"Hearing Loss and Music: The World of Sound Beyond Language" - Public Lecture and Reception

2014 marks the 100-Year Anniversary of CID - Central Institute for the Deaf here in St. Louis. To help commemorate this momentous occasion, CID will host a renowned special guest speaker for a public lecture and reception. This lecture will take place at EPNEC on Washington University's School of Medicine Campus on Thursday, July 17, at 7:00 PM. We hope you can join us for this special event and help congratulate CID for 100 years of service to children who are deaf and hard of hearing and the professionals who help them listen, talk, read and succeed.

Charles J. Limb, MD is Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is also on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. His clinical expertise includes cochlear implantation and other forms of hearing restoration, disorders of the skull base and music perception. His research interests include cochlear implant-mediated sound perception and the neuroscience of music. He is well known for his captivating studies on the neuroscience of creativity that utilize neuroimaging techniques to study the creative process in jazz improvizationists and rap artists. To learn more about what motivates this talented physician/scientist, check out his Ted Talks.