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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.
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Ted Madison
Midwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety
Course Director
Minneapolis MN
mcohs.umn.edu/continuing-education/
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CAOHC course director. Dangerous Decibels educator. Safe-In-Sound Award committee member. Past-President NHCA
Friday
, February 7
7:00am EST
Breakfast
Crystal CDEF
Exhibit Hall
Crystal Foyer
8:00am EST
General Session: Opening Remarks
Crystal CDEF
8:15am EST
Keynote Speaker: What Will it take to Make America a Quieter Place?
Crystal CDEF
8:45am EST
The Development of the Audiometric Research Tool for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
Crystal CDEF
9:05am EST
Gaps in the Public Health Prevention of Hearing Loss in the US: findings from the Apple Hearing Study, 2019-2022
Crystal CDEF
9:25am EST
Impacts of noise exposure history on the rate of age-related changes to hearing
Crystal CDEF
9:45am EST
Break with Exhibitors
Crystal Foyer
10:15am EST
Noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy: current understanding and research models
Crystal CDEF
11:35am EST
NHCA Annual Business Meeting
Crystal CDEF
12:20pm EST
Luncheon Speaker: Anthropogenic Ocean Noise and It's Effect on Marine Mammals
Crystal CDEF
1:50pm EST
Student Musicians, Hearing Loss, and Hearing Protection Behaviors: The Impact of Educational Approaches on Attitudes Toward and Uptake of Hearing Protection
Crystal CDEF
2:10pm EST
Sound Quality and Music Perception of Custom Passive and Uniform Fit Electronic Musician's Hearing Protection Devices
Crystal CDEF
2:30pm EST
Updates from the NHCA Task Force on Hearing Protector Fit Testing
Crystal CDEF
2:50pm EST
Interstate Practice and ASLP-IC
Crystal CDEF
3:10pm EST
Break with Exhibitors
Crystal Foyer
3:40pm EST
Sustainability and Hearing Protection Devices: Introducing the Product Category Rule
Crystal CDEF
4:00pm EST
Assessment of Noise-Related Health Risk in Dental Professionals: A Comprehensive Study
Crystal CDEF
4:20pm EST
An overview of the World Health Organization Make Listening Safe Initiative
Crystal CDEF
4:40pm EST
Audiograms don’t tell the whole story. Challenges faced by a firefighter and approaches to prevent hearing loss from ototoxicants
Crystal CDEF
5:00pm EST
2025 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Awards™
Crystal CDEF
5:45pm EST
Poster Session
Crystal AB
7:00pm EST
Exhibitor Reception
Crystal Foyer
Saturday
, February 8
7:30am EST
Breakfast
Crystal CDEF
Exhibit Hall
Crystal Foyer
8:30am EST
The Hearing Protection Optimizing Tool: Eliminating Guesswork in Hearing Protection Selection
Crystal C
Advancing OSHA Compliance: Mobile Testing, Data Security and Boothless Solutions for the Modern Workforce
Crystal D
8:50am EST
Left or right? Level-dependent hearing protectors can alter the sound perception towards the wrong direction
Crystal C
9:30am EST
A simple calculation method for assessing the sound exposure from communication devices and earphones
Crystal C
9:50am EST
Break with Exhibitors
Crystal Foyer
10:30am EST
Poster Session
Crystal AB
11:40am EST
Luncheon Awards
Crystal CDEF
1:10pm EST
Gasaway Lecture: Why is Everything So Loud?
Crystal CDEF
2:00pm EST
Implementation of Hearing Protector Fit Testing – Insights and Best Practices
Crystal CDEF
2:20pm EST
Hearing Protector Fit Testing, Boothless Audiometry and Ambient Background Noise.
Crystal CDEF
2:40pm EST
Evaluating Personal Attenuation Rating as a Predictor for Risk of Service-related Auditory Injury
Crystal CDEF
3:00pm EST
WAHTS: a Multi-User Hearing Protection Fit Test System with Integrated Education
Crystal CDEF
3:35pm EST
A Quick and REAT-Predictive Leak-and-Attenuation Test Alternative for In-Field Verification of Earplug Quality of Fit
Crystal CDEF
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
Crystal CDEF
4:35pm EST
Measuring and modeling speech intelligibility in listening conditions with level-dependent hearing protection devices
Crystal CDEF
4:55pm EST
General Session: Closing Remarks
Crystal CDEF
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