4th FRENCH-BRAZILIAN

SYMPOSIUM ON HEARING
AND BALANCE

Practical tools from research to prevention and diagnosis

BELO HORIZONTE – 22nd and 23rd of June, 2023

PRESENTATION

Awareness is growing worldwide that hearing and balance deficits involve prominent and potentially costly health issues, with alarming figures for the next few decades, as acknowledged by the World Health Organization. New data from research laboratories teach us that more situations are at risk than formerly believed. 

This 4th French Brazilian Symposium on Hearing and Balance will examine the challenges raised by prevention and diagnosis in three different frameworks: balance deficits in children, adults and elderly people; excessive exposure to amplified music in young adults; and atypical hearing impairments represented by auditory neuropathies throughout the lifetime. 

The early diagnosis of these disorders rests upon up-to-date theoretical knowledge of the pathophysiology, for guiding the proper use of precise techniques. How these can be implemented with minimal equipment will be one common theme of all sessions of the 4th French Brazilian Symposium on Hearing and Balance. 

Prevention, as well as intervention, completed, in the near future, by specific therapies will also require thorough diagnostic procedures, much more extensive than a few decades ago yet sustainable, hence the need for consensual development of simple, user-friendly procedures addressed in this congress.

The live scientific program will feature lectures, round tables, workshops and poster sessions. Lectures delivered by internationally renowned invited scientists will be in English or Portuguese with simultaneous translation. 

The symposium will also offer an opportunity for undergraduate, graduate students and professionals to present their research studies. After evaluation by a scientific committee, awards will be granted to the best presentations.

You can’t miss this opportunity to enlarge your practical knowledge and participate in building a new clinical audiology: see you next June 2023 in Belo Horizonte!

REGISTRATION

CLICK HERE to register.

Audience Investiment (R$)
Undergraduate and graduate studentsR$ 130,00
 ProfessionalsR$ 350,00

 

SUBMISSION

NEW DEADLINE: April 24, until 23h59, Brasilia time.

Guidelines for abstract submission

  1. Summaries should be sent only through the Symposium’s official website.

  2. Abstracts should be presented in ENGLISH.

  3. The abstracts should preferably contemplate at least one of the themes of the Symposium: Balance and/or Noise

  4. The word limit of the title is 15.

  5. The word limit in the abstract is 350, arial font 12, simple space, justified and including: introduction, objectives, methods, results and conclusions.

  6. Abstracts should not contain references, charts, tables or images.

  7. Research involving human subjects should indicate the registration number of the Ethics Committee. If there is a Support Fund, please make it clear. 

Criteria for evaluation of abstracts

  • Abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Evaluation Committee.

  • The members of the Evaluation Committee will have access to the abstracts without identification of authorship or institution.

Presentation

  • The scientific committee is responsible for ranking the papers according to the reviewers’ average score. 
  • Posters will be presented on June 22 and 23. The indication of the day and time of the poster presentation will be sent by e-mail to the author responsible for the presentation until 15 days before the event.

Presentation guidelines

Guidelines for poster composition and presentation will be communicated at the same time as the announcement of approved abstracts.

Results announcement

  • The author responsible for the submission will receive the result by e-mail. 
  • For all abstracts accepted for presentation, at least the presenting author must be registered for the event.

Prize
The two best papers will be awarded
1st place: R$ 1000,00 
2nd place: R$ 500,00

The announcement of the winning works will take place during the Farewell Ceremony.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Local do evento / Event Address:

Faculdade de Medicina da UFMG, Av. Prof. Alfredo Balena, 190, Santa Efigênia, Belo Horizonte – MG

In case of any doubt, please contact: symposiumonhearing.frbr@gmail.com

CERTIFICATES

The certificates will be issued electronically. Once the certificates are available, participants will be notified by email.

The forecast for delivering the certificates is 30 days after the event.

PROGRAM

Brasilia Time

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

8:00 – 9:00 am

CHECKIN

9:00 – 9:30 am

OPENING CEREMONY

·         Pr Alamanda Kfoury Pereira (Director of the Medicine School – UFMG)

·         Dr Vincent Nédélec (Attache for Cooperation and Cultural Action of the French Embassy for the Minas Gerais, Brazil)

·         Pr Denise Brandão de Oliveira e Britto (Head of the Department of Speech Therapy at the Medicine School – UFMG)

·         Pr Luciana Macedo de Resende (Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Audiology and Speech Therapy Sciences at the Medicine School – UFMG)

·         Speech therapist Isabella Carolina Santos Bicalho (President of the 6th Regional Council of Speech Therapy)

·         Pr Paul Avan (French president of the 4h FBSH, Institut de l’Audition-Institut Pasteur-Paris (IDA) /  University Clermont-Auvergne (UCA) – France

