As part of the UEP Congress 2023, the European Phoniatrics EUHA Hearing Award was presented in Antalya (Turkey).
The European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) wishes to make a statement with a view to extraordinary research work, thus strengthening the good cooperation with the Union of the European Phoniatricians (UEP). This partnership is aimed at learning from one another and sharing knowledge on the partner’s achievements and the options feasible as part of patient-oriented care based on the idea that hearing aid acousticians and phoniatricians should each have their share in patient management. Special emphasis is placed on paediatric audiology, diagnostics, prophylaxis, and rehabilitation.
First prize was this year awarded to Dr Ozan Gökdoğan, Menteşe (Muğla/Turkey), for a paper on “Turkish Audio-Visual Speech Emotion Recognition Test (TR-AVSER): The dynamic, multimodal, face and vocal expression set”. Dr Meltem Demirdağ Çevikkan, Manisa (Turkey), is the recipient of the second prize for her research on the question “Do presbycusis patients use hearing aids?”. Dr Philipp Mathmann, Münster, received third prize for research on “Effectiveness and costs of a low-threshold hearing screening programme (HörGeist) for individuals with intellectual disabilities: Protocol for a screening study”.
The 31sth Congress of Union of the European Phoniatricians will be in Prague, Czech Republic, 4-7 June 2025, further information: https://www.uep2025.com/
