Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee
René Gifford, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is currently the Director of the Cochlear Implant Program at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center in the Division of Audiology as well as the Director of the Cochlear Implant Research Laboratory. Her research interests include speech and auditory perception via combined electric and acoustic stimulation (EAS), patient-specific variables impacting postoperative outcomes, and spatial hearing abilities of individuals combining hearing aids and cochlear implants. Dr. Gifford’s research has been NIH funded for 20 years, she has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles, multiple book chapters, and she authored a book, now in its second edition, entitled “Cochlear Implant Patient Assessment: Evaluation of Candidacy, Performance, and Outcomes.” Dr. Gifford is also the 2021 recipient of the AAA Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology.
Financial Disclosures: Advanced Bionics- Consultant/Advisory Board, Research Grant includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received; Akouos- Consultant/Advisory Board; Cochlear- Consultant/Advisory Board, Research Grant includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received; Frequency Therapeutics- Consultant/Advisory Board
Non-Financial Disclosures: I do not have any relevant non-financial relationships with anything to disclose.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
Friday, April 1, 2022
7:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT