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Biography: Dr. Mark R. Schleiss, Professor of Pediatrics, holds the American Legion and Auxiliary Endowed Chair at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School. Dr. Schleiss has been actively researching the pathogenesis and immunobiology of congenital CMV (cCMV) infections since...

Biography:   Professor Edwin Kirk AM is a genetic pathologist at New South Wales Health Pathology’s Randwick Genomics Laboratory, and a clinical geneticist at Sydney Children’s Hospital. He is a conjoint appointee in the School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW. Edwin was...

Davies L, Deken A1 1Canterbury District Health NZ  Biography: Angela Deken – As a midwife for 34 years I have been the coordinator of  Canterbury District’s Newborn Hearing Screening Program since it began  in Christchurch in 2009. With a background...

Emma Webb1,2, Professor Jan Hodgson2, Dr Alanna Gillespie1,5, Professor Cheryl Jones2,3,4, Dr Zeffie Poulakis1,2,5, Associate Professor Valerie Sung1,2,5 1Murdoch Children’s Research Institute , Melbourne, Australia, 2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia , 3University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 4Sydney Children’s...

Dr Karen Liddle1,3, Ms Hannah Byrne2, A/Prof Aideen McInerney-Leo3, Dr Lucinda Freeman2 1Children's Health Queensland, South Brisbane, Australia, 2University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Biography: Hannah Byrne is a genomics researcher with...

Ms Felicity Hood1,3, Dr Melinda Barker1,2,3, Dr Zeffie Poulakis2,3,4 1Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program, Centre for Community Health, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, 2Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 3Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne,...

Mrs Genevieve Choi1,3, Associate Professor Holly Teagle1,2, Professor Suzanne Purdy1, Dr Andrew Wood1,3 1The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 2The Hearing House, Auckland, New Zealand, 3Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand – Waikato , Hamilton, New Zealand Biography: Genevieve...

Mrs Tegan Howell1,2, Associate Professor Shani Dettman2, Associate Professor Valerie Sung1,3,4 1Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Prevention Innovation, Population Health, Parkville, Australia, 2University of Melbourne, Department of Speech and Audiology, Parkville, Australia, 3University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics, Parkville, Australia, 4Royal...

Dr Jane Fitzgibbons1 1Children's Health Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Biography: Jane Fitzgibbons has been a member of Queensland's Healthy Hearing Program audiology team for over 7 years, with focus areas including infant diagnostic teleaudiology, research and, more recently, statewide quality and...

Dr Lucinda Freeman1, Prof Martin Delatycki2,3, Prof Jackie Leach Scully4, Prof Edwin Kirk5 1Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, , Australia, 2Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Parkville, Australia, 3Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Australia, 4UNSW Sydney, Disability Innovation Institute,...