{"result":[{"lastName":"Goode","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (Ear, Nose and Throat)"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4092&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Goode","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Richard_Goode","researchInterest":"Middle ear mechanics, correction of hearing loss, development and evaluation of middle ear prosthesis; creative strategies for correcting various types of hearing loss using surgery in temporal bone models and humans.  Research in new methods to surgically correct tongue collapse in sleep apnea.  Research to improve facial muscle movement following facial nerve injury using surgical techniques."},{"lastName":"Oghalai","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurotology"},{"focus":"Cochlear Implantation"},{"focus":"Skull Base Surgery"},{"focus":"Otology"},{"focus":"Schwannomas, Vestibular"},{"focus":"Cholesteatoma"},{"focus":"Otosclerosis"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18187&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John S. Oghalai","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Oghalai","researchInterest":"Hearing loss can begin at any age and tends to progress.  Ultimately, this may lead to deafness.  Our research team seeks to understand the mechanisms of progressive hearing loss, to develop better techniques of diagnosing the cause of hearing loss in individual patients, and to optimize outcomes after cochlear implantation.  We perform translational research using animal models of hearing loss and clinical research in both adult and pediatric patients to accomplish our goals."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cochlear Implants"},{"focus":"Congenital Hearing Loss"},{"focus":"Microtia Reconstruction"},{"focus":"Pediatric Otology"},{"focus":"Ototoxicity"},{"focus":"Congenital Ear Anomalies"},{"focus":"Connexin 26 Genetic Hearing Loss"},{"focus":"Otoacoustic Emissions"},{"focus":"Ear Canal Atresia"},{"focus":"Hearing Loss"},{"focus":"Cochlear Implantation"},{"focus":"Pediatric Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (Ear, Nose and Throat)"},{"focus":"Cholesteatoma"},{"focus":"Otoplasty"},{"focus":"Coblation Tonsillectomy"},{"focus":"Intracapsular Tonsillectomy"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3856&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kay Chang","firstName":"Kay","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kay_Chang","researchInterest":"http://med.stanford.edu/ohns/research/labs_chang.html"},{"lastName":"Blevins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (Ear, Nose and Throat)"},{"focus":"Cochlear Implantation"},{"focus":"Hearing Loss"},{"focus":"Acoustic Neuroma"},{"focus":"Facial Nerve"},{"focus":"Cholesteatoma"},{"focus":"Skull Base Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Otitis Media"},{"focus":"Otosclerosis"},{"focus":"neurotology"},{"focus":"Tympanoplasty"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6102&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nikolas Blevins","firstName":"Nikolas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nikolas_Blevins","researchInterest":"Inner ear microendoscopy -- Developing techniques for minimally-invasive imaging of inner ear microanatomy and neural pysiology.  Applications include improved cochlear implant development, inner ear regenerative techniques, inner ear surgery, and auditory physiology.  \r\n\r\nMicrosurgical robotics -- Developing scalable microsurgical instrumentation and robotic techniques for use in head and neck surgery.  \r\n\r\nSurgical Simulation -- Immersive environment for temporal bone surgical simulation."},{"lastName":"Kim","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Mechanical Engineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Mechanical Engineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=36096&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nam Keun Kim","firstName":"Nam Keun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nam Keun_Kim","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Abrams","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9447&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel A. Abrams","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Abrams","researchInterest":"Language impairments affect up to 19% of school age children and these deficits are predictive of long-term problems affecting learning, academic achievement, and behavior.  My primary research goal is to understand the neurobiological foundations of language impairments.  Specifically, I am interested in how the perception and neural coding of speech impact language and other behavioral deficits in children, with a focus on children with reading disabilities and autism spectrum disorders."},{"lastName":"Cheng","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Hearing loss"},{"focus":"Cholesteotoma"},{"focus":"Pediatric sinus disease"},{"focus":"Pediatric head and neck tumors"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8272&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alan G. Cheng","firstName":"Alan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alan_Cheng","researchInterest":"Active Wnt signaling maintains somatic stem cells in many organ systems. Using Wnt target genes as markers, we have characterized distinct cell populations with stem cell behavior in the inner ear, an organ thought to be terminally differentiated.  Ongoing work focuses on delineating the developing significance of these putative stem/progenitor cells and their behavior after damage."},{"lastName":"Capasso","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Sleep Surgery"},{"focus":"Sleep Medicine"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Biodesign"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16922&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robson Capasso","firstName":"Robson","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robson_Capasso","researchInterest":"Pre-operative evaluation and selection of potential candidates for OSA Surgery.\r\nSleep MRI.\r\nInnovative approaches for management of OSA."},{"lastName":"Schrijver","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pediatrics - Medical Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3905&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Iris Schrijver","firstName":"Iris","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Iris_Schrijver","researchInterest":"Iris Schrijver is a diplomate of the ABMG, with specialty certification in Clinical Molecular Genetics. In addition, she is a diplomate of the ABP in Clinical Pathology. She is one of the directors of the diagnostic Molecular Pathology laboratory and Stanford Point-of-Care testing. Research interests include the characterization of the molecular basis of inherited disorders, genotype-phenotype correlations, and development of novel molecular diagnostic tools."},{"lastName":"Jackler","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Acoustic Neuroma, Cerebellopontine Angle"},{"focus":"Meningioma"},{"focus":"Neurofibromatosis 2"},{"focus":"Glomus Jugulare Tumor"},{"focus":"Ear Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Otosclerosis"},{"focus":"Cholesteatoma"},{"focus":"Facial Paralysis"},{"focus":"Facial Nerve Tumor"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (Ear, Nose and Throat)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3947&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert K. Jackler, MD","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Jackler","researchInterest":"Development of innovative surgical methods, via the cranial base, to expose inaccessible intracranial disease. Surgical simulation and robotics. Evidence based outcomes analysis in acoustic neuroma and other tumors of the cerebellopontine angle. History of tobacco advertising with false reassurance of healthfulness (see tobacco.stanford.edu).  Medical history - especially the history of otology, neurosurgery, deafness, and quackery."