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Marion Downs Lecture
2009 Marion Downs Lecture Features Distinguished Neurotologist, Richard Miyamoto, MD
 On April 3, 2009, Richard T. Miyamoto, MD, FACS, FAAP presented the Marion Downs Lecture in Pediatric Audiology at AudiologyNOW!® 2009. Dr. Miyamoto’s presentation, Cochlear Implants in Infants and Children, included a discussion of current developments and advances in pediatric cochlear implantation.
Dr. Miyamoto is the Arilla Spence DeVault Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He received a BS degree from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, an MD degree from the University of Michigan, and M.S. in Otology from the University of Southern California. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. He completed his residency at Indiana University and fellowship in Otology and Neurotology at the House Ear Institute.
Miyamoto is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and the Collegium Otorhinolaryngologicum Amicitae Sacrum. He has served on the Advisory Council of the National Institute for Deafness and Communication Disorders and has been continuously funded by the NIDCD for the past 22 years as the principal investigator on NIDCD R01 grants studying speech perception, speech production, and language in children with cochlear implants. He is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the National Organization for Hearing Research and the Royal Society of Medicine (England).
Dr. Miyamoto has served on the Indiana Speech and Hearing Licensing Board and is a member of the Indiana Hearing Aid Licensing Board. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Auditory Society and the Council of the American Otological Society. He is a Director of the American Board of Otolaryngology and serves on the Residency Review Committee. He has served as an Associate Editor for Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and also for JARO as well as serving on eight additional editorial boards.
Dr. Miyamoto has also served as the President of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, President of the American Neurotology Society, President of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, President of the Association of Academic Departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, President of the Centurions of the Deafness Research Foundation, President of the William F. House Society, President of the Indiana chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, President of the Board of the St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf-Indianapolis, President of the Alumni Fellowship Group of the House Ear Institute, Vice-President of the Triological Society, and trustee of the Bloedel Hearing Research Center.
His lecture at AudiologyNOW! addressed how the advent of universal newborn hearing screening programs requires a reassessment of the lower age limits for cochlear implantation. Dr. Miyamoto discussed how improvements in implant technology and refinements in surgical technique have made the inclusion of infants in the implant population feasible. His presentation also included a discussion on how these advances have mandated the development of new assessment tools.
The Marion Downs Lecture in Pediatric Audiology is funded annually by the AAAF with a grant from The Oticon Foundation.
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