Steering Committees (2025)

ACADEMIC MEMBERS Astrid van Wieringen Belgium Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Karen Gordon Canada University of Toronto, Ontario Jérémy Marozeau Denmark Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Lyngby Hongmei Hu Germany Carl von Ossietzky - Universität, Oldenburg Andrej Kral Germany Hannover Medical School, Hannover Maike Vollmer Germany University Hospital, Wuerzburg Jeroen Briaire Netherlands Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden Enrique Lopez-Poveda Spain University of Salamanca, Salamanca Tobias Goehring UK University of Cambridge, Cambridge Josh Bernstein USA Walter Reed National Medical Center, Bethesda, MD René Gifford USA Hearts for Hearing, Oklahoma City, OK Shuman He USA Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Kara Leyzac USA Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC Melissa Polonenko USA University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES Jane Opie Austria MED-EL, Innsbruck Smita Agrawal USA Advanced Bionics, Valencia, CA Christopher (Stoph) Long USA Cochlear Americas, Lone Tree CO

Former Chairs

2023 Debi Vickers, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Waldo Nogueira, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany 2021 Ian Bruce, McMaster University, Hamiton, CANADA Astrid Van Wieringen, Katholieke University, Leuven, BELGIUM 2019 Karen Gordon, University of Toronto, Toronto, CANADA Deniz Baskent, University Medical School Groningen, Groningen, NL 2017 Julie Arenberg Bierer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA David McAlpine, MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia 2015 Andrew Oxenham, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Johan Frijns, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands 2013 Monita Chatterjee, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE Andrej Kral, Medical University Hannover, Germany 2011 Stuart Rosen, University College London, UK Ruth Litovsky, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2009 Bob Carlyon, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge University, UK Gail Donaldson, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA 2007 John Middlebrooks, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Quentin Summerfield, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK 2005 Fan-Gang Zeng, University of California, Irvine, California, USA Russell Snyder, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA 2003 Rob Shepherd, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Melbourne, Australia Mario Svirsky, Department of Otolaryngology School of Medicine, Indiana University, USA 2001 Michael Dorman, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, USA Jay Rubinstein, Departments of Otolaryngology and Physiology, University of Iowa, USA 1999 Paul Abbas, Departments of Speech Pathology and Otolaryngology, University of Iowa, USA Arlene Carney, Department of Communication Disorders, University of Minnesota, USA 1997 Margaret Skinner, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Charles Finley, Center for Auditory Prosthesis Research, Research Triangle Institute, USA 1995 Patricia Leake, Department of Otolaryngology, University of California San Francisco, USA Charles Parkins, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University, USA 1993 Chris van den Honert, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Mary Joe Osberger, Dept. of Otolaryngology, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA 1991 Blake Wilson, Neurosciences Program Office, Research Triangle Institute, USA Robert Shannon, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA 1989 Bryan Pfingst, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, USA Sigfrid Soli, Biosciences Research Laboratory, 3M Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 1987 Robert Bilger, Department of Speech and Hearing, University of Illinois, USA Francis Spelman, Center for Bioengineering, University of Washington, USA 1985 Donald Eddington, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1983 Robert White, Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA

Organization

Chair: David Landsberger

Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery NYU Grossman School of Medicine david.landsberger@nyulangone.org

Co-chair: Olivier Macherey

LMA-CNRS, UPR 7051, Aix-Marseille Univ. macherey@lma.cnrs-mrs.fr

Administrative Chair: Jay T. Rubinstein

Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center University of Washington rubinj@uw.edu

Administrative Chair Emeritus: Bob Shannon

70 Whittington Dr., Newcastle, CA 95658 robertvshannon@gmail.com