},{"lastName":"Kushida","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"},{"focus":"Sleep Disorders"},{"focus":"Sleep Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6100&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Clete A. Kushida, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Clete","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Clete_Kushida","researchInterest":"Dr. Kushida is a neurologist and sleep specialist who directs several NIH- and industry-sponsored research studies, focused on topics such as the physical features and neurocognitive changes associated with the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, the epidemiology and treatment of restless legs syndrome/periodic limb movement disorder, primary care sleep education and training, and countermeasures for sleep loss."},{"lastName":"Holmes","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18419&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tyson H. Holmes","firstName":"Tyson","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Tyson_Holmes","researchInterest":"Dr. Holmes' research focuses on statistical solutions to challenges in medical research. This includes application of frequentist and Bayesian techniques to derive normative distributions in under-studied populations, use of regularized unsupervised learning to explore phenotypic patterning within diseases of nebulous symptom profiles, optimization of shrinkage estimators for testing hypotheses in small samples, and evaluation of causal inference for administrative database research."},{"lastName":"Leary","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"},{"appointment":"Social Science Research Assistant,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center"},{"appointment":"Social Science Research Asst,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"MS, Dean's Office","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23795&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Eileen Leary","firstName":"Eileen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Eileen_Leary","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Koltai","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Pedatric Airway Surgery"},{"focus":"Pediatric Head & Neck Surgery"},{"focus":"Pedatric Sleep Apnea"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6166&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter J. Koltai MD, FACS, FAAP","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Peter_Koltai","researchInterest":"1 - Airway and swallow evaluation of infants with micrognathia.\r\n2 - Investigating the vascular anatomy of the post cricoid region.\r\n3 - Conducting a long term follow-up of children who have had powered intracapsular tonsillectomy"},{"lastName":"Guilleminault","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"},{"focus":"Sleep Disorders"},{"focus":"Sleep Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3994&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christian Guilleminault","firstName":"Christian","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Christian_Guilleminault","researchInterest":"Cardio-respiratory dysfunction during sleep; SIDS and, sleep apnea; narcolepsy and daytime somnolence; the relationship of, sleep to accidents, aging, dementia and Alzheimer's Disease."},{"lastName":"Fischbein","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neuroradiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6383&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nancy Fischbein","firstName":"Nancy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nancy_Fischbein","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Ryali","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Research Associate,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry"},{"appointment":"Phys Sci Res Assoc,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Research Associate,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9648&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Srikanth Ryali","firstName":"Srikanth","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Srikanth_Ryali","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Feldman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics"},{"focus":"General Pediatrics"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7783&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Heidi M. Feldman","firstName":"Heidi","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Heidi_Feldman","researchInterest":"Language allows people to participate fully in the human social experience. My research centers on language development in children with disorders that put language learning at risk, including children with chronic ear infections, early focal neural injuries, intellectual disability, autism, and prematurity.  In addition to describing behavioral outcomes, my research uses diffusion tensor imaging to describe brain structure and functional magnetic resonance to evaluate brain function."},{"lastName":"Adams","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine"},{"focus":"Neonatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4684&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marian Menninger Adams, MD","firstName":"Marian","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marian_Adams","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Devarajan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurobiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19830&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sridharan Devarajan","firstName":"Sridharan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sridharan_Devarajan","researchInterest":"Attention allows us to selectively process the most important information in the sensory environment. I study how gamma-band (25-140Hz) oscillations that occur in brain circuits during attention shape behavior. I study the mechanisms and role of these oscillations in the optic tectum (superior colliculus), a midbrain structure involved in attention, sensory processing and gaze control, using a combination of recordings in live animals, in brain slices, and computational modeling."},{"lastName":"Chai","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13792&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Renjie Chai","firstName":"Renjie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Renjie_Chai","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Bruno","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10754&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jennifer Bruno","firstName":"Jennifer","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jennifer_Bruno","researchInterest":"Translational interdisciplinary research investigating neurocognitive correlates and potential biomarkers of neurodevelopmental disorders, especially autism spectrum disorders and fragile X syndrome, with the goal of advancing clinical care and health policy."},{"lastName":"Heller","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7084&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stefan Heller","firstName":"Stefan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stefan_Heller","researchInterest":"Most types of congenital and acquired hearing loss arise from damage to, or loss of hair cells, the sensory cells of the inner ear.  Our work focuses on generating mouse and human inner ear cell types from stem cells and we are interested in signaling pathways that control hair cell (re-)generation in vitro and in vivo.  In a second line of research, we are working on the identification and the molceular characterization of proteins that are important for hair cell function."},{"lastName":"Peng","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15399&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anthony Peng","firstName":"Anthony","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anthony_Peng","researchInterest":"Second messenger regulation of mechanotransduction in mammalian hair cells"},{"lastName":"Nasr","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Life Science Research Asst,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Life Science Research Asst,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=28438&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marjan Nasr","firstName":"Marjan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marjan_Nasr","researchInterest":""}]}