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10/08/2015 |
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
| SAC: Flex A
Pre-Conference Session
Practical Guide to Humanitarian Missions for Improving Hearing Health
This workshop will be presented by an audiologist and a otolaryngologist who have more than 40 years of combined experience in organizing humanitarian outreach trips and non-profit programs in Central America, Africa, and Asia. The workshop will explore how humanitarian outreach has changed in recent years and some ethical issues inherit in doing this type of work. The practical issues related to humanitarian trips in audiology and otolaryngology will be explored including selecting a location for the work, recruiting team members, team and local site preparation, equipment needs, establishing follow up, and sustainability issues. Specific issues and methods of educating both the team members and local providers will be presented and discussed. Teaching methods employed in this pre-conference session will include lectures, presentations by a panel of experts (followed by a a Q & A session) and conclude with suggestions for best practices for humanitarian trips focusing on hearing health care.
- Participants will be given the tools in which to plan and execute a humanitarian program to improve hearing health.
- Participants will be able to describe the building blocks required to create a sustainable humanitarian program to improve hearing health.
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James Smith (Co-Presenter), Oregon Health and Science University, JamesD.Smith@yahoo.com;
Dr. Smith is a Professor Emeritus from Oregon Health and Science University of Portland, Oregon, USA. He graduated frm the University of Iowa Medical School in 1965 and completed his Otolaryngology residency at the same institution in 1973. He was part of the Otolaryngology facult at OHSU from 1973-1996. He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) full and part time from 1997-2015. He has had extensive teaching experience at several institutions in Africa and Asia with several different organizations. His special interests are in medical education and post graduate training programs. As a pediatric otolaryngologist and being Chairman of ComCare International board which has a solar powered hearing aid, he also has a strong interest in otolaryngology and hearing health in developing countries.
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AAA DISCLOSURE:
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Receives support from ComCare International, this is a non profit organization with a solar powered hearing aid. I am chairman of the board, but receive no financial reimbursement even for travel..
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Debra Fried (Co-Presenter), Mayflower Medical Outreach, DebraFriedMMO@aol.com;
Debra is a clinical audiologist and Coordinator of Audiology for the ambulatory care clinics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She provides diagnostic audiological, hearing aid and cochlear implant services. She manages the newborn hearing screening program for the hospital which has over 6,000 annual births.
Debra volunteers her time as Director of Audiology for Mayflower Medical Outreach, a U.S. based non-governmental organization providing hearing care services in Nicaragua. She works collaboratively to develop hearing health care programs while in Nicaragua as well as remotely. She is also a member of the International Humanitarian Hearing Aid Purchasing Program HHAPP. Debra is the 2019 recipient of the American Academy of Audiology Humanitarian Audiology Award.
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ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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Has a Professional (I am a board member of Mayflower Medical Outreach, an organization that is the administrator for the International Humanitarian Hearing Aid Purchasing Program)
relationship for Board membership,Other volunteer activities.
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Jean Johnson (Co-Presenter), University of Hawaii, jeanj@hawaii.edu;
Dr. Jean Johnson has worked in the Pacific providing audiological services for more than four decades. She has been involved in newborn hearing screening since its earliest beginnings. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator for EHDI programs in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Territory of American Samoa. In 2013 she received the Antonia Braxon Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence.
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ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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