Follow-up: 1st International Monsana Conference Continued

Professor George A. Tavartkiladze, M.D., PhD.




Director of the National Research Center for Audiology and Hearing Rehabilitation,
Head of the Chair on Clinical Audiology, Russian Medical Academy for Postgraduate Training.

MAIN TOPICS OF RESEARCH:
Experimental and clinical Audiology (investigations of cochlear frequency selectivity,otoacoustic emissions, i.e. properties, generation mechanisms, clinical application); hearing electrophysiology - Acoustically and electrically evoked auditory potentials; Hearing Rehabilitation: Cochlear implantation; hearing aid fitting.

FELLOWSHIPS AND MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
President, International Society of Audioloigy (2004-2008);
President, Collegium Oto-Rhino Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (CORLAS) (2006-2007);
President of International Academy of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery;
President of the Russian Society of Audiology;
Member of the American Academy of Audiology;
Member of the American Auditory Society
Member of the European Academy of Otology and Neurootology;
Member of the International Academy of Siences;
Member of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology;
Member of the Council of the International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group.

SPECIAL EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Expert Advisory Panel, World Health Organization;
Representative of the Russian Federation in the European Federation of Audiology Societies (EFAS);

Member of the Editorial Boards of the journals:
“Acta Otolaryngologica” (Stockh.), International Journal of Audiology,  International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology,
“ORL (Basel)”, “Otorhinolaryngologica Nova”, “Central and East European Journal of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and  Head and Neck Surgery”, “Folia Otorhinolaryngologica” (Rus), “Vestnik Otorhinolaryngologii” (Rus).

CONTACTS WITH National Institutes of Health (NIDCD/NIH, USA):
1991 - NIDCD/NIH, Visiting Lecturer - “Frequency selectivity of the auditory periphery”.
1993 , 1994, 2008  - Professional Service Contracts with NIDCD/NIH.

INVITED LECTURES
Visiting Professor - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA, 1993, 1994, 1995.
Guest of Honour, Invited Lecturer - Workshops on Electrocochleography, Otoacoustic Emissions and Intraoperative Monitoring, Denver, CO, USA, 1993, 1994.
Invited International Faculty - Workshop on Electrocochleography and Otoacoustic Emissions, Santa Ana, California, USA, 1994.
Invited International Faculty - Otoacoustic Emissions: Generation Mechanisms - Brigham Yong University, Provo, Uhta, USA, 2000.

CONGRESSES ORGANIZER
President of International Congresses “Modern Problems in Physiology and Pathology of Hearing” in 1990 (Telavi, USSR), 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2007 (Russia), Chairman and organizer of 15 National Conferences and Workshops in audiology, epidemiology of hearing disorders and hearing rehabilitation (cochlear implantation, hearing aid fitting),
XXII International Biennial IERASG Symposium in Moscow (International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group) -2011; XXXI World Congress of Audiology, Moscow – 2012.

PUBLICATIONS:
More than 320 publications dealing with various aspects of experimental and clinical audiology, including hearing electrophysiology, frequency selectivity of the auditory periphery, otoacoustic emissions, early detection, diagnosis and rehabilitation of hearing disorders, cochlear implantation, hearing aid fitting.

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