Summary: The ACI Alliance elected four new board members and thanked outgoing members at the CI2024 Vancouver conference, emphasizing their commitment of improving access to cochlear implants.

Takeaways:

  1. New Board Members Elected: Kenneth H. Lee, MD, PhD; Charles Limb, MD; Allison Biever, AuD; and Michael Scott, AuD, were elected to the ACI Alliance board, bringing expertise from renowned medical centers and hospitals.
  2. Continued Leadership: Andrea Warner-Czyz was re-elected as Chair of the Board of Directors for a second year, ensuring continuity in leadership.
  3. Mission-Driven Diversity: The ACI Alliance board includes a diverse range of professionals and stakeholders, reflecting the organization’s mission to eliminate barriers to cochlear implantation and advocate for improved access across the U.S., the alliance says.

American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) membership elected new board members and thanked outgoing board members during the CI2024 Vancouver: 17th International Conference on cochlear implants and other implantable technologies held earlier this month in Vancouver, Canada. 

The four new members elected to the board are:

  • Kenneth H. Lee, MD, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 
  • Charles Limb, MD, University of California San Francisco Francis A. Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Chief of the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery 
  • Allison Biever, AuD, Rocky Mountain Ear Center 
  • Michael Scott, AuD, Dayton Children’s Hospital

Chair of the Board of Directors Andrea Warner-Czyz PhD, associate professor, University of Texas at Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders, was re-elected to continue to serve for a second year.

The ACI Alliance says that it is grateful to outgoing board members Camille Dunn, David Kelsall, Fred Telischi, and Melissa Hall for their service on the board. 

“The members of the ACI Alliance Board of Directors reflect the diversity and mission of the organization by including surgeons, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, educators of children with hearing loss, and other professionals on cochlear implant teams or from school settings, as well as parents and adult CI recipients,” says the ACI Alliance.

ACI Alliance is a not-for-profit membership organization created with the purpose of eliminating barriers to cochlear implantation by sponsoring research, driving heightened awareness and advocating for improved access to cochlear implants for patients of all ages across the U.S.

Further reading: American Cochlear Implant Alliance Names Student Poster Winners for CI2024

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