·         Pr. Sirley Alves da Silva Carvalho (Brazilian president of the 4h FBSH, titular professor of the Department of Speech Therapy at the Medicine School – UFMG

OPENING LECTURE

9:30 – 10:15 am

Theme: Old ears, new explorations 

Pr Paul AVAN (Institut de l’Audition – Institut Pasteur-Paris (IDA)/ University Clermont-Auvergne (UCA) – FRANCE)

Session 1: VESTIBULAR EXPLORATION 

(Coordinator:  Dr Anna Paula AVILA (ENT- HC/UFMG – BRAZIL)

10:15 –11:15 am

Dr Sylvette WIENER-VACHER (ENT – Robert Debré University Hospital – FRANCE) 

Theme: Comprehensive testing of infants: HOW I DO IT?

11:15 – 11:45 am

Pr Denise UTSCH GONÇALVES (ENT – UFMG – BRASIL) 

Theme: Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation as a tool to rehabilitate postural imbalance

11h45 – 12h45

VISIT  STANDS 

VISIT TO POSTERS (Coordinator: Dr Izabel Miranda) – Room – 016

12:45 – 1:45 pm

LUNCH

1:45 – 2:45 pm

PANEL 1 – CHALLENGES OF INFANT HEARING LOSS DIAGNOSIS –  Nobre Hall

Coordinator: Ms Cintia Santos Silva MACHADO (Speech therapist and audiologist – PUC – BRAZIL) 

·         Dr Ana Luiza de Freitas REZENDE (Speech therapist and audiologist – UFMG – BRAZIL) 

·         Dr Isamara Simas de Oliveira PENA (ENT – HC/UFMG – BRAZIL) 

·         Ms Ana Carolina Andrade VALADARES (Speech therapist and audiologist – UFMG – BRAZIL) 

 

PANEL 2 – INFANT SENSORY DEVELOPMENT – Room 062

Coordinator: Pr Sirley CARVALHO (Audiologist – UFMG- BRAZIL) 

·         Dr Erika PARLATO (Speech therapist – Université de Paris – FRANCE) 

·         Dr Galton Carvalho VASCONCELOS (Ophthalmologist – UFMG – BRAZIL)

·         Dr Renata Furlan (Speech therapist – UFMG – BRAZIL)

Session 2: AMPLIFIED MUSIC : MORE QUALITY = LESS RISK

Coordinator: Christian HUGONNET (Sound Engineer and President of “Association Semaine du Son” – FRANCE)

2:45 – 3:45 pm

PART 1

·         Dr Christian HUGONNET (Sound Engineer and President of “Association Semaine du Son” – FRANCE) 

Theme: The issue of sound quality

·         Dr Thamara DOS SANTOS (Speech therapist and audiologist – UFMG – BRAZIL) 

Theme: Compressed vs non compressed music, different effects on auditory function?  

·         Dr Amélia Augusta de Lima FRICHE (Speech therapist – UFMG – BRAZIL) 

Theme: Urban noise

3:45 – 4:30 pm

PART 2 – Scientific Forum: LA SEMAINE DU SON DE L’UNESCO

  • Dr Christian HUGONNET (Sound Engineer and President of “Association Semaine du Son” – FRANCE)
  • Dr Thamara DOS SANTOS (Speech therapist and audiologist – UFMG – BRAZIL)
  • Dr Isabella Monteiro de Castro SILVA (Audiologist – UNB – BRAZIL)
  • Pr Werner Augusto Gomes da Silveira (Musician of Philharmonic Orchestra of Minas Gerais, BRAZIL)

4:30 – 5:30 pm

VISIT  STANDS 

VISIT TO POSTERS (Coordinator: Dr Andrezza Gonzalez Escarce) – Room 016

Session 3: COCHLEAR IMPLANT AND MUSIC

Coordinator: Dr Patrícia COTTA MANCINI (Audiologist UFMG – BRAZIL) 

5:30 – 6:15 pm

·         Dr Maria Valéria SCHMIDT GOFFI-GOMES (Audiologist – HC-USP – BRAZIL)
Theme: Challenges for identifying vocal and musical emotion in cochlear implant users

·         Dr Celso GONÇALVES BECKER (ENT – UFMG- BRAZIL)
Theme: Cochlear implant and music

6:15 pm

Cultural presentation

 

Brasilia Time

FRIDAY, JUNE – 23

Session 4: AUDITORY NEUROPATHY: CURRENT CHALLENGES

9:00 – 10:00 am

PART 1

Coordinator: Pr Naïma DEGGOUJ (ENT- Catholic University of Louvain, BELGIUM)

