Meet the editors

Dr Zanetti has been an otologic and skull base surgeon at the University of Milan since 2015. He worked in otologic surgery and hearing implants at the ENT Dept of the University of Brescia (Italy) (1986-2010) and at the ENT Department of the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy) (2010-2014). He was the Head of the Cochlear Implants Program at the Audiology Department of the IRCCS Fondazione Ca 'Granda Hospital (2015-2019). He

graduated in medicine in July 1983. In 1986, he specialized in otolaryngology - head and neck surgery at the University of Milano. In 1995, he specialized in audiology at the University of Padua (Italy). He has undertaken training fellowships at the House Ear Institute, Los Angeles (USA), Instituto de Otologia Garcia-Ibanez, Barcelona (Spain), and Fondation Piortmann, Bordeaux (France). He is the author of 90 publications in international scientific journals. He is the co-author of seven chapters of books and editor of one book on "Cochlear Implants". He is a member of EAONO, Politzer, EFAS, ESBS, Charles Bell, Meniere Societies, Italian Society of Audiology and Phoniatrics, and of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology. His current research interest is focused on cochlear implants and rehabilitative surgery for deafness.

Dr Berardino has been a Professor of Audiology at the University of Milan since 2011. She was a clinical assistant at the Audiology Department of the IRCCS Fondazione Ca 'Granda Hospital since 2009. She graduated in medicine in July 1999. On November 2005, she specialized in audiology and phoniatrics. From September 2006 to– August 2009, she was a Rresearch postdoctoral Fellow (3 years) on "Deafness and cognitive and motor decline".

She is the a Author of 70 publiations on in national andinternational relevant ournals. She is the co-member of the EFAS (European federation of Audiological Societies), Italian Society of Audiology and Phoniatrics, and Italian Society of Otolaryngology. Her research interest is the study of etiological factors in audiological and vestibular diseases and in the development and clinical validation of new tools for diagnostic purposes.

Contents

**Section 1**

Hearing Loss *by Hajime Sano*

*and Diego Zanetti*

*by Brian Taylor*

**Section 2**

Hearing Implant (BAHI)

*and Antonio Della Volpe*

**Preface III**

Research and Clinical Science **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 59**

Implantable Hearing Aids **71**

**Chapter 5 73**

**Chapter 6 91**

Audiology's Third Pillar: Comprehensive Follow-Up Care and Counseling

Associated Health Issues of Patients with Acquired Unilateral

The Site of Lesion in Hearing Loss: Advances in Otoneuroradiology *by Giorgio Conte, Silvia Casale, Sara Sbaraini, Federica Di Berardino* 

Progenitor Cell Therapy for Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Infants *by Linda Baumgartner, Michael Seidman, Deborah Lamontagne, Ernest Moore, David Shook, Steven Messina and James Baumgartner*

Congenital Aural Atresia: Hearing Rehabilitation by Bone-Anchored

*by Giampietro Ricci, Arianna Di Stadio, Valeria Gambacorta* 

The Esteem®, Fully Implantable Middle Ear Device

*by Maurizio Barbara and Simonetta Monini*

for Those Who Choose to Self-Direct Their Care
