Event. Vestibular Diagnostics: Fundamentals course

Dates: Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th, Thursday 12th June 2025

This workshop is a 3-day, in-person course. Attendees will learn how to use a variety of diagnostic tools to evaluate and physiologically assess the peripheral vestibular sensory system. The course content covers diagnostic vestibular assessments, and techniques to evaluate eye movement and the oculomotor pathways.

The content will be delivered through lecture-based learning, combined with hands on practical application using the latest diagnostic assessments. Participants will also learn through case based discussions how to bring together the clinical assessments when reporting on findings of identified physiological impairment.

A vestibular diagnostics advanced course is scheduled for November 2025. Please look at the learning objectives for this course also to make sure the course you choose is suitable for your knowledge level.

Target participants: Otolaryngologists, audiologists, neurologists, and any other healthcare professional who is working in the field and wants to build on their knowledge or enhance a vestibular assessment and balance diagnostics clinic.

Prerequisite knowledge: Clinicians with a knowledge of vestibular diagnostics and the assessment of patients with vestibular dysfunction, and associate balance impairments. Please note there is a vestibular diagnostics advanced course which will be scheduled for November 2025, which may be more suitable for clinicians who have more experience in clinical assessment of vestibular assessment.

Presenters: Leigh Martin, Michael East, Darren Whelan

Intended Learning Outcomes

To deliver the foundation of knowledge needed to conduct the assessment of the dizzy patient. Through theory and hands on workshops the performance of vestibular assessments will be applied to clinical practice On completion participants will understand common vestibular disorders, their descriptions, and understand the technologies to locate, identify, and recognise vestibular dysfunction.

Cost Price: 1000 EUR + 250 EUR VAT (VAT refundable)
Includes: 3-day workshop
Hotel room 3 nights
Breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks during workshop
1 Dinner
Transportation to/from the hotel and office
- Flights are at your own expense

Speakers:

Leigh Martin

Leigh is a British Audiologist and adjunct lecturer at the University of Cork, Ireland. Clinically, he has worked in the National Health Service specializing in paediatric audiology as well as vestibular diagnostics and rehabilitation. Leigh has also sat on the board of directors for the British Academy of Audiology. Since 2013, Leigh has supported the growth and development of the Interacoustics Academy and holds the position of Director of the Academy. Leigh has presented at numerous scientific conferences and meetings across a diverse range of audiological topics as well as having published papers in both video head impulse testing (vHIT) and wideband tympanometry.

Michelle Petrak

Dr. Michelle Petrak is the Director of Clinical Audiology for Interacoustics and is a licensed, practicing audiologist in the Chicago area. Dr. Petrak received her Doctorates in Electrophysiology and Biomolecular Electronics from Wayne State University in 1994 and her Masters in Audiology in 1989. Her special areas of expertise include vestibular and balance testing (VNG), electrophysiological techniques (ABR/ASSR/VEMP/ECoG) and pediatric audiology. Dr. Petrak is involved with product development, clinical evaluation testing, publishing, teaching and training on VNG and EP topics. In addition to being employed with Interacoustics, she is also a licensed and practicing audiologist at Northwest Speech and Hearing in Arlington Heights, IL. She continues to lecture extensively, nationally and internationally, and to publish articles in hearing industry journals.

Michael East

Michael is an Audiologist and Clinical Scientist from the UK with many years of experience working in senior clinical audiology positions within the National Health Service, specialising in both paediatrics and vestibular assessment/rehabilitation. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Southampton and Aston University respectively and completed the UK’s National School of Healthcare Science “Scientist Training Programme”; leading to his registration as a Clinical Scientist. Since joining the Academy in 2024, Michael has presented at several international scientific conferences, guest lectured at academic institutions and led courses on a wide range of topics in the field of audiology.