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PRESENTATIONS

The National Institutes of Health Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, colloquially known as WALS, is the highest-profile lecture program at the NIH.  Watch ACHIEVE study co-PI Frank Lin's WALS presentation, Hearing Loss and Dementia: From Epidemiological Insights to the ACHIEVE Trial and Public Policy in the U.S.

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EVENTS

ACHIEVE study results have been shared at events around the world:

October 11-13, 2023, Chiba, Japan:  Co-PI Frank Lin, MD, PhD gave the Overseas Invited Lecture on the relationship between hearing loss and dementia at the 68th Congress of the Japan Audiological Society before making a special presentation to the National Diet (parliament) of Japan.

October 20, 2023, Sydney, Australia:  Lin presented at Macquarie University.

November 2-5, 2023, Bonita Springs, Florida:  Lin presented "An Overview of Outcomes" at two Featured Keynote Sessions at AudAcity 2023, the Academy of Doctors of Audiology annual meeting, and ACHIEVE study co-authors Nicholas Reed, AuD, PhD and Vicky Sanchez, AuD presented Practical Implications for Audiologists.

November 8-11, 2023 Seoul, Korea: Lin offered the Plenary Lecture at the 14th Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implant and Related Sciences, hosted by the Korean Otological Society.

November 8-12, 2023, Tampa, Florida: ACHIEVE researchers presented study results at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.

FEATURED ARTICLES

Lin Presents ACHIEVE Study Results to Japan’s National Diet

While in Tokyo to present ACHIEVE study results as part of the Overseas Invited Lecture at the 68th Congress of the Japan Audiological Society, study Co-PI Frank Lin made a special presentation to Japanese lawmakers.

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ACHIEVE Study Main Focus Results to be Presented at Upcoming Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Amsterdam

Frank Lin, MD, PhD and Josef Coresh, MD, PhD (study co-principal investigators) will present results of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elder (ACHIEVE) study at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Amsterdam on July 18, 2023. 

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ACHIEVE study main focus results to be presented at four upcoming conferences

ACHIEVE study results will be shared with clinicians in Korea, Japan, and Florida, USA. 

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IN THE NEWS

How treatment for hearing loss can help reduce risk of dementia. Maria Shriver reports for NBC's TODAY.