Event. Vestibular Rehabilitation Workshop: Virtual Reality and Virtualis Technology

We’re pleased to invite you to Interacoustics’ Vestibular Rehabilitation Workshop: Virtual Reality and Virtualis Technology, at our headquarters in Middelfart, from March 5-7, 2025.

Purpose:
This workshop will link the diagnostic assessment to the latest technologies that support the objective functional assessment of the patient. The workshop will cover the identification of VOR deficits, the evaluation of functional changes in the VOR response, and objective measures of reported unsteadiness and / or impairments in postural control.

The combination of diagnostics and objective functional assessments will give practitioners valuable insights to guide retraining strategies and exercises and make individualised adaptions to facilitate symptom reduction.

The content will be delivered through lecture based learning, combined with hands on practical appliction using the latest technologies. Clinicians will also learn through case based discusions how to create and adapted individualised vestibular rehabilitation programmes.

Target participants:
Otolaryngologists, audiologists, vestibular physiotherapists and any other healthcare professionals seeking to establish or enhance a vestibular rehabilitation program. Existing Virtualis clients invited to an end-user training framework course.

Prerequisite knowledge:
Clinicians with experience in vestibular diagnostics and treating patients with vestibular dysfunction, or healthcare professionals working in a vestibular rehabilitation service wanting to enhance their clinical programme.

Price: 1000 EUR + 250 EUR VAT
Includes:

• 3-day workshop
• Hotel room March 4-7
• Breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks during workshop
• 1 Dinner
• Transportation to/from the hotel and office

- Flights are at your own expense

Speakers:

Darren Whelan

Darren holds an undergraduate degree in audiology and postgraduate master’s degrees in health science, neurophysiology, and clinical research. His resumé includes several clinical positions in the National Health Service (NHS). Prior to his current occupation as an International Clinical Trainer in the Interacoustics Academy, Darren held a clinical audiology and research scientist role in the UK, where he investigated patients with auditory and vestibular pathology, and managed a portfolio of NIHR adopted research studies. He has been a guest speaker at national and international conventions, enjoys teaching and providing clinical insights on the management of patients with dizziness and is a contributing author on published audiological and vestibular articles. Darren has also been an adjunct professor at Salus University in the USA, lecturing on the Doctor of Audiology degree.

Cassie Andersen

Cassie holds her Doctorate in Physical Therapy and has served as a licensed physical therapist for 11 years. She began her career in the inpatient rehab setting working primarily with patients post stroke then transitioned to the outpatient setting working primarily with the vestibular/balance population in a multidisciplinary ENT and neurology clinics. Cassie has participated in research and quality improvement projects aimed at incorporating technology into clinical practice and has presented at both the national and international level.

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.