Research Day 2022

Join us Monday, April 25 for Cochlear Center Research Day! Research Day will be held in person, with a virtual option for faculty remarks and the keynote address. Registration is required for both the in-person and virtual options.

WHERE: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore
WHEN: 8:30 am - 3 pm, Monday, April 25

Research Day includes presentations from the Center's core faculty, keynote address by Natalie Phillips, PhD of Concordia University, and poster presentations from Center trainees.

We begin at 8:30 with the opportunity to greet colleagues and mingle face-to-face over breakfast before the formal program starts at 9:00.

9 - 9:25 am: *Welcoming Remarks & Overview of Center Initiatives* Frank Lin, MD, PhD, Professor, Departments of Otolaryngology and Epidemiology
9:25 - 9:50 am: *Hearing Loss and the Aging Brain* Jennifer Deal, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
9:50 - 10:15 am *Addressing Hearing Loss in Individuals with Cognitive Impairment* Esther Oh, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology; Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center
*10:15-10:30am BREAK*
10:30 - 10:55 am *Advancing Hearing Health Equity for Older Adults: Findings from the HEARS Randomized Study* Carrie Nieman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
10:55 - 11:20 am *Implementing Modern Clinical Trial Methodology in Hearing-Related Studies* Josh Betz, MS, Assistant Scientist, Department of Biostatistics
11:20 - 11:45 am *Association Between Hearing Loss and Health Care Outcomes: Modifiable or Not?* Nicholas Reed, AuD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
*11:45-12pm BREAK*
12pm-1pm *Keynote Address: Sensory Function and Its Relationship With Cognition, Brain Imaging, and Dementia* Natalie Phillips, PhD, Professor, Concordia University Research Chair in Sensory-Cognitive Health in Aging and Dementia, Psychology
1-3pm Lunch and Posters