This presentation will review current cochlear implant predictors and outcomes.
Course created on July 18, 2016
Susan B. Waltzman, PhD is the Marica F. Vilcek Professor of Otolaryngology and Co-Director of the NYU Cochlear Implant Center at NYU Langone Medical Center/NYU School of Medicine. Her research is focused on two main areas: outcomes with cochlear and brainstem implants and isolating the variables which affect performance including the impact of new technology on outcomes in children, adolescents, older adults and special populations. The most current research at the cochlear implant center focuses on the treatment of those with single-sided deafness, residual hearing and children with compromised auditory nerves. She has been the PI on numerous device-related clinical trials over the past 20 years, the most current trial being the-use of auditory brainstem implants in children with compromised auditory nerves. Dr. Waltzman is the author of more than 100 peer reviewed articles, numerous book chapters and in 2014, the third edition of a textbook with Dr. J. Thomas Roland titled Cochlear Implants. She also has been invited as a Visiting Professor at many institutions world-wide and is a frequent contributor and invited speaker at national and intemational conferences.
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