American Cochlear Implant Alliance Board of Directors

New members elected

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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