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Vol. 39, Number 2 Summer 2014
ASSOCIATION UPDATES
3 From the ATA Executive Director: Doing More than “Just Living With It”
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4 Letters to the Editor 6 ATA Walk to Silence Tinnitus & Tour de Tinnitus
7 Members Corner: Results from ATA’s Membership Survey
PATIENT STORIES
10 Education and Support: My Tools for Tinnitus Management Chris Bedford
12 There Is Always Hope: My Experience with Tinnitus and Osteopathy Theresa Cameron
14 The Bottom Line: Find Relief Saul Tave
SCIENCE & RESEARCH
16 Head Noise: Tinnitus and the Human Brain Fatima Husain, Ph.D.
22 Tinnitus Questions and Answers Janice R. Dungan, Au.D., CCC-A
24 New ATA Funded Research in 2014
26 Research Review: A Summary of Recently Published Tinnitus Studies
RECOGNITION 30 ATA Professional Members 31 ATA Corporate Members
Cara James, Executive Director Ben Forstag, Tinnitus Today Editor
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ATA Board of Directors Thomas J. Lobl, Ph.D., Chair, Valencia, CA Melanie F. West, Vice Chair, Cave Creek, AZ Marsha Johnson, Au.D., Treasurer, Portland, OR Scott C. Mitchell, J.D., Secretary, Houston, TX William C. Denby, III, M.B.A., San Diego, CA Janice R. Dungan, Au.D., CCC-A, Knoxville, TN Susan Greco Marchese, Fairfax, VA Cathy Henderson Jones, M.S., Warrenville, IL Michael F. Langhout, M.B.A., Redmond, WA Norma Mraz, Au.D., Alpharetta, GA Gary P. Reul, Ed.D., Issaquah, WA David M. Sykes, M.B.A., Lincoln, MA Bradley S. Vite, Elkhart, IN
Honorary Director William Shatner, Los Angeles, CA
ATA Scientific Advisory Committee Shaowen Bao, Ph.D., Berkeley, CA Kejian Chen, Ph.D., San Diego, CA Dirk De Ridder, M.D., Ph.D., Otago, New Zealand Marc A. Fagelson., Ph.D., Johnson City, TN Fatima T. Husain, Ph.D., Urbana-Champaign, IL Marlies Knipper-Breer, Ph.D., Ph.D., Tübingen, Germany Jennifer Melcher, Ph.D., Boston, MA Mark S. Mennemeier, Ph.D., Little Rock, AR Jay F. Piccirillo, M.D., FACS, St. Louis, MO Larry E. Roberts, Ph.D., Hamilton, ON, Canada Maria E. Rubio, M.D., Ph.D., Pittsburgh, PA Jeremy G. Turner Ph.D., Jacksonville, FL Athanasios Tzounopoulos, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, PA Pim Van Dijk, Ph.D., Groningen, Netherlands Fan-Gang Zeng, Ph.D., Irvine, CA Jinsheng Zhang, Ph.D., Detroit, MI
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