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Thursday January 9
Registration in the Afternoon
4:30–6:30 pm	Opening Session Reception	Great Debate: Hearing Aids Should Be a Paid Benefit for Medicare Beneficiaries	Catherine Palmer, PhD; Bettie Borton, AuD; Paul Pessis, AuD; and AU Bankaitis, PhD
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Friday, January 10
7:00–8:00 am	Registration and Exhibits	Continental Breakfast
8:00–9:30 am	General Session	Cyber Security: Bridging the Gap Between Operations and Security	Noel C. Pace, Esq.
9:45–11:45 am	General Session	Enhancing Patient Care with Medical Knowledge	Alan Freint, MD
12:00–1:00 pm	Exhibits and Lunch	Lunch
1:00–2:30 pm	General Session	Broadening Patient Product Options to Include PSAPs/OTCs/Hearables [1]	Catherine Palmer, PhD, and Erik Rauterkus, BA
2:45–3:45 pm	General Session	Telemedicine: Revolutionizing the Health-Care Industry	Noel C. Pace, Esq.
4:00–5:00 pm	General Session	20/20 Vision in 2020: Practice Management Update	Paul Pessis, AuD
Saturday, January 11
6:30–7:30 am	Exhibits	Continental Breakfast
7:30–8:30 am	Symposium	Marketing Basics for Audiologists: Practical Steps You Can Take to Grow Your Practice [2]	Presented by Joe Karp Sprint CapTel
8:30–10:00 am	General Session	Audiology and the Digital World	AU Bankaitis, PhD, and Kevin Havens
10:15–11:15 am	General Session	Innovative Strategies for Hiring [3]	Bettie Borton, AuD
11:30 am–12:30 pm	Exhibits	Lunch
12:30–2:30 pm	General Session	The Audiologist's Obligation to the Vertiginous Patient [4]	Richard Roberts, PhD

 

 

The Practice Management Specialty Meeting is worth a maximum of 1.4 CEUs. Note: The Academy’s approval of this continuing education activity does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.