American Otological Society Preliminary Program 159th Annual Meeting April 24-25, 2026 Phoenix, AZ

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2026 1:00BUSINESS MEETING and NEW MEMBER INTRODUCTION (Open to registered Members and Non-members - Badge required for admittance) 1:30SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 1:30WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT Nancy M. Young, MD 1:32PRESIDENTIAL CITATIONS Karen I. Berliner, PhD Kevin D. Brown, MD, PhD Teresa H. Caraway, PhD René H. Gifford, PhD Ronna Hertzano, MD, PhD Karen Iler Kirk, PhD Debara L. Tucci, MD, MS, MBA 1:42INTRODUCTION OF GUEST OF HONOR Nancy M. Young, MD 1:44GUEST OF HONOR LECTURE Using Neural Data to Predict Language Development Across Populations of Children Patrick C.M. Wong, PhD Director, Brain and Mind Institute Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience & Linguistics The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2:24SESSION A - ADVANCES IN COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION David S. Haynes, MD, MMHC & Kenneth Lee, MD, PhD, Moderators Influence of Cochlear Microanatomy on Hearing Preservation in Cochlear Implant Recipients Elena Quinonez Del Cid, BS Ashley Micuda, BSc Margaret T. Dillon, AuD, PhD Sumit Agrawal, MD Hanif M. Ladak, PhD Kevin D. Brown, MD, PhD Hearing Preservation Across Different Electrode Arrays: Robotic Versus Manual Insertion Carlos A. Perez-Heydrich, MD Elena Quinonez Del Cid, BS Margaret T. Dillon, AuD, PhD A. Morgan Selleck, MD Matthew M. Dedmon MD, PhD Kevin D. Brown MD, PhD Nicholas J. Thompson, MD Iowa CI Trauma Tool: A Deep Learning Approach to Cochlear Implant Trauma Assessment from CT scans Aseem Jain, MD, MSE Nicholas George-Jones, MD Rachel Scheperle, AuD, PhD Joshua Pinzour, BS Marlan Hansen, MD Alexander Claussen, MD Comparing Low-Frequency Threshold Functions of Intracochlear Electrocochleography and Perioperative Pure Tone Audiometry Jordan J. Varghese, MD, MSCI Amit Walia, MD, MSCI Matthew A. Shew, MD Amanda J. Ortmann, PhD Nedim Durakovic, MD Jacques A. Herzog, MD Craig A. Buchman, MD 2:47DISCUSSION with MODERATORS 2:51BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS 3:21EXPERT PRESENTATION Introduction by Moderator, Anil K. Lalwani, MD Supporting Innovation in Human Temporal Bone Research Debara L. Tucci MD, MS, MBA 3:31SESSION B - HUMAN TEMPORAL BONE RESEARCH: BRIDGING BASIC SCIENCE & CLINICAL PRACTICE Aaron C. Moberly, MD, PhD & Wade W. Chien, MD, Moderators Whole Genome Sequencing of Archival Human Temporal Bones – Identification and Characterization of the DFNA17 Mutation Adam Y. Xiao, MD, PhD Achilles Kanaris, BS Shin-ya Nishio, MD Shin-ichi Usami, MD Ivan A. Lopez, PhD Gail Ishiyama, MD Akira Ishiyama, MD Macrophage and Schwann Cell Alterations in Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Insights from Human Temporal Bones Drew J. Montigny BS Soomin Myoung BS Andrew M. Jung BS Alex J. Lim Jennifer O’Malley BA Andreas Eckhard MD Alicia Quesnel MD Judith S. Kempfle MD Histopathological Considerations for Indication of Cochlear Implant for Patients with Vestibular Schwannoma Shinya Ohira, MD, PhD Ivan Lopez, PhD Maya Harary, MD Maureen Laufer, AuD Gail Ishiyama, MD Gregory P. Lekovic, MD Akira Ishiyama, MD Histopathologic Diversity in Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Multi-Institutional Temporal Bone Study Diana M. Correa, MD Michael S. Castle, MD Rafael da Costa Monsanto, MD PhD Abbie K. Hall, BS Ivan A. López, PhD William