Neurotologist – SSM Health Medical Group
Job offering for a neurotologist with protected time for research and overseas mission work
We have a busy three physician neurotology practice and are actively seeking to add a fourth partner. Our practice became a part of the SSM Health Medical Group in 2021. We offer a competitive compensation package with no ER call responsibilities. We anticipate one partner will retire in the next several years and a new physician will be able to step into his established practice.
Two of the three partners are actively involved in skull base surgery, while all three are fellowship trained in otology. We have an excellent fellowship trained neurosurgeon at St. Anthony who recently joined our team and has enhanced our ability to care for patients with complex skull base pathology. One partner has a special interest in cochlear implant surgery and was involved in establishing Hearts for Hearing, a national leader in cochlear implant audiology and auditory-verbal therapy in 2003. The partners are associated with an independent hearing aid practice, Audio Recovery, with a staff of five audiologists which has served the needs of over 20,000 patients since 1984. Each physician has the opportunity to participate in Audio Recovery, which shares space in the same building with our clinical practice.
We collaborate with the Hough Ear Institute (“HEI”), an internationally-recognized research institution dedicated to hearing restoration. Presently, HEI and the SSM Health Medical Group are involved in preclinical research and anticipating clinical trials involving agents that promote hair cell regeneration and reduce oxidative stress after noise exposure. There is protected and compensated time for research with an outstanding research team of scientists producing cutting edge translational research. There are excellent well-equipped laboratory facilities and collaborations with Oklahoma University of Health Sciences and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Through HEI there is also the opportunity to participate in overseas mission work involving training and teaching in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other regions. The ideal candidate would demonstrate a track record of proficiency in basic science or clinical research and
aspirations for ongoing involvement in research as well as a desire for mission-related teaching and training.
Each partner was trained by Dr. Jack Hough and shares his vision of a Christ centered medical ministry. There are opportunities to participate in short-term medical missions as well as mentoring international physicians who come to Oklahoma City for additional otologic training. Over the years, we have had physicians from Jordan, Vietnam and Nepal and other nations come to Oklahoma City for fellowship training in otology.
Oklahoma City is a rapidly growing metropolitan area which enjoys conservative family values, a relatively low cost of living and a thriving downtown area (Bricktown) modeled after the San Antonio Riverwalk. There are opportunities to be involved in residency education through a relationship either with the University of Oklahoma Otolaryngology Residency Program in Oklahoma City or with Oklahoma State University Otolaryngology Residency Program in Tulsa. For those interested who may have young or teenage children at home, Oklahoma offers many strong public-school districts such as Edmond, Deer Creek and Piedmont, in addition to having great private school opportunities. Oklahoma City is a three-hour drive from the Dallas, Texas metroplex and within a day’s drive of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico.
SSM Health Medical Group Otology offers a unique opportunity to practice neurotology in a Christian setting with a well-established practice that has served Oklahoma communities for over 60 years. In addition to enjoying a thriving surgical practice, there are opportunities for clinical research, medical education, short term missions and participation in a busy hearing aid practice.
For more information or interest in applying for this position please contact:
Richard Kopke MD, FACS, CEO
Hough Ear Institute
3400 NW 56th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
1(405) 973-8910
rkopke@houghear.org
ROBERT KENT DYER, JR, MD, President
SSM Health Medical Group Otology
3400 NW 56th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
1(405)249-2001
KDYEROTO@GMAIL.COM
To apply for this job email your details to rkopke@houghear.org
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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