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.

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

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

3:40pm 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

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

3:35pm 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