H. Slattery, MD Sebahattin Cureoglu, MD Meredith E. Adams, MD MS Akira Ishiyama, MD Alicia M. Quesnel, MD Peri-Insertional Cochlear Implant Electrode Forces for Manual Versus Rigidly-Fixed and Handheld Robotic Insertion Maxwell Bergman, MD Nathan Kemper, MD Constantinos Nikou Zachary Urdang, MD PhD Alexander Claussen, MD Bruce J. Gantz, MD Marlan R. Hansen, MD Real-time Intracochlear Distance Sensing and Navigation using Optical Coherence Tomography Pawina Jiramongkolchai, MD Senyue Hao, BS Ratul Paul, PhD AJ Adkins, MS Jacques Herzog, MD Craig Buchman, MD Chao Zhou PhD 4:05DISCUSSION with MODERATORS 4:10ANNOUNCEMENT OF AOS and ANS POSTER PRESENTATION WINNERS Bradley Kesser, MD - AOS Education Director Christine Dinh, MD - ANS Education Director 4:13EXPERT PRESENTATION Introduction by Maura K. Cosetti, MD Cellular-level Imaging of the Inner Eara Konstantina M. Stankovic, MD, PhD 4:26PANEL Can Today’s MRI Technology Transform Cholesteatoma Clinical Practice? Andrea Vambutas, MD, Moderator Nikolas H. Blevins, MD Maura E. Ryan, MD Brandon Isaacson, MD Samantha Anne, MD, MS 5:06CLOSING REMARKS/ADJOURN Nancy M. Young, MD 5:15AOS MEMBER PHOTOGRAPH 5:30MEET THE AUTHORS POSTER RECEPTION(CONVENTION CENTER) AOS, ANS, ARS & ASPO 6:00WiN RECEPTION (WOMEN IN NEUROTOLOGY)(SHERATON) 7:00ANS PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION(SHERATON) SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2026 7:00BUSINESS MEETINGincluding Committee Reports (All welcome – Coffee, tea and continental breakfast for all registered AOS attendees) 7:30SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM (Open to registered Members and Non-members – Badge required for admittance) 7:30WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT Nancy M. Young, MD 7:32INTRODUCTION OF CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARD LECTURE David M. Kaylie, MD, MS, Moderator Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Mechanism of Intracochlear Fibrosis & Neo-ossification after Cochlear Implantation Alexander D. Claussen, MD University of Iowa AOS Clinician Scientist Award Recipient, 2023-2025 7:40DISCUSSION with MODERATOR 7:42SESSION C - A MIDDLE & MASTOID MATTERS: REGENERATION, CHOLESTEATOMA & FACIAL NERVE MONITORING Erika Woodson, MD & Soha Ghossaini, MD, Moderators Randomized Double-Blinded Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial of In-Office Regeneration of Chronic Tympanic Membrane Perforations: Preliminary Results David R. Friedmann, MD, MSc Ashley Feng, BS Emmanuel Garcia-Morales, PhD Victoria Lancaster, RN Daniel Jethanamest, MD J. Thomas Roland Jr., MD Efficacy of Tympanic Membrane Regeneration Therapy for Secondary Cholesteatoma with Tympanic Membrane Perforation Shin-ichi Kanemaru, MD, PhD Tomoya Yamaguchi, MD Rie Kanai, MD Eriko Otonari, MD Maki Yamasoba, MD Yuki Fujii, MD Toshiki Maetani, MD, PhD Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Heterogeneity and Cell-Cell Interactions of Cholesteatoma Keratinocytes Daniel R. Romano, MD Song-Zhe Li, MD, PhD Richard A. Chole, MD, PhD Michael Hoa, MD Sidharth V. Puram, MD, PhD Keiko Hirose, MD Cost of Facial Nerve Monitoring Sammy Y. Gao, BS Warren B. Chun, MD Tyler M. Rist, MD Robert F. Labadie MD, PhD 8:05DISCUSSON with MODERATORS 8:09SESSION D - NEW APPROACHES & FINDINGS TO ADVANCE MANAGEMENT OF AUDIOVESTIBULAR DISEASE Christina Runge, PhD & Michael Hoa, MD, Moderators Machine Learning Identification of Hearing Loss from Natural Speech Peter R. Dixon, MD, MSc Paul Heider PhD Carl Ehrett PhD