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<p>Prof. Dr. med. Katrin Neumann, specialized in phoniatrics and pediatric audiology as well as in otolaryngology, is professor of Population Medicine in Communication Disorders and Director of the Department for Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology at Münster University Hospital, Germany. She chairs the Audiology Center of Münster and co-chairs the Cochlear Implant Center Münsterland. She is an audiological advisor in the Ear and Hearing Care Programme and in the Rehabilitation Programme of the WHO and represents the International Society of Audiology (ISA), the Union of European Phoniatricians (UEP), the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP), the German Society of Audiology (DGA), and the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology (DGPP) in the World Hearing Forum of the WHO. Furthermore, she chairs the UEP Hearing & Language Committee, is executive board member of the ISA and is member of the IALP Fluency Committee. She works as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fluency Disorders (Elsevier) and has published more than 280 original and review articles, monographs, guidelines, and book chapters. She coordinates or coordinated several clinical guidelines, e.g., on developmental language disorders, and research projects on treatment of developmental language and voice disorders, the implementation of newborn hearing screenings and of a universal hearing detection and intervention program for people with intellectual disabilities.</p>

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