Maie St. John, MD, PhD
Department Chair and Professor
Primary Interests: Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
Dinesh Chhetri, MD
Professor-in-ResidenceVice Chair of Clinical Affairs
Primary Interests: Voice, Airway, and Swallowing Disorders
Jennifer Long, MD, PhD
Professor-in-ResidenceVice Chair of Research
Primary Interests: Voice, Airway, and Swallowing disorders
Vishad Nabili, MD
Professor-in-ResidenceVice Chair of Academic Affairs
Primary Interests: Facial Plastic Surgery, MOHs Reconstruction
Elliot Abemayor, MD, PhD
Professor-in Residence
Gerald Berke, MD
Professor
Primary Interests: Laryngology, voice disorders, and oncology
Keith Blackwell, MD
Primary Interests: Microvascular and reconstructive surgery
ProfessorVice Chair of Clinical Affairs
Quinton S. Gopen, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Head & Neck Surgery
Primary Interests: Neurotology and skull base surgery
Michael Holliday, MD
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor
Primary Interests: General Head and Neck Surgery, Laryngology (Voice, Airway, Swallowing Disorders)
Akira Ishiyama, MD
Primary Interests: Neurotology
Natalie Kadin, MD
Primary Interests: General Head and Neck Surgery
Paul A. Kedeshian, MD
Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor
Primary Interests: Head and neck oncology
Rhorie Kerr, MD
Assistant Professor-in-Residence
Primary Interests: Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgery and Plastic Surgery of the Head and Neck
Irene A. Kim, MD, MBA
Primary Interests: Facial reanimation after facial paralysis, facial plastic surgery, microvascular reconstructive surgery, facial trauma, MOHs reconstruction
Ashley Kita, MD
Primary Interests: Comprehensive Otolaryngology Care
Jivianne T. Lee, MD
Primary Interests: Nasal and Sinus disease, endoscopic skull base surgery
Associate ProfessorVice Chair of Research
Abie H. Mendelsohn, MD
Primary Interests: Transoral Laser (TLM) and Transoral Robotic (TORS) Surgery
Clinical ProfessorVice Chair of Academic Affairs
Joel Sercarz, MD
Professor-in-Residence
Primary Interests: Head and neck oncology, thyroid and parathyroid
Nina Shapiro, MD
Primary Interests: Pediatric otolaryngology
Travis Shiba, MD
Primary Interests: General Head and Neck Surgery, Voice, Airway & Swallowing, Nasal & Sinus Surgery, Thyroid & Parathyroid Surgery
Jeffrey Suh, MD
Primary Interests: Nasal and sinus disease, head and neck oncology
Marilene Wang, MD
Primary Interests: Head and neck oncology, nasal and sinus disease
Alisha West, MD
Primary Interests: Pediatric Otolaryngology, hearing loss, allergy
Janice Chang, MD
Staff Physician
Oliver Gantz, MD
Roger Dafter, PhD
Associate Director, Mind-Body Medicine Group, UCLA Head and Neck SurgeryClinical and Health Psychologist
Primary Interests: Role of emotions in mind/body healing
David Rapkin, PhD
Clinical and Health PsychologistFounding Director, Mind-Body Medicine Group, UCLA Division of Head and Neck Surgery
Primary Interests: Guided Imagery and Clinical Hypnosis
Charlene Williams, PhD
Clinical and Health PsychologistClinical Programs Director, Mind-Body Medicine Group, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA
Primary Interests: Hypnosis as preparation for surgery
Sandra A. Alexander, MS, SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT
Senior Speech/Language Pathologist
Lisa M. Owens, AuD, CCC-SLP/A
Audiologist, Speech Pathologist
Primary Interests: Director, House Children’s Hearing Center of UCLA
Reynita R. Sagon-Alcisto, AuD
Audiologist
Naomi K. Smith, AuD
Educational Liaison
David Berry, PhD
Professor-in-ResidenceDirector, Laryngeal Dynamics Laboratory
Primary Interests: Laryngeal dynamics and high-speed imaging
Qian-Jie Fu, PhD
Professor-in-ResidenceDirector, Signal Processing and Auditory Research Laboratory
Bruce R. Gerratt, PhD, SLP
Emeritus Professor
Primary Interests: Voice and motor speech disorders
Marco Giovannini, MD, PhD
Professor-in-ResidenceDirector, Neural Tumor Research Laboratory
Larry Hoffman, PhD
Adjunct ProfessorDirector, Vestibular Neuroscience Laboratory
Primary Interests: Vestibular and neuroscience research
Federico Kalinec, PhD
Professor-in-Residence Director, Auditory Cell Biology Laboratory
Primary Interests: Structure and function of auditory cells
Jody Kreiman, PhD
Professor-in-ResidenceCo-Director, Voice Perception Laboratory
Primary Interests: Perception and production of voice
Ivan Lopez, PhD
Adjunct ProfessorDirector, Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Inner Ear Laboratory
Primary Interests: Molecular anatomy of inner ear
Sung K. Moon, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor-In-ResidenceCo-Director, Pathogenesis of Ear Diseases Laboratory
Primary Interests: Role of spiral ligament fibrocytes in cochlear inflammation
Zhaoyan Zhang, PhD
Professor-in-ResidenceCo-Director, Speech Production Laboratory
Primary Interests: Speech production
