Assistant or Associate Professor WOT | Chief of Pediatric Audiology
Dept of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
University of Washington / Seattle Children’s Hospital
Position Description: The University of Washington Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is seeking a full-time Chief of Pediatric Audiology at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor without tenure by reason of funding, commensurate with experience. This position will have a 12-month service period (July 1 – June 30). University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research, and service. This position will be expected to engage in clinical and scholarly activities, with a research component.
Primarily located at Seattle Children’s Hospital, this position will have clinical accountability for provision of audiological clinical and directorship services. This position supports the UW Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery Department’s and Seattle Children’s Hospital’s shared mission to train and further develop the programs for children who are deaf/hard of hearing, and to advance hearing related research. This position will have accountability for the delivery and implementation of services in the Division of Audiology at Seattle Children’s. Professional services shall include, but not be limited to:
- Directorship for clinical audiology services, including overseeing and training audiologists, aural habilitation specialists, audiology students. Participate in audiology education of resident physicians, fellows, medical students,
- Oversight of clinical research in hearing sciences providing input in performance evaluations for members of the Division of Audiology;
- Partnering with Audiology clinical management team and Childhood Communication Center to oversee and develop clinical services and outreach programs,
- Developing and reviewing administrative and clinical policies and procedures pertaining to the Division of Audiology;
- Facilitating meetings of audiologists and other clinical professionals;
- Provide direct patient care and compliant documentation and billing in SCH’s clinical medical record
Join a cohesive, innovative, and enthusiastic department with strong existing faculty, excellent technical resources, and tremendous research opportunities.
Qualifications: The applicant must have completed an AuD or PhD (or foreign equivalent) in a related field and a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A). The successful candidate must have excellent patient care skills and broad clinical experience, and a documented track record in scholarship. Candidates must also be eligible for Washington State Audiology licensure. Positive factors for consideration include, but are not limited to, the ability to work well in a multidisciplinary setting overseeing a team of audiologists and enthusiasm for teaching.
In order to be eligible for University sponsorship for an H-1B visa, graduates of foreign (non-U.S.) medical schools must show successful completion of all three steps of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), or equivalent as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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More information on the department can be found at https://otolaryngology.uw.edu/
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Kirupa Suthakar, PhD - Dr Kirupa Suthakar is a postdoctoral fellow at NIH/NIDCD, having formerly trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and doctoral student at Garvan Institute of Medical Research/UNSW Australia. Kirupa's interest in the mind and particular fascination by how we are able to perceive the world around us led her to pursue a research career in auditory neuroscience. To date, Kirupa's research has broadly focused on neurons within the auditory efferent circuit, which allow the brain to modulate incoming sound signals at the ear. Kirupa is active member of the spARO community, serving as the Chair Elect for 2021.
Charles C. Della Santina, PhD MD is a Professor of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directs the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Implant Center and the Johns Hopkins Vestibular NeuroEngineering Laboratory.
Andrew Griffith received his MD and PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1992. He completed his general surgery internship and a residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan in 1998. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Human Genetics as part of his training at the University of Michigan. In 1998, he joined the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) in the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). He served as a senior investigator, the chief of the Molecular Biology and Genetics Section, the chief of the Otolaryngology Branch, and the director of the DIR, as well as the deputy director for Intramural Clinical Research across the NIH Intramural Research Program. His research program identifies and characterizes molecular and cellular mechanisms of normal and disordered hearing and balance in humans and mouse models. Two primary interests of his program have been hearing loss associated with enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct, and the function of TMC genes and proteins. The latter work lead to the discovery that the deafness gene product TMC1 is a component of the hair cell sensory transduction channel. Since July of 2020, he has served as the Senior Associate Dean of Research and a Professor of Otolaryngology and Physiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Gwenaëlle S. G. Géléoc obtained a PhD in Sensory Neurobiology from the University of Sciences in Montpellier (France) in 1996. She performed part of her PhD training at the University of Sussex, UK where she characterized sensory transduction in vestibular hair cells and a performed a comparative study between vestibular and cochlear hair cells. Gwenaelle continued her training as an electrophysiologist at University College London studying outer hair cell motility and at Harvard Medical School studying modulation of mechanotransduction in vestibular hair cells. As an independent investigator at the University of Virginia, she expanded this work and characterized the developmental acquisition of sensory transduction in mouse vestibular hair cells, the developmental acquisition of voltage-sensitive conductances in vestibular hair cells and the tonotopic gradient in the acquisition of sensory transduction in the mouse cochlea. This work along with quantitative spatio-temporal studies performed on several hair cell mechanotransduction candidates lead her to TMC1 and 2 and long-term collaborations with Andrew Griffith and Jeff Holt. Dr. Géléoc is currently Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, at Boston Children’s Hospital where she continues to study molecular players involved in the development and function of hair cells of the inner ear and develops new therapies for the treatment of deafness and balance, with a particular focus on Usher syndrome.
Jeff Holt earned a doctorate from the Department of Physiology at the University of Rochester in 1995 for his studies of inward rectifier potassium channels in saccular hair cells. He went on to a post-doctoral position in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where he characterized sensory transduction and adaptation in hair cells and developed a viral vector system to transfect cultured hair cells. Dr. Holt’s first faculty position was in the Neuroscience Department at the University of Virginia. In 2011 the lab moved to Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. Dr. Holt is currently a Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Neurology in the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center. Dr. Holt and his team have been studying sensory transduction in auditory and vestibular hair cells over the past 20 years, with particular focus on TMC1 and TMC2 over the past 12 years. This work lead to the discovery that TMC1 forms the hair cell transduction channel. His work also focuses on development gene therapy strategies for genetic hearing loss.
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