2025 NHCA Annual Conference

2025 NHCA Annual Conference

We are excited to have you join us for an amazing educational line up, check out the agenda below for the 2025 Conference. Please note that this agenda is subject to change.

7:00am EST

Breakfast TBA Registration TBA

8:00am EST

Hearing Conservation Program Basics, Fundamentals, and More (am) TBA Hearing Protector Fit Test Workshop TBA Update in Music Audiology TBA

11:00am EST

Lunch on Your Own TBA

1:00pm EST

Hearing Conservation Program Basics, Fundementals, and More (pm) TBA Hearing Protector Fit Test Workshop TBA Update in Music Audiology TBA

7:00am EST

Breakfast TBA Exhibit Hall TBA Registration TBA

8:00am EST

General Session: Opening Remarks TBA

8:15am EST

Keynote Speaker: What Will it take to Make America a Quieter Place? TBA

8:45am EST

The Development of the Audiometric Research Tool for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) TBA

9:05am EST

Gaps in the Public Health Prevention of Hearing Loss in the US: findings from the Apple Hearing Study, 2019-2022 TBA

9:25am EST

Impacts of noise exposure history on the rate of age-related changes to hearing TBA

9:45am EST

Break with Exhibitors TBA

10:15am EST

Noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy: current understanding and research models TBA

10:35am EST

Prevalence of Ototoxic Chemical Exposure, Occupational Noise Exposure and Hearing Difficulty Among Workers in the United States, 2023 TBA

10:55am EST

Updates from the NHCA Task Force on Hearing Protector Fit Testing TBA

11:15am EST

Update from the NHCA Task Force on the Use of Equivalent Rectangular Bands in Audiometric Testing TBA

11:35am EST

NHCA Annual Business Meeting TBA

12:20pm EST

Luncheon Speaker: Anthropogenic Ocean Noise and It's Effect on Marine Mammals TBA

1:50pm EST

Student Musicians, Hearing Loss, and Hearing Protection Behaviors: The Impact of Educational Approaches on Attitudes Toward and Uptake of Hearing Protection TBA

2:10pm EST

Sound Quality and Music Perception of Custom Passive and Uniform Fit Electronic Musician's Hearing Protection Devices TBA

2:30pm EST

Purchasing Power Tools: Attitudes on Noise as a Purchase Factor TBA

2:50pm EST

Interstate Practice and ASLP-IC TBA

3:10pm EST

Break with Exhibitors TBA

3:40pm EST

Sustainability and Hearing Protection Devices: Introducing the Product Category Rule TBA

4:00pm EST

Assessment of Noise-Related Health Risk in Dental Professionals: A Comprehensive Study TBA

4:20pm EST

Audiograms don’t tell the whole story. Challenges faced by a firefighter and approaches to prevent hearing loss from ototoxicants TBA

4:40pm EST

An overview of the World Health Organization Make Listening Safe Initiative TBA

5:00pm EST

2025 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Awards™ TBA

5:45pm EST

Poster Session TBA

6:30pm EST

Student/New Member Meet & Greet TBA

7:00pm EST

Exhibitor Reception TBA

7:30am EST

Breakfast TBA Exhibit Hall TBA Registration TBA

8:30am EST

Poster Session TBA

9:30am EST

The Hearing Protection Optimizing Tool: Eliminating Guesswork in Hearing Protection Selection TBA Personal Attenuation Rating for Self-Inserted Earplugs: Effects of Experience TBA Characterization of Auditory Risk Factors in Impulsive Noise Environments TBA

9:55am EST

Left or right? Level-dependent hearing protectors can alter the sound perception towards the wrong direction TBA Comparison of PAR values obtained from traditional REAT testing and neck-based fit testing for an aviation headset TBA Estimating firearm sound levels conducted via the bone/tissue pathway using accelerometer recordings made with an anatomic head simulator TBA

10:15am EST

Break with Exhibitors TBA

10:45am EST

Subject-Fit Performance of a Dynamic Toroidal Earplug TBA Advancing OSHA Compliance: Mobile Testing, Data Security and Boothless Solutions for the Modern Workforce TBA DuoDose: a body-worn dosimeter for impulse noise environments TBA

11:10am EST

A simple calculation method for assessing the sound exposure from communication devices and earphones TBA No booth? No Problem. Using Boothless Audiometers for H-Con Testing. TBA In-Ear Dosimetry for Continuous and Impulse Noise TBA

11:40am EST

Luncheon Awards TBA

1:10pm EST

Gasaway Lecture: Why is Everything So Loud? TBA

1:40pm EST

HPD Fit Testing: Results from the U.S. National Rapid Surveys System TBA

2:00pm EST

Implementation of Hearing Protector Fit Testing – Insights and Best Practices TBA

2:20pm EST

Hearing Protector Fit Testing, Boothless Audiometry and Ambient Background Noise. TBA

2:40pm EST

Evaluating Personal Attenuation Rating as a Predictor for Risk of Service-related Auditory Injury TBA

3:00pm EST

WAHTS: a Multi-User Hearing Protection Fit Test System with Integrated Education TBA

3:20pm EST

Break with Exhibitors TBA

3:35pm EST

A Quick and REAT-Predictive Leak-and-Attenuation Test Alternative for In-Field Verification of Earplug Quality of Fit TBA

3:55pm EST

Validating hearing aid algorithms for use in digital hearing protectors to improve speech intelligibility in workers with mild to moderate hearing loss TBA

4:15pm EST

Test Method for Evaluating the NIOSH Noise Mapper Application in a Hemi-Anechoic Chamber TBA

4:35pm EST

Measuring and modeling speech intelligibility in listening conditions with level-dependent hearing protection devices TBA

4:55pm EST

General Session: Closing Remarks TBA