Prof. Hung THAI-VAN, MD, heads the Audiology and Otoneurological Evaluation department at the Lyon University Hospital in France. He holds a PhD in cognitive science, was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Community, and worked as a post-doctoral fellow from 2004 to 2006 at NIH-NIDCD (Bethesda, MD, USA). Prof. THAI-VAN is the director of the physiology teaching program at the Lyon Charles Mérieux Faculty of Medicine. He coordinates a university training program in audiology and otoneurology common to the universities of Paris and Lyon. He is the author of more than 100 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, and he is the co-director of a research team at the Paris Hearing Institute, Institut Pasteur. He conducts translational research focused on (i) the characterization of vestibular disorders associated with deafness, and the impact of age on normal and pathological postural control, (ii) the modeling of developmental language abnormalities, and their predictability as a function of cognitive factors, and (iii) the development of new methods for the diagnosis and evaluation of recently described audio-vestibular disorders.
Dr. Marie-Blanche VALNET-RABIER has a PharmD and Ph.D. in the field of
immunology and pharmacology. Dr. VALNET-RABIER is currently a hospital
practitioner and chief of the Regional Pharmacovigilance Centre of
Franche-Comte mainly implicated in pharmacovigilance research. Dr.
VALNET-RABIER's expertise deals with the COVID-19 vaccine, jak inhibitors, HIV
drugs, and medication errors. Dr. Marie-Blanche VALNET-RABIER is a member of the International
Medication Safety Network as a representative of the French Pharmacovigilance
Network.
