Fall Cochlear Implant Meeting

2025 International Fall Cochlear Implant Meeting

September 22-23, 2025
The Omni Grove Park Inn, Asheville, N.C.

Panel and lecture-based meeting fostering clinically focused cochlear implant peer-to-peer discussion.

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Registration required by August 19

Call for Abstract Submissions

For the 2025 International Fall CI Meeting, we are accepting abstract submissions to be considered for presentation. All abstract submissions will be reviewed in a blinded format by our Program Committee. A limited number will be accepted.  

Abstracts MUST be submitted by midnight PST, May 2, 2025 to be considered for review. Any submissions past that date will not be reviewed. Further, all submissions must adhere to the instructed format or will be disqualified. The format guidelines can be found on the submission web page.

There are a limited number of travel grant awards available to the highest-ranking abstracts. Travel grants are awarded in two categories: trainees and Audiology professionals. Instructions for indicating intent to apply for a travel grant are included on the abstract submission website. 

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE. 

JOIN US: For an informal get-together Sunday evening at a location still to be determined to say hi to friends and colleagues. 

Please contact the course organizer, LaJoy Freeman, at lajoy.freeman@vumc.org with questions. 

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    • Pediatric and adult cochlear implant
    • Single-sided deafness and unilateral hearing loss
    • Electric acoustic stimulation vs. image-guided mapping
    • Health care disparities
    • Vestibular schwannoma
    • Expanding indications & criteria
    • Modified osia technique
    • Tinnitus suppression in cochlear implant
    • Bone-conduction implants and skull base tumors
    • Place-pitch importance
    • Optimizing binaural hearing
    • Imaging
    • Hearing preservation
    • and more!

  • We have a block of rooms reserved at The Omni Grove Park Inn until Tuesday, Aug. 19 or until there are no more rooms available.

    Room rate: $359.00/night

    To reserve: Call 800-THE OMNI and reference Vanderbilt 2025 International Fall Cochlear Implant Meeting to ensure you're booked within the room block. The block can accommodate reservations from Sunday, Sept. 21 through Wednesday, Sept. 24.

    Or, book via our personalized booking link.

    Note: A one-night deposit is required at the time of booking to confirm a reservation. The Grove Park Inn’s cancellation policy is 7 days prior to arrival date. Deposit will be forfeited if reservations are cancelled fewer than 7 days prior to arrival.

  • Monday, Sept. 22

     

    8:00 Welcome remarks
    8:15 PANEL: Community Integration of Cochlear Implant Programs
    8:50 Designing the Ideal Cochlear Implant Team
    9:07 Ethical Considerations in Cochlear Implantation
    9:24 PANEL: Cochlear Implant Billing and Insurance
    10:10 Questions/Break
    10:30 PANEL: Scary Cases
    11:17 PANEL: Aural Rehabilitation
    12:05 Spread of Excitation Patterns and Benefit with Individualized Maps for Cochlear Implant Users
    12:15 Deep Neural Network-Based Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids Changes the Dominant Ear for Bimodal Patients
    12:20 Lunch
    1:00 SSD and Development
    1:17 PANEL: SSD Fishbowl
    2:05 SSD in Children
    2:22 Head Movement Dynamics in a complex combined speech in noise/localization task for SSD CI
    2:37 Questions/Break
    3:00 MEDEL Totally Implantable CI
    3:17 Acclaim Totally Implantable CI
    3:35 PANEL: Innovation in Cochlear Implantation and Cochlear Implant Care

    Tuesday, Sept. 23

     

    7:50 Characterizing Variability in Modiolar Proximity and Its Influence on Cochlear Implant Speech Recognition Outcomes with Pre-curved Electrode Arrays
    8:00 Hearo Robot
    8:17 Iotamotion
    8:34 Otodrive
    9:50 PANEL: Evidence-Based Practice Toolbox
    10:55 Robotic CI in Children
    11:12 Electrocochleography and Hearing Preservation
    11:30 Hearing Preservation
    11:46 Drug Eluting Electrodes and Hearing Preservation
    12:00 Lunch
    1:02 Human Cochlear Pathology-Insights for Cochlear Implantation
    1:19 Impact of Cochlear Microanatomy on Hearing Preservation Following Cochlear Implantation
    1:36 Benefits of Incorporating Individual Characteristics into the Programming of Electric-Acoustic Stimulation
    1:55 PANEL: Implant Regrets: We should have said "No!"
    2:40 Questions/Break
    3:00 Cochlear Implantation in CHARGE Syndrome: Navigating Anatomic Challenges and Atypical Surgical Techniques
    3:10 Genetic Literacy and Gene Therapy Candidacy in Cochlear Implant Clinics
    3:20 How Musical and Prosodic Pitch are Perceived by Cochlear Implant Users: Insights from Vocal Mimicry
    3:40 PANEL: Cognition and CI

  • Mountain casual to business casual is acceptable. 

  • Registration cancellations will be refunded, less a $100 administrative fee, until August 19th, 2025. Refunds requested after that date are not able to be granted.