·         Pr Naïma DEGGOUJ (ENT- Catholic University of Louvain, BELGIUM)
Theme: Current clinical issues: How do I suspect that a patient suffers from auditory neuropathy

·         Pr Paul AVAN (Institut de l’Audition- Institut Pasteur-Paris (IDA) / University Clermont-Auvergne (UCA) – FRANCE)
Theme: The different categories of auditory neuropathies: presynaptic, synaptic, postsynaptic, metabolic

·         Dr Joel LAVINSKY (ENT – UFRGS – BRAZIL)
Theme: Genetic Architecture of the Cochlear Synaptopathy

10:00 – 11:00 am

PART 2
Coordinator:
  Pr Luciana Macedo de RESENDE (Audiologist – UFMG – BRAZIL)

·         Dr Fabrice GIRAUDET (Researcher University Clermont Auvergne (UCA) – Audiologist AUDIKA – FRANCE)
Theme: Synaptopathy: from animal model to electrophysiological identification in human

·         Pr Pedro DE LEMOS MENEZES (Audiologist – UNCISAL – BRAZIL)
Theme: Objective central exploration of auditory neuropathies

·         Dr Mariana Moreira de Castro DENARO (ENT HC/UFMG- EBSERH – BRAZIL)
Theme: Auditory neuropathies : Cochlear implantation or hearing aids?

11:00 – 12:30 am

VISIT  STANDS

12:30 – 1:30 pm

LUNCH

1:30 – 2:15 pm

PANEL 3 – AUDITORY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WITH RISK INDICATORS FOR HEARING LOSS – 062 room
Coordinator:
  Dr Ana Cristina de Oliveira AMARES GUIA (Audiologist – Belo Horizonte – BRAZIL)

·         Dr Stela Maris AGUIAR LEMOS (Speech therapist and audiologist – UFMG- BRASIL)

·         Dr Ana Lívia LIBARDI BERTACHINI (Speech therapist and audiologist – UFMG- BRAZIL)

 

PANEL 4 – INTERFACE BETWEEN TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH – Nobre Hall
Coordinator: Dr. Luciana Mendonça ALVES
 (Speech therapist – UFMG- BRAZIL)

·         Pr Eduardo ROMEIRO FILHO (Production Engineering Department – UFMG)

·         Dr Gabriela Cintra Januário (Audiologist– SES: State Department of Health of MG)

·         Ms Raimundo de OLIVEIRA NETO (Speech therapist – Municipal Secretary of Health of Belo Horizonte)

Session 5: SCIENTIFIC FORUM –  AUDITORY NEUROPATHY: What next?

 Coordinator: Dr Thierry MORLET (Researcher, Audiologist – duPont Hospital Wilmington – USA) 

2:15 – 3:30 am

Introductio: Dr. Thierry MORLET  (Researcher, Audiologist – duPont Hospital Wilmington – USA) 

 

Debate/Argument/Controversies:  

·         Pr Pedro de Lemos MENEZES (Audiologist – UNCISAL – BRAZIL)

·         Pr Naïma DEGGOUJ (ENT – Catholic University of Louvain – BELGIUM)

·         Dr Luciana Macedo de RESENDE (Audiologist – UFMG– BRAZIL)

·         Dr Mariana Moreira de Castro DENARO (ENT – UFMG – BRAZIL)

·         Dr JoEl LAVINSKY (ORL – UFRGS – BRAZIL

·         Pr Paul AVAN (Institut de l’Audition- Institut Pasteur-Paris (IDA) / University Clermont-Auvergne (UCA) – FRANCE

·         Dr Fabrice GIRAUDET (Researcher University Clermont Auvergne (UCA) – Audiologist AUDIKA – FRANCE)

3:30 – 4:15 am

VISIT  STANDS AND VISIT TO POSTERS

Session 6 –  MUSICIAN AND TINNITUS: ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION

Coordinator: Dr. Ludimila LABANCA (Audiologist – UFMG – BRAZIL)

4:15 – 6:00 pm

·         Dr Isabella SILVA  (Audiologist UNB – BRAZIL)
Theme: Tinnitus in young users of headphones

·         Dr Marco Aurélio dos ROCHA SANTOS (ENT – UFMG)
Theme: Hyperacusis

·         Dr Renata Mota Mamede CARVALLO (Audiologist – USP – BRAZIL)
Theme: Tinnitus and subtle damage to cochlear function

·         Dr Ronaldo Kennedy de Paula MOREIRA (ENT – UFMG)
Theme: Musician and tinnitus: assessment and intervention

·         Dra. Gisele Munhoes dos Santos (Audiologist – BRAZIL)
Theme:  What is Notch therapy and what is its relationship with music and tinnitus?

6:00 – 6:30 pm

Award winning posters presented at 4th FBSH

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