Meet Our Team
The Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health draws on the diverse expertise of its faculty members and trainees from a broad array of disciplines in order to advance a global understanding of hearing and its impact on overall patient health. Please select each team member below for a brief summary of their work.
Frank R. Lin, MD, PhD is the Director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health and a…
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Carrie L. Nieman, MD, MPH is an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and…
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Jennifer A. Deal, PhD, is an epidemiologist and gerontologist with expertise in cognitive aging…
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Josh Betz, MS, is biostatistician in the Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Consulting Center and is an…
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Alison R. Huang, PhD, MPH, is a Senior Research Associate in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…
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Nicholas Reed, AuD is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at…
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Esther Oh, MD, PhD, is the Sarah Miller Coulson Human Aging Project Scholar and an Associate…
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Bonnielin Swenor is the founder and director of…
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Christine Mitchell, ScM is a research associate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns…
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Dr. Moyses Szklo, MD, MPH, is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received his medical degree…
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Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, is the George W. Comstock Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and…
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Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD, is the Scientific Director of the National Institute on Aging and…
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Margaret Korczak, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology…
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Marilyn Albert, PhD, is director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience and a professor in…
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Mike Weikert, MFA, is the founding director of the Center for Social Design and the Master of…
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Sarah Szanton, PhD, is the Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She collaborates with…
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Adele Goman, PhD is a research associate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins…
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Susan Resnick, PhD, is a senior investigator in the Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience at the…
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Roxanne Clement-Rorick received her Master of Public Health degree in biostatistics &…
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John Shin is a Research Program Coordinator who will be supporting Nicholas Reed on the ENHANCE…
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Mindy Dmuchowski is the Cochlear Center’s Academic Program Coordinator, where she assists…
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Clarice Myers, AuD, received her clinical doctorate from Texas Tech University Health Sciences…
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Tara Thallmayer, MPH, is a graduate of Temple University with a Masters of Public Health in…
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Molly Sheehan joined the Cochlear Center in Spring 2020 to organize and expand its…
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Emmanuel E. Garcia, PhD, joined the Cochlear center for Hearing and Public Health as a…
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Jami Trumbo, MSPH, received her master’s of science in public health in health education and…
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Laura Sherry, AuD, received a clinical doctorate in Audiology from Towson University in 2017.…
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Shannon Smitherman received her Bachelor degree in Human Services from the College of Notre Dame…
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Kelly Malcolm, AuD, MPH is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and is…
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Elizabeth Kolberg, AuD, MS graduated from University of South Carolina in 2010 with her…
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Sahar Assi graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree from the American University of Beirut in…
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Laura Skow, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology working with both…
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Kening Jiang is a PhD student in Epidemiology of Aging and a trainee at the Cochlear Center. She…
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Ethan Wang is an undergraduate majoring in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. With the…
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Wuyang Zhang earned a Master of Health Science degree via the aging track of the Department of…
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Jason R. Smith earned a Master of Science degree in 2022 via the aging track of the Department…
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Paul Johnson, MD is a practicing general otolaryngologist in a hospital-based, multispecialty…
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Eric Du is a Master of Public Health student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health…
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Oscar Li is a second year medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He…
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Joseph Shen is a fourth-year medical student at Washington State University. He is concurrently…
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Grace Gahlon is a second-year ScM candidate in the Department of Epidemiology and currently…
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Perry Kuo is a physician from Taiwan and currently a PhD student in Epidemiology with a focus on…
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Jonathan J. Suen, AuD, is the first audiologist in the PhD program at the Johns Hopkins School…
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Prospective applicants are encouraged to reach out to Jennifer Deal prior to submitting any materials. Materials should be submitted via email to Shannon Smitherman, Academic Program Coordinator, JHCochlearCenter@jhu.edu.
Contact Shannon Smitherman with questions about submission procedures at JHCochlearCenter@jhu.edu.
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