Bonnielin Swenor, PhD, MPH is the founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center and an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute.

Esther Oh, MD, PhD, is an associate professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and an associate director of the Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment. Oh’s research interest is in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders including delirium. Oh actively collaborates with members of the Center on projects related to enhancing communication and improving hearing care for older adults with dementia and hearing loss. 

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Carrie L. Nieman, MD, MPH is an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-founder of Access HEARS, a nonprofit committed to the delivery of affordable, accessible hearing care. As a clinician, researcher and social entrepreneur, her commitment to social justice is inseparable from her drive to provide innovative solutions to address disparities in hearing care.

Jennifer A. Deal, PhD, is an epidemiologist and gerontologist with expertise in cognitive aging. She is an assistant professor in the Departments of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Josh Betz, MS, is biostatistician in the Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Consulting Center and is a research associate in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He obtained his MS in biostatistics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2012 and joined Johns Hopkins shortly afterwards.