Washington, D.C.: American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) membership elected new board members and a new Chair during CI2025 Boston earlier this month. Three new board members were elected:
Douglas Sladen PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Canada
Ivette Cejas PhD
Professor
Director, Family Support Services
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami
Children’s Hearing Program
Jacob B. Hunter MD
Associate Professor
Otology/Neurotology Division, Chief
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
Current Board Member Daniel M. Zeitler MD was elected to service as the incoming Chair of the Board of Directors. ACI Alliance is grateful to outgoing board members Amy Birath AuD and Kevin Brown MD for their service, and to outgoing Chair of the Board of Directors Andrea Warner-Czyz PhD for both her time on the Board and her recent leadership as Chair.
The ACI Alliance Board of Directors reflects the diversity and mission of the organization by including surgeons, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, educators of children with hearing loss, professionals on cochlear implant teams or from school settings, parents and adult CI recipients.
ACI Alliance is a not-for-profit membership organization created with the purpose of eliminating barriers to cochlear implantation by sponsoring research, driving heightened awareness and advocating for improved access to cochlear implants for patients of all ages across the US.
For more on the leadership of ACI Alliance visit: www.acialliance.org/page/BoardofDirectors
