Content from the 2000 Course

The 2000 Military Audiology Short Course (MASC) was held at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel, Norfolk, VA, during 1 - 3 February 00 in conjunction with the Fortieth Navy Occupational Health and Preventive Medicine Workshop. The theme for this Workshop was "FORCE HEALTH PROTECTION: PREPARE & PROTECT." Thanks go out to Mr. John Page who organized this year's event and to all who presented at the meeting.

Minutes from the Business Meeting
Presentation abstracts from the meeting:
- Army
- - Otologic Blast Injuries
  - A Comparison of Adaptive & Percentage-Correct Speech-Recognition Procedures
  - User Satisfaction with the Combat Vehicle Crewman's Helmet
  - Audiology Support in Tactical Military Depolyments
  - Determining Hearing Aid Candidacy
  - AMEDD/DVA Hearing Aid Programs
  - Unilateral Hearing Loss in Children
  - The Combat Arms Earplug
  - Fitcheck Project Phase II
  - The role of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions (DPOAE) in Assessment of Pseudohypacusis
  - 24 Months into the Future: Population-based Preventive Audiology Practice
- Navy
- - The Fleet Review Board, a Force for Change
  - The Hearing in Noise Test in Determining Fitness for Duty
  - An Investigation of Speech Recognition Abilities Using SPRINT
  - Noise Levels Associated with Current Motion Pictures Digital Sound Systems
  - EOAEs in NITTS and NIPTS Cases from a Hearing-Conservation Program
  - The Application of GEE and GEE/R-PIA Prior to Noise Exposure
  - Occupational Hearing Loss in A US Navy Active Duty Enlisted Population
  - The 270 dB Program: Fitness for Continuing to Work in a Hazardous Noise Environment
  - New Advances in Protecting and Restoring the Inner Ear
  - Identification of Vestibular Schwannomas Through the Hearing Conservation Program: Three Case Presentations
- Air Force
- - A Comparison of HPD Attenuation Measurements Obtained with Subject and Experimenter Fittings
  - Deployment of an Auditory Readiness Information Center (ARIC) at International Military Air Show in England
  - The Impact of Accent, Noise, and Linguistic Predictability on the Intelligibility of Non-native Speakers of English
  - Acoustic Remote Threat Detection (ARTD)
  - New European Design: Venturi HPDs
- Joint
- - Audiology Support Following US Embassy Bombings in Africa
  - CMU/VU Distance-Learning Based Au.D. Degree Program
  - Audiologic Management of Patients with Methisillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
  - Recent Advances in Understanding and Alleviating Sensorineural Hearing Loss
  - Life and Death in the Cochlea

Special thanks to Capt Jill Juvan, USAF, for her assistance with this portion of the web site.