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Comprehensive Hearing Center (CHC)

Programs and services

  • Comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluation of hearing disorders with a special focus on hearing loss in neonates (neonatal hearing screening)
  • Detailed medical and/or technical counseling and explanation of therapeutic treatments
  • Conventional and surgical treatments of all kinds of hearing loss using modern hearing ­devices (implants, hearing aids)
  • Microsurgery of the ear and acoustic neuroma surgery
  • Research focus:
    • Objective and subjective diagnostics of auditory perception and speech understanding
    • Optimizing surgical procedures for implantable hearing devices
    • Inner ear biology and investigation of new ­therapies of hearing loss
    • Central auditory processing on a neuronal level
    • Psychoacoustics

Cooperating institutions

  • Phoniatrics  / Pediatric Audiology  /  Electrophysiology / Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
  • Numerous departments of the University Hospital of Würzburg: Pediatrics / Developmental Pediatrics / Obstetrics / (Child and Adolescent) Psychiatry / Neurology / Neurosurgery / Radiology
  • Institute of pre-linguistic Development and ­Developmental Disorders
  • Cochlear Implant Center Süd (CICS) Würzburg Foundation  “Sprache-Kommunikation“
  • Dr. Karl-Kroiß-Center for the hearing impaired

Contact

Opening hours

Monday to Friday
08:00 to 11:30

Director

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Hagen

Telephone

+49 931 201-21777

 


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