IAPA News – Lyon: March 2005
Abstract
AUDIOLOGICAL MEDICINE 2005; 3(2): 141â142 IAPA News â Lyon: March 2005 Agnete Parving and Jose Barajas at the IAPA meeting in Lyon. For a Scandinavian, spring is probably the ï¬rst word that comes to mind when thinking of visiting Lyon in southern France in the middle of March. You picture in your mind the timid sunshine on the beautiful hills above the city centre as well as the ï¬owers of spring heralding the coming of the warmer and lighter season. Alas, none of this was true when the ofï¬cers of the IAPA Executive Committee met for discussions in Lyon in the middle of March 2005. The organizer of the XII International Symposium in Audiological Medicine, Lionel Collet, was the generous host of the meeting but, however mighty his local inï¬uence and his impeccable hospitality, it was beyond his powers to wave the cold snowï¬akes in the air away and turn the chilly late winter into the spring we expected and wanted. Perhaps the cold sweeping through Europe from the north explained why the invited representative from the Union of European Phoniatricians â Manfred Gross â was unable to join us. Given the frosty surroundings it was easy for