Theodore R. McRackan, MD Judy R. Dubno, PhD Leslie A. Lenert, MD, MS Electron Microscopy of Otoconia in a Hypercalcemic Mouse Model Andriy O. Grynyk, BS Callie S. Burke, BS Richard Pellegrino, MS Jessia Costa, DMD, PhD Andrew Arnold, MD Kourosh Parham, MD, PhD Kinematic Methods for Identification of Moderate Vestibular Loss Morgan A. Terry, MD Hannah R. Smith, BS Camellia K. Liu, BS Daniel B. Putterman, AuD Jae W. Lee, PhD Timothy E. Hullar, MD Angela C. Garinis, PhD Cognitive Performance Differs Among Adults with Unilateral Audiovestibular Disorders: A Pilot Study Maura K. Cosetti, MD Carly Feist, BA Liraz Aire, PhD Jen Kelly, DPT Anat Lubetzky, PT, PhD Surgical Treatments Decrease the Association Between CHL Pathologies and Depression in the All of Us Research Program Hannah N. W. Weinstein, BA S. Dillon Powell, ME Ramzi K. Elased, BA Lauren H. Tucker, MD Justin S. Golub, MD, MS 8:38DISCUSSION with MODERATORS 8:42INTRODUCTION OF SAUMIL N. MERCHANT MEMORIAL LECTURE Nancy M. Young, MD 8:44SAUMIL N. MERCHANT MEMORIAL LECTURE Hearing in High Definition: Cochlear Implants and Gene Therapy Unplugged Catherine Birman, OAM, MBBS, PhD FRACS Clinical Professor, Sydney University Faculty of Medicine and Health Macquarie University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia Royal Prince Alfred Hospital & Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney, Australia NextSense, Sydney, Australia 9:24EXPERT PRESENTATION Introduction by Yuri Agrawal, MD, MPH HearGene Connect Registry for Personalized Healthcare Ronna Hertzano, MD, PhD 9:39DISCUSSION with MODERATOR 9:42BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS 10:12EXPERT PRESENTATION Introduction by Richard K. Gurgel, MD, MSCI Imaging Imagination: Musical Creativity & the Brain Charles Limb, MD 10:29DISCUSSION with MODERATOR 10:32SESSION E - COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION - OUTCOMES & ACCESS Sharon L. Cushing, MD, MSc & Daniel Zeitler, MD, Moderators Timing of Cochlear Implantation Influences Neuropsychiatric Outcomes in Sensorineural Hearing Loss Atri Bhattacharyya, BA Judith S. Kempfle, MD Tinnitus Improvement Predicts Domain-Specific Quality of Life Gains after Cochlear Implantation Sophia Chehade, BS Tamara Mijovic, MD Emily Kay-Rivest, MD Temporal and Spectral Contributions to Music Perception Among Hearing-Assistive Device Users Emmeline Y. Lin, BS Brooke Barry, BS, BA Patpong Jiradejvong, MS Karen C. Barrett, PhD Nicole T. Jiam, MD Downstream Effects of Regulatory and Reimbursement Expansion on Cochlear Implantation: A 2012-2024 Medicare Analysis Akshay Warrier, BA Ryan Bartholomew, MD Liliya Benchetrit, MD Daniel J. Lee, MD Binaural Hearing and Language Development after Cochlear Implantation in Children with Congenital Single-Sided Deafness Piotr H. Skarzynski, MD, PhD, MSc Dorota Pastuszak, MSc Anita Obrycka, PhD Artur Lorens, Prof Anna Ratuszniak, PhD Henryk Skarzynski, Prof Spoken Language Outcomes after Early Cochlear Implantation in a Diverse, Multi-Institutional Cohort of Congenitally Deaf Children Evan J. Patel, MD Samantha Anne, MD Daniela Carvalho, MD Laura Covello, MA, CCC-A Jason Park, MD, PhD Patricia Yoon, MD Dylan K. Chan, MD, PhD 11:06DISCUSSION with MODERATORS 11:10PANEL Beyond the OR - Multidisciplinary Care to Improve CI Outcomes Nancy M. Young, MD, Moderator Kevin D. Brown, MD, PhD René H. Gifford, PhD Camille Dunn, PhD Jace Wolfe, PhD 11:55INTRODUCTION OF INCOMING PRESIDENT Nikolas H. Blevins, MD CLOSING REMARKS Nancy M. Young, MD 12:00ADJOURN