Michael Hoa, MD, is a surgeon-scientist and a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Hoa completed his neurotology fellowship at the House Clinic in Los Angeles in 2012. Dr. Hoa is board certified in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, otology, and neurotology. Dr. Hoa serves as the director of the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Cochlear Implant Program which provides comprehensive cochlear implant services to both pediatric and adult populations. His main research interests as an NIH-sponsored surgeon-scientist include hearing restoration and preservation and the identification of novel and repurposable therapeutics in the setting of hearing instability disorders and cochlear implantation. In addition, he has clinical interests in both surgical management of vestibular and facial nerve schwannoma, endoscopic and microscopic management of cholesteatoma and chronic ear disease, otosclerosis, paraganglioma management, and lateral skull base encephalocele and CSF leak management.

Dr. Chien is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also the principal investigator of the Section on Inner Ear Therapeutics at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).

Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, FACS, is the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, and professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery. She is a Harvard-trained ear and skull-base surgeon and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained auditory neuroscientist. She blends her surgical expertise with training in physics, molecular biology, auditory neuroscience, and systems electrophysiology to devise novel solutions tailored to the unmet needs of those with hearing loss. She is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine and President-Elect of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.