Sharon Cushing is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and paediatric otolaryngologist at The Hospital for Sick Children where she is Director of the Cochlear Implant Program.

Dr. Cushing has a clinical and surgical interest in disorders of the external, middle and inner ear, including hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction. Her research interests include vestibular and balance function and dysfunction in children, and its association with hearing loss and cochlear implantation.

Karen Gordon is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and audiologist in the Cochlear Implant Program at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is also the Cochlear Americas Chair in Auditory Development and a Bastable-Potts Health Clinician Scientist in Hearing Impairment.

Dr. Gordon's research focuses on auditory development in children who are deaf and use cochlear implants. Her early work examined the role of a unilateral implant to promote changes in the auditory brainstem, thalamus, and cortex. She has also examined ways to improve auditory development and hearing for children who are deaf through the use of bilateral cochlear implants.

Sharon Cushing is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and paediatric otolaryngologist at The Hospital for Sick Children where she is Director of the Cochlear Implant Program.

Dr. Cushing has a clinical and surgical interest in disorders of the external, middle and inner ear, including hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction. Her research interests include vestibular and balance function and dysfunction in children, and its association with hearing loss and cochlear implantation.

Karen Gordon is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and audiologist in the Cochlear Implant Program at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is also the Cochlear Americas Chair in Auditory Development and a Bastable-Potts Health Clinician Scientist in Hearing Impairment.

Dr. Gordon's research focuses on auditory development in children who are deaf and use cochlear implants. Her early work examined the role of a unilateral implant to promote changes in the auditory brainstem, thalamus, and cortex. She has also examined ways to improve auditory development and hearing for children who are deaf through the use of bilateral cochlear implants.

Prof. Dr. Myrthe Hol completed her medical studies in Utrecht (1995-2002) and her ENT residency (2003-2009) at the Radboud University Medical Center at Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2005 she completed her PhD with the thesis: “BAHA - New indications and long-term patient satisfaction”. Later she went to Lucerne, Switzerland, for a fellowship in otology under the guidance of Prof. Linder and Prof. Fisch. In the period between January 2010 and 2021 she has been working as a staff member at the ENT department of the Radboud UMC, focusing on otology with particular attention to titanium temporal bone implants (BI) and auricular reconstructions. She was responsible for the chain BI (bone implants/formerly BAHA) and MEI (middle ear implants) within Hearing & Implants and for the planning and chief OR management within the ENT department. During that period (2010-2020) she was a member of the faculty of the Nijmegen Ear Surgery Course and the Recklinghausen Ear Reconstruction course and a board member of the Dutch Society of Audiology.

She was president of the 6th international congress on bone conduction hearing and related technologies. Osseo2017: 17-20th May and the Dutch protocol committee for Bone Conduction Devices (2015-2018) and the Dutch Otologic Quality registry (2017 – 2020 & 2024-2026). She was vicepresident of EAONO2024 (Nijmegen). Prof. Dr. Myrthe Hol is a member of the International Society for Auricular Reconstruction amongst others and currently part of the organizing committee of the ISAR2027 meeting in Utrecht. She is president of the centennial CORLAS meeting in Groningen 2026.

She supervises several PhD students and carries out research among others, on the various titanium implants for bone conduction hearing devices, microtia, atresia, auricular prostheses, auricular reconstructions, single sided deafness (SSD), directional hearing and quality of life. She is part of the international Healthy Hearing Ears initiative. She worked one term as head of department ENT in Groningen (www.umcg.nl) and is since April 1st working as professor in ENT, Otology, Rijks Universiteit Groningen (www.rug.nl). Her inaugural lecture in Dutch ‘Horen is meer dan oren’ was May 26th 2023.

Enjoys a broad, tertiary adult and paediatric otologic practice.
Has a wealth of experience in auditory rehabilitation through surgical placement of bone conduction devices.
Co-hosted the first OSSEO conference in Halifax in 2007.
Was an early proponent of ‘out of the operating room’ surgeries under local anaesthesia.

Aaron Remenschneider, MD MPH is a board-certified neurotologist and scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Massachusetts Eye and Ear, and an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Remenschneider treats both pediatric and adult patients with chronic ear disease, hearing loss, and skull base tumors with a focus on middle ear reconstruction, cochlear implantation and bone conduction devices. His NIH-funded research has focused on the mechanics of the human middle ear and involves the study of human otopathology, the quantification of sound transfer in normal and reconstructed ears and the development of new diagnostics and therapeutics for patients with middle ear disease.

Mario E. Zernotti is professor of ENT at Catholic University of Córdoba and National University of Villa Maria, and also professor of Clinics of Hearing at National University of Córdoba. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field of ear surgery in Sanatorium Allende. He was the pioneer in electro acoustic stimulation (EAS) and hearing preservation in all America, doing the first cases of EAS cochlear implants in the continent. Besides, his team was the first to did Active Middle Ear Implants and bone conductive prosthesis in the region. This group is working specially in atresia/microtia patients, very common malformation in South-America, and northwest of Argentina, doing a comprehensive approach to the problem. Member of Hearring, President of GCIAN (Global Cochlear Implant Access Network), President of the 8th World Congress on CI in Emerging Nations (2024) and the VII International Conference on Otosclerosis 2027