Childhood deafness research program attracts international interest

15/01/2025

The work of Associate Professor Valerie Sung’s team on the Australian National Child Hearing Health Outcomes Registry (ANCHOR) and congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) screening has attracted worldwide interest with invitations to give international keynote speeches and grand rounds, as well as presentations at national and international conferences.

Associate Professor Sung was invited to deliver two international speeches to discuss how ANCHOR is connecting and utilising data for equitable care and outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children in Australia – for the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children Rounds at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, and for the Norwegian Hearing Register for Children Seminar at St. Olva’s University Hospital in Trondheim, Norway. She was also invited to deliver a keynote speech about the team’s work on implementing screening for cCMV to reduce its impacts on children’s hearing and neurodevelopment, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Norway.

Associate Professor Sung’s team further presented their work through more than 30 presentations at the Family-Centred Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing conference in Austria, Hearing Across the Lifespan in Italy, Otitis Media OZ in Newcastle, and the Australian and New Zealand Conference for Educators of the Deaf in Sydney.

Watch a video of Dr Valerie Sung speaking to the VicCHILD project, spotlighting long-term patient Hasas. In this video, learn more about her work to help deaf and hard of hearing children reach their full potential.