Audiology Training Initiated Ethiopia, a country of 120 million people, has no audiologists, no audiology training program, and all the professional hearing expertise is concentrated in one person – a hearing aid specialist who trained and practiced in the United States. There is a lot more to testing hearing than just listening for beeps. Speech testing is an important part of diagnosing and planning any type of re-habilitation. Well, there were no word recognition testing m

Cochlear Implantation The first cochlear implants in Ethiopia were performed in December 2016 and May 2017. These were Med El implants and the support from that particular company – focusing on training and programming – has been tremendous. The first patient, Afomiya Daniel is seen here grimacing through her first dressing change by her father, Daniel Taye and the resident Bizuayehu Girma (photo 12.3.1). She can now converse with her family and of course responds to environm

For the CommENTator – December 2017 Ethiopian Corner – December 2017 1. Ethiopian Otology Training Updates Back in October 2016, Dr. Alene Meshesha approached Professor Miriam Redleaf, the Louis J. Mayer Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Illinois to develop an otology training program in Ethiopia. In a country of 120 million people there were just 28 otolaryngologists and only 2 who had hands-on experience with ear operations. Using the resources available in