Hearing Conservation in the Music Industry – Benj Kanters, Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Audio Arts & Acoustics,Columbia College Chicago, founder, HearTomorrow.Org

Engineering Solutions to Hearing Protection – Mead Killion, Etymotic Research, Inc.

The Biology of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss – M. Charles Liberman, Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA.

Designing Hearing Conservation: Now and for the Future – Lynne Marshall, Ph.D., Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, CT

Military Operational Noise: Impact and Solutions – Kurt Yankaskas, Office of Naval Research, Arlington VA

Subcellular and Neuronal Responses to Age-Related and Noise-Induced Damage of Hair Cells – Jaime García-Añoveros, Departments of Anesthesiology, Physiology and Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

Neural Repair After Noise Exposure – Donna S. Whitlon, Department of Otolaryngology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

Hearing Impairment and Outer Hair Cell Death – Jing Zheng, Department of Otolaryngology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.