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.

Core Faculty
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Core Faculty Frank R. Lin

Frank R. Lin, MD, PhD is the Director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health and a…

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Core Faculty Carrie Nieman

Carrie L. Nieman, MD, MPH is an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and…

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Core Faculty Jennifer A. Deal

Jennifer A. Deal, PhD, is an epidemiologist and gerontologist with expertise in cognitive aging…

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Core Faculty Joshua Betz

Josh Betz, MS, is biostatistician in the Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Consulting Center and is an…

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Alison Huang, PhD, MPH
Core Faculty Alison Huang

Alison R. Huang, PhD, MPH, is a Senior Research Associate in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…

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Core Faculty Nicholas Reed

 



Nicholas Reed, AuD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology…

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Pablo Martinez Amezcua, MD, PhD, MHS
Core Faculty Pablo Martinez Amezcua, MD, PhD, MHS

Pablo Martinez Amezcua, MD, PhD, MHS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology…

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Esther Oh, MD, PhD
Core Faculty Esther Oh

Esther Oh, MD, PhD, is the Sarah Miller Coulson Human Aging Project Scholar and an Associate…

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Associate Faculty
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Associate Faculty Bonnielin Swenor, PHD, MPH

Bonnielin Swenor is the founder and director of…

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Christine Mitchell
Associate Faculty Christine Mitchell

Christine Mitchell, ScM is a research associate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns…

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Dr. Moyses Szklo
Associate Faculty Moyses Szklo

Dr. Moyses Szklo, MD, MPH, is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received his medical degree…

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Associate Faculty Josef Coresh

Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, is the George W. Comstock Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and…

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Associate Faculty Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD

Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD, is the Scientific Director of the National Institute on Aging and…

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Margaret Korczak, PhD
Associate Faculty Margaret Korczak

Margaret Korczak, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology…

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Marilyn Albert, PhD
Associate Faculty Marilyn Albert

Marilyn Albert, PhD, is director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience and a professor in…

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Associate Faculty Mike Weikert

Mike Weikert, MFA, is the founding director of the Center for Social Design and the Master of…

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Associate Faculty Sarah Szanton

Sarah Szanton, PhD, is the Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She collaborates with…

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Associate Faculty Adele Goman

Adele Goman, PhD is a research associate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins…

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Associate Faculty Susan Resnick

Susan Resnick, PhD, is a senior investigator in the Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience at the…

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Staff
Roxanne Clement-Rorick, MPH
Staff Roxanne Clement-Rorick, MPH

Roxanne Clement-Rorick received her Master of Public Health degree in biostatistics &…

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Wuyang Zhang, MHS
Staff Wuyang Zhang

Wuyang Zhang earned his Master of Health Science degree in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins…

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John Shin, MPH
Staff John Shin, MPH

John Shin is a Research Program Coordinator who will be supporting Nicholas Reed on the ENHANCE…

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Staff Mindy Dmuchowski

Mindy Dmuchowski is the Cochlear Center’s Academic Program Coordinator, where she assists…

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Clarice Myers
Staff Clarice Myers, AuD

Clarice Myers, AuD, received her clinical doctorate from Texas Tech University Health Sciences…

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Molly Sheehan
Staff Molly Sheehan

Molly Sheehan is the first to manage the Cochlear Center's communications efforts, and since…

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Emmanuel Garcia Morales
Staff Emmanuel Garcia Morales, PhD

Emmanuel E. Garcia, PhD, joined the Cochlear center for Hearing and Public Health as a…

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Staff Jami Trumbo, MSPH, Center Administrator

Jami Trumbo, MSPH, received her master’s of science in public health in health education and…

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Staff Laura Sherry, AuD

Laura Sherry, AuD, received a clinical doctorate in Audiology from Towson University in 2017.…

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Staff Shannon Smitherman

Shannon Smitherman received her Bachelor degree in Human Services from the College of Notre Dame…

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POST-doctoral trainees
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Post-Doctoral Kelly Malcolm, AuD, MPH

Kelly Malcolm, AuD, MPH is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and is…

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Elizabeth Kolberg, AuD, MS
Post-Doctoral Elizabeth Kolberg, AuD, MS

Elizabeth Kolberg, AuD, MS graduated from University of South Carolina in 2010 with her…

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Sahar Assi
Post-Doctoral Sahar Assi

Sahar Assi graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree from the American University of Beirut in…

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Laura Skow, PhD
Post-Doctoral Laura Skow, PhD

Laura Skow, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology working with both…

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PRE-doctoral trainees
Kening Jiang
Pre-Doctoral Kening Jiang, MHS

Kening Jiang is a PhD student in Epidemiology of Aging and a trainee at the Cochlear Center. She…

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Ethan Wang
Pre-Doctoral Ethan Wang

Ethan B. Wang is an undergraduate majoring in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.  With…

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Jason R. Smith
Pre-Doctoral Jason R. Smith

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
Pre-Doctoral Paul Johnson, MD

Paul Johnson, MD is a practicing general otolaryngologist in a hospital-based, multispecialty…

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Eric Due
Pre-Doctoral Eric Du

Eric Du is a Master of Public Health student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health…

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Maggie Oliver
Pre-Doctoral Maggie Oliver

Maggie Oliver is a Master of Public Health student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of…

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Oscar Li
Pre-Doctoral Oscar Li

Oscar Li is a second year medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He…

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Joseph Shen
Pre-Doctoral Joseph Shen

Joseph Shen is a fourth-year medical student at Washington State University. He is concurrently…

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Grace Gahlon
Pre-Doctoral Grace Gahlon

Grace Gahlon is a second-year ScM candidate in the Department of Epidemiology and currently…

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Jonathan J Suen, AuD
Pre-Doctoral Jonathan J. Suen

Jonathan J. Suen, AuD, is the first audiologist in the PhD program at the Johns Hopkins School…

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Perry Pei-Lun Kuo
Pre-Doctoral Perry Pei-Lun Kuo

Perry Kuo is a physician from Taiwan and currently a PhD student in Epidemiology with a focus on…

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JOIN OUR TEAM

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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