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10/25/2019  |   9:00 AM - 12:00 PM   |  Ventana Ballroom C

A Practical Guide to Humanitarian Missions for Improving Hearing Health (James Saunders)
A Practical Guide to Humanitarian Missions for Improving Hearing Health

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18369_12459DebraFried.pdf
18369_12459DonnaCarkeet.pdf
18369_12459StacieRay.pdf
18369_12459StacieRay_1.pdf

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James Saunders (Primary Presenter), Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, james.saunders@hitchcock.org;
Dr. James E. Saunders is a Professor of Otology / Neurotology at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He completed an M.D. at University of Oklahoma, Residency Training and a Research Fellowship in Otolaryngology at Duke University Medical Center, and a Research and Clinical Fellowship at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. Dr. Saunders has many projects related to the etiology, prevention and treatment of hearing loss in the developing world including collaborations with the WHO and the Global Burden of Disease Project. He is past Coordinator for International Affairs and Chairman of the Humanitarian Efforts Committee for the AAO-HNSF. In 1999, he co-founded Mayflower Medical Outreach, an organization that supports and trains otolaryngologists and audiologists in Nicaragua. He currently serves as the co-chair for the Coalition for Global Hearing Health, an international multidisciplinary organization devoted to education and advocacy for hearing health services in low resource areas.

ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Nonfinancial -

AAA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists.

Donna Carkeet (Co-Presenter), EARS Inc, earsdonna@gmail.com;
Donna is an Australian pediatric audiologist with over 27 years experience, who has focused on humanitarian audiology for 17 years. She has worked on projects with EARS Inc. since her first short term trip in 2001. She lived in the Dominican Republic from 2005 to 2013 developing a university training program in Audiology. Since 2014 she has been working on a project in Fiji. She is currently working on projects in both Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Receives Other financial benefit for Board membership,Consulting from EARS Inc and Frank Hilton Organisation.   Receives Other financial benefit for Board membership,Consulting from EARS Inc and Frank Hilton Organisation.   Receives Other financial benefit for Board membership,Consulting from EARS Inc and Frank Hilton Organisation.   Receives Other financial benefit for Consulting,Other activities from EARS Inc and Frank Hilton Organisation.   Receives Other financial benefit for Board membership,Consulting,Other activities from EARS Inc and Frank Hilton Organisation.   Receives Other financial benefit for Membership on advisory committee or review panels from EARS Inc .   Receives Other financial benefit for Other activities from Frank Hilton Org.   Receives Gift for Other activities from Hear the World.   Nonfinancial - Has a Professional (volunteer on audiology project for EARS Inc run with our partner Frank Hilton Organisation. ) relationship for Volunteer employment,Board membership,Volunteer consulting.   Has a Professional (volunteer on audiology project for EARS Inc run with our partner Frank Hilton Organisation. ) relationship for Volunteer employment,Board membership,Volunteer consulting.   Has a Professional (volunteer on audiology project for EARS Inc run with our partner Frank Hilton Organisation. ) relationship for Volunteer employment,Board membership,Volunteer consulting.   Has a Professional,Personal interest (volunteer on audiology project for EARS Inc run with our partner Frank Hilton Organisation. ) (serve on board and volunteer with both organisations.) relationship for Volunteer employment,Board membership,Volunteer consulting.   Has a Professional relationship for Volunteer employment,Board membership.

AAA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Receives support from EARS Inc Frank Hilton Organisation.

Stacie Ray (Co-Presenter), University of Nebraska - Lincoln, stacie.ray@unl.edu;
Dr. Stacie Ray teaches audiology at the University of Nebraska. She is the administrator of the Hearing Aid Banks of Nebraska and founder of HearU Nebraska and HearU International, organizations that fund amplification for children. She is a Board Member of the Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and a member of the Nebraska Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Committee. Due to her experience of raising a Deaf child, she is committed to ensuring all individuals, regardless of age or financial means, have accessibility to audiology hearing care.

ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists. Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

AAA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Receives support from University of Nebraska.

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.

ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists. Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

AAA DISCLOSURE: Financial -