09-09, 15:00–16:00 (Europe/Istanbul), Equlibirium 1
Vestibular Assessment: new tools and developments to assess patients with balance problems
The CE-Chirp stimulus was developed to enhance cochlear neural synchrony and is widely used in auditory brainstem response assessment. Chirp stimuli include broadband, narrowband, and level-specific types based on intensity-dependent delay models, and their application has recently expanded to vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) testing. Although low-frequency tone-burst stimuli are traditionally preferred in cVEMP assessment, recent evidence suggests that narrowband and level-specific CE-Chirp stimuli may elicit larger and earlier cVEMP responses with improved reproducibility, particularly at low frequencies.
This study aims to evaluate whether chirp stimuli represent a viable alternative to conventional tone-burst stimuli.
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for the Doctor of Audiology Program - Lamar University , TX. Ph.D in Health Sciences.
Dr. Gülin Gökçen Kesici graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 2005 and completed her residency in Otorhinolaryngology at Ankara University in 2012. She holds both a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Audiology, completed in 2022. In 2020, she received the title of Associate Professor. Her clinical and academic interests include otology, neurotology, pediatric otolaryngology, and vestibular and auditory diagnostics. She currently works as a faculty member and department head at Ankara Medipol University.
I received my Master’s degree in Audiology and Speech Disorders from Ege University and completed my PhD in Audiology and Speech Disorders at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University.
I have worked as an audiologist in tertiary healthcare settings, including İzmir Military Hospital and Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, where I gained extensive clinical experience in diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology.
Since 2023, I have been serving as an Assistant Professor at İzmir Tınaztepe University. My academic and clinical research interests include hearing loss, non-organic hearing loss, auditory brainstem responses (ABR), auditory evoked cortical potentials, the vestibular system and vestibular rehabilitation, and vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP). I have published articles particularly in the fields of hearing loss, electrophysiological audiology, vestibular system disorders, and VEMPs.
Within the scope of the Erasmus Staff Mobility for Teaching Programme, I carried out a teaching activity at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University, Czech Republic, between 21–25 October 2024. In addition, I participated as an invited speaker in the course entitled “Není BERA jako BERA”, organized by the same department, and delivered a presentation titled “ERA Milestones: Importance in Audiology Worldwide’’
Dr. Georgi Kukushev was born in 1983 in Sofia.
He graduated the Medical University of Sofia in December 2008.
In 2007, under the Erasmus program at the Charite Medical University in Berlin, Germany successfully passed the exams in internal medicine, surgery, and anesthesiology.
In 2009, he began working at the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic at the Military Medical Academy in Sofia.
One year of his specialization, he practiced at the military hospital in Ulm, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. H. Mayer. During this period, he acquired the right to work on the territory of Germany from the medical chamber in Stuttgart.
Since 2012, Dr. Georgi Kukushev has been a recognized specialist in Ear, Nose, and Throat.
In 2014, he obtained a teaching and scientific degree "Doctor" on the topic "Functional Endoscopic Septoplasty and Turbinoplasty - Comparative Studies with Conventional Surgical Techniques".
He is an active member of the German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases - Head and Neck Surgery.
In 2020, he was elected as a member of the working group of the Bulgarian Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases in the field of "Rhinology, Functional and Aesthetic Surgery and Skull-Based Surgery".
He is fluent in written and spoken English and German.