Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Hosted by The Hearing Foundation of Canada, the Canadian Hearing and Auditory Research Translation (CHART) Group was formed to address the gaps around the diagnosis and management of audiological and otological conditions. Guesswork is often required to try to understand the physiologic or pathologic causes of many of the symptoms that appear in hearing clinics, such as sudden hearing loss, tinnitus, and otalgia (ear pain). Similarly, it's often not known with any precision why particular treatments, such as hearing restoration surgery or cochlear implantation, meet with varying levels of success. The CHART Group seeks to further investigate and understand these issues through multi-disciplinary collaboration, addressing topics that might more quickly lead to helping patients. A task force of the brightest minds in the field of hearing health will be meeting to determine the greatest needs in hearing health in Canada and, from there, will aim to create a comprehensive research agenda for unified projects to deal with those issues. The group is comprised of otolaryngologists, audiologists, neuroscientists, biomedical engineers and more, and come from the best universities and hearing-related institutes from across Canada.