2025 NHCA Annual Conference: Venues

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.

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TBA

7:00am • Breakfast
7:00am • Registration
7:00am • Exhibit Hall
8:00am • General Session: Opening Remarks
8:15am • Keynote Speaker: What Will it take to Make America a Quieter Place?
8:45am • The Development of the Audiometric Research Tool for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
9:05am • Gaps in the Public Health Prevention of Hearing Loss in the US: findings from the Apple Hearing Study, 2019-2022
9:25am • Impacts of noise exposure history on the rate of age-related changes to hearing
9:45am • Break with Exhibitors
10:15am • Noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy: current understanding and research models
10:35am • Prevalence of Ototoxic Chemical Exposure, Occupational Noise Exposure and Hearing Difficulty Among Workers in the United States, 2023
10:55am • Updates from the NHCA Task Force on Hearing Protector Fit Testing
11:15am • Update from the NHCA Task Force on the Use of Equivalent Rectangular Bands in Audiometric Testing
11:35am • NHCA Annual Business Meeting
12:20pm • Luncheon Speaker: Anthropogenic Ocean Noise and It's Effect on Marine Mammals
1:50pm • Student Musicians, Hearing Loss, and Hearing Protection Behaviors: The Impact of Educational Approaches on Attitudes Toward and Uptake of Hearing Protection
2:10pm • Sound Quality and Music Perception of Custom Passive and Uniform Fit Electronic Musician's Hearing Protection Devices
2:30pm • Purchasing Power Tools: Attitudes on Noise as a Purchase Factor
2:50pm • Interstate Practice and ASLP-IC
3:10pm • Break with Exhibitors
3:40pm • Sustainability and Hearing Protection Devices: Introducing the Product Category Rule
4:00pm • Assessment of Noise-Related Health Risk in Dental Professionals: A Comprehensive Study
4:20pm • Audiograms don’t tell the whole story. Challenges faced by a firefighter and approaches to prevent hearing loss from ototoxicants
4:40pm • An overview of the World Health Organization Make Listening Safe Initiative
5:00pm • 2025 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Awards™
5:45pm • Poster Session
6:30pm • Student/New Member Meet & Greet
7:00pm • Exhibitor Reception