The Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), located in Bethesda, MD, is seeking a Staff Clinician (High Scarcity – HS), Otolaryngologist-Head and Neck Surgeon, to serve as the Chief of Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery Service (COHNSS) that provides clinical care, research and training. The NIDCD clinical research mission areas include normal function and disorders of the head and neck affecting hearing, balance, paranasal sinuses, smell, taste, voice, speech and language. The COHNSS: (1) builds and fosters a vibrant clinical consult service that leverages collaborations with other NIH Institutes, the Clinical Center, academic and governmental institutions; (2) builds clinic capacity for patients seen on NIDCD and other NIH clinical research protocols; (3) provides superior quality and safe patient care, supported by standard operating procedures implemented by all clinic personnel; (4) coordinates services and care provided in clinic by physicians, mid-level providers, nurses, and medical and research personnel; and (5) trains clinical fellows, residents, and students.
The COHNSS will coordinate staff scheduling for the weekday otolaryngology consult and research clinics and ensures 24/7 clinical coverage for the NIDCD clinical program. The COHNSS provides day-to-day oversight of personnel and their clinic activities supporting the NIDCD Clinical Research Program, and supervises staff physicians, staff scientists, nurse practitioners, contractors, other Licensed Independent Practitioners, and the NIDCD Patient Coordinator in support of care of patients on NIDCD and NIH clinical protocols. The COHNSS has responsibility to (1) provide and coordinate high quality patient care by otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, audiology, voice and speech pathology, nursing and other specialties as applicable; (2) ensure the safety of research participants and patients; and (3) coordinate and provide clinical research training and supervision for fellows, residents and medical students.
We welcome applications from candidates with research interests in disorders affecting NIDCD’s mission areas. Preference will be given to
candidates whose approaches complement those of our existing programs in clinical and translational research, including our newly established Smell and Taste Center.
The NIDCD offers an excellent working environment including state-of-the-art clinic, testing capabilities and inpatient units in the NIH Clinical Center, and numerous opportunities for collaboration. The successful candidate will join a dynamic group of scientists and clinicians at the forefront of research on communication disorders.
Qualifications:
• Candidates must possess an M.D. or D.O., and board-eligibility or board certification in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is highly
preferred.
• A record of scholarly clinical publications, and evidence of national recognition is highly desired.
• A record of teaching and/or leading clinical education or training program is also highly desired.
Salary is commensurate with training and relevant research experience. A full Civil Service package of benefits (including retirement, health, life and long-term care insurance, Thrift Savings Plan, etc.) is available for this position.
When applying, please submit:
• CV- Include a description of mentoring and outreach activities, especially those involving women and persons from racial/ethnic or other
groups that are underrepresented in biomedical research.
• Statement of duties
• Bibliography
• List of 5 relevant publications
• Copies of 2 papers
• List of mentees
• Names and contact information for 6 references willing to provide a Letter of Recommendation, upon request.
More detailed information about NIDCD’s Division of Intramural Research may be found at https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/research/labs
Applications will only be accepted through USAJobs (https://www.usajobs.gov/). The opportunity to apply will open on October 30, 2023, and close on November 8, 2023. The title of the position will be “Physician”, working for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),
National Institutes of Health (NIH). An announcement number will not be available until closer to the announcement date. Questions related to the announcement of this position can be addressed to NIDCDDIRSEARCH2@mail.nih.gov.
In accordance with Executive Order 14043, Federal employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 regardless of the
employee’s duty location or work arrangement (e.g., telework, remote work, etc.), subject to exceptions that may be required by law. If selected, you will be required to submit proof of vaccination by November 22, 2021 or before your entrance on duty if you are selected after the compliance date. Your HR Consultant will provide a list of documents acceptable as proof of vaccination and instructions for how to submit a request for a legally required exception, if needed, to comply with vaccination requirement.
DHHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers and encourage application from women and minorities.
To apply for this job please visit www.usajobs.gov.
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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