August 13th & 14th, 2026 

This course will be in-person and virtual 

The course will be TENTATIVELY held in the Oto Clinic Alumni Conference room (elevator L; 2nd Floor)  (21271 PFP) at the university hospital campus, 200 Hawkins Dr. Iowa City, IA. Parking ramps 2 & 4 are the closest to the venue.

 The option to attend virtually is on the registration page. The price is the same to attend in-person or virtually. An email with a link to attend virtually will be sent the week of the conference.

Sponsors

  • The University of Iowa Department of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery
  • The University of Iowa Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Intended Audience and Purpose

This is the 33rd Annual International Conference on the MANANGEMENT OF THE TINNITUS AND HYPERACUSIS PATIENT.  Invited presenters are from around the world, and focus on understanding the mechanisms, and understanding the problems of hearing, sleep, concentration, and thoughts/emotions.  Updates on in-person and remote counseling are reviewed from different perspectives.  Companies explain and demonstrate their latest approaches for wearables.   New approaches and research needs are discussed.

The conference is important because it brings together researchers, clinicians and people suffering.   They each learn from the others perspective.  Researchers better understand the needs.  Clinicians are exposed to other novel helping approaches.  People suffering learn about others experiencing similar issues and view the variety of approaches and how different clinicians and researchers with different backgrounds interact in an attempt to move the field forward

Registration Fees:

Physician: $595

Other healthcare professionals: $395

Tinnitus patients and students: $99

Overview

Intended: for otologists, audiologists, hearing aid specialists, psychologists, and all health care professionals

Guest of Honor

Sara Downs, AuD – Active Sound Therapy: Integrated Tinnitus Treatment Protocol

Special Presentations

  • Emma Meade, MBA, MSc – Bimodal Neuromodulation for tinnitus
  • Julia Campbell, PhD, AuD – Tinnitus Clinical use of Auditory Gating
  • Marc A. Fagelson, PhD – Musicians and others in the music biz
  • Brittany Grayless, AuD – Tinnitus and Hope

  • Patrick A. Lynch, MBA – American Tinnitus Association

  • Anna P. de Barros, PhD – Tinnitus Web Survey

  • Kelly Assouly, PhD – Cochlear Implants for Tinnitus

  • Rebecca Squire – Hyperacusis Has Changed My Life

  • Kayla Sanders – Tinnitus + Chronic Pain Rehabilitation 

  • Dominique Enjolras + Michael Boedts, MD– Clomipramine for Hyperacusis

  • Fatima Husain, PhD–Neuroimaging of Hyperacusis

  • Kirupa Suthakar, PhD–Serotonergic Neuromodulation 

  • Rich Tyler, PhD– Questionnaires + Clinical Trial Designs

  • Kelly Jahn, PhD + Saad Yousuf, PhD
     – Helping Tinnitus and Hyperacusis patients

       –Pain Hyperacusis: Patient Insights and Mechanisms 

  • Gail Whitelaw, PhD – Tinnitus in Children
  • Nicholas Giuliani, AuD – Objective Arousal Markers in Chronic Tinnitus 

  • Joel Berger, PhD – Intracranial recordings during tinnitus suppression

  • Claudia Coelho, MD, PhD – Cervico-Trigeminal Modulation -Somatosensory Tinnitus

  • Patricia Mancini, PhD – Self-help for Hyperacusis Patients

  • Ishan Bhatt, PhD – Genetic of Annoyance Hyperacusis

  • Wei Sun, PhD – Neural Mechanisms of Hyperacusis

  • Ann Perreau, PhD–Remote Counseling+ Sound Therapy for Hyperacusis 

  • Nicole Anzalone, AuD –  Tinnitus Standards for Clinicians 

 

Cost

  • Physician – $595
  • Audiologists, Hearing Aid Specialists, Nurses, Residents, Company Reps and other health care professionals – $395
  • Tinnitus Patients and Students – $99

Industry Representatives

  • Lynnette Bardolf, PhD – Neuromonics
  • Joe Sipos – Hyperacusis Research + Tinnitus Quest

  • Nicolas Gninenko, PhD – Neurosoft-Bioelectronics

  • Matt Lopez, Sales Director – Levo Medical

  • Amanda Albertsen, AuD – Widex-Signia

  • Shannon Basham, AuD – Neuromod

     

 

Group Discussions

Rich Tyler – Artificial Intelligence – the Future ??

Sponsors

Gold

  • Neuromod
  • Neuromonics

Diamond

  • ATA
  • Cochlear

Silver

  • Signia - Widex