHA Age Corrections Are Not Correct: Evidence From NHANES and Longitudinal Analyses of Exposed Workers Grapevine AKristy Deiters • Greg Flamme • David C. Byrne • David Goldfarb • Charles B. Hall • William J Murphy • David J. Prezant • Mark R. Stephenson • Christa L. Themann • Rachel Zeig-Owens

9:05am PST

Adult Use of Personal Hearing Protection Devices at Loud Athletic or Entertainment Events Grapevine AJohn Eichwald, M.A. • Yulia Carroll, MD, PhD • Franco Scinicariello, MD • Jana Telfer, MA

9:25am PST

Otoprotective Pharmacologic Agents: The Way Forward Grapevine AKathleen Campbell, CCC-A, PhD, Research Professor and Distinguished Scholar

10:15am PST

Influence of Incidental Motor Activity on Middle Ear Muscle Contractions Grapevine AStephen Tasko

10:35am PST

The Future Is Now: Eight Ways Otoacoustic Emissions Can Be Used to Advance Hearing Conservation Programs Grapevine ALynne Marshall, Ph.D. • Judi A. Lapsley Miller, Ph.D.

10:55am PST

A National Occupational Research Agenda for Hearing Loss Prevention Grapevine AWilliam Murphy, PhD • Amanda S. Azman • Elizabeth A. Masterson • Lauraine E Wells

11:15am PST

Kurtosis Level Incorporating Additional Information Into Noise Exposure Analysis Grapevine AEdward Zechmann, INCE Bd. Cert., PE, MS

11:35am PST

NHCA Business Meeting Grapevine A

3:00pm PST

Acoustic Trauma: Minimum Exposures To Continuous Noise Grapevine AElliott Berger, M.S., FASA, FAIHA • Robert Dobie, MD

3:40pm PST

Use of Technology in Hearing Protection Educational Interventions Among Youth: Lessons Learned from Recent Studies Grapevine AKhalid Khan, PhD • Sylvanna Bielko • Marjorie McCullagh

4:00pm PST

Sometimes 85 Is Just A Number, But Sometimes It's More. And, Sometimes It's Less. Grapevine AJohn Franks, Ph.D.

4:40pm PST

Safe in Sound Award Grapevine AKristen Casto • Scott Schneider

6:00pm PST

Friday Night Event Grapevine A

7:30am PST

Poster Session and Breakfast Longhorn Hall D

9:00am PST

Learning to Localize with Advanced Hearing Protectors and TCAPS ‚ Importance and Practicality of Learning Curves Appaloosa 3Kichol Lee • John G. Casali, Ph.D., C.P.E. Assessing Hearing, Aging, and Cognitive Decline in Agricultural Workers Appaloosa 2Jan Moore Laboratory and Field Studies of MEMC in Response to Impulse Noise Appaloosa 4Kristy Deiters • Greg Flamme • Stephen Tasko • William A. Ahroon • Nathaniel T. Greene • Heath G. Jones • William J Murphy • Madeline V. Smith

9:25am PST

Effects of Hearing Loss and Language Proficiency On Speech Intelligibility of Radio Messages Over Tactical Communication Devices Appaloosa 3Christian Giguere • Chantal Laroche • Veronique Vaillancourt Fundamental Mechanisms of The Objective Occlusion Effect Revisited Using a Finite Element Model of The Outer Ear Appaloosa 4Kévin Carillo • Olivier Doutres • Franck Sgard

9:50am PST

Hearing Protective Devices and Firearms Suppressors: Audiologists' Knowledge and Self-Efficacy Appaloosa 3Alexander Morris • Carol Cokely, PhD

10:40am PST

Systematic Reviews of Health Outcomes Associated with Noise Exposure in Humans Longhorn Hall DRichard Neitzel, PhD, CIH, FAIHA • Yulia Carroll • John Eichwald

11:10am PST

Classification of Nonverbal Human Produced Audio Events: A Pilot Study Longhorn Hall DRachel Bouserhal, PhD • Patrick Cardinal • Philippe Chabot • Milton Sarria-Paja • Jeremie Voix

11:30am PST

Hearing Loss Among World Trade Center Firefighters and Emergency Medical Services Workers: A 10-Year Longitudinal Analysis Longhorn Hall DGreg Flamme • James E. Cone • David Goldfarb • Charles B. Hall • David J. Prezant • Rachel Zeig-Owens

12:00pm PST

Hosted Luncheon and Awards Longhorn Hall D

2:25pm PST

Gasaway Lecture High Plains 1-2Brian Felsen

2:55pm PST

Comparisons of DRC for Impulsive Noise: Evidence from Firearm Noise High Plains 1-2Greg Flamme • Deanna Meinke, Ph.D. • Donald S. Finan • James E. Lankford • William J Murphy • Michael Stewart • Stephen M. Tasko • Edward L. Zechmann

3:55pm PST

Automated Audiometry and Telemedicine: Breaking Down Barriers to Diagnostic Audiometry High Plains 1-2Anna McCraney, AuD • Ototronix

4:15pm PST

How Can New Technology Help Stop Headphone Users Suffering From Avoidable Hearing Loss? High Plains 1-2Stephen Wheatley