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10/13/2017 | 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | Implementation Strategies for Hearing Screening(NIHS) in Nigeria: Exploring the strength in our locals | East Ballroom at Shalala Student Services Building

Implementation Strategies for Hearing Screening(NIHS) in Nigeria: Exploring the strength in our locals

Cues from NIHS across the globe would suggest that a workable model in Nigeria would start off as a pilot NIHS project in selected Primary Health Care Center in a Local Government Maternity. The availability of various cadres of Health Assistants, Community Health Extension Workers and Nurses who can be trained in basic Hearing Screening techniques and the already established substantial patronage from majority of the populace will make the choice of Local Health Centers appropriate. The strategies will include training of Health assistants and Nursing Staff in electrophysiologic screening and documentation in a standardized form. The training which will be coordinated by a trained audiologist will also include creation of Hearing Screening Register. This hearing screening program will identify both congenital hearing loss and the High risk for acquired Hearing loss. The program will commence in three local Health centres and repeated expanded as it goes. The ultimate objectives is to create substantial data for formulation of a National policy on Hearing screening.The strength and weakness of the strategies will be discussed

Identify the strength in the local gorvernment health center as access to commence infant and Newborn hearing screening
Train the manpower in the Local Health Centers for conducting hearing screening and coordination and referral
To establish a data for formulation of National hearing policy in Nigeria

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Akeem Lasisi (), University of Ibadan/University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, akeemlasisi@gmail.com;
I am a Chief Medical Director of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo. After my medical graduation, I completed otorhinolaryngology fellowship in 1999. I had extensive research experience in otology particularly epidemiology and molecular genetics of hearing impairment and suppurative otitis media. I did my doctorate thesis on the biomarkers of suppurative otitis media among children which I completed in 2013. In addition, my research has documented the first deafness mutation among Nigerian and the role of immunoglobulins and cytokine in the outcome of suppurative otitis media. I have trained many fellows and supervised the research leading to their final thesis. I am principal investigators of researches on genetics of hereditary deafness and otitis media among Nigerians. I am a reviewer to many high impact journals, assessors to granting bodies and the current chairman of the department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Ibadan. I have been recipient of the University of Ibadan MacArthur research Multidisciplinary research grant and the Nigerian Tertiary Educational Fund. I have delivered keynote and plenary lectures and chaired sessions in about 20 regional/international conferences. I have more than 100publications in peer reviewed journals