Department of Otorhinolaryngology

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Otorhinolaryngology

Faculty, Staff, and Students

Director

James C. Saunders, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator

Auditory Research Lab, 5-Ravdin-ORL
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-898-7504
Email: saunderj@mail.med.upenn.edu
Research Interests
  • Auditory developmental neurobiology
  • Cochlear and hair cell micromechanics and transduction
  • Peripheral and central auditory nervous system signal processing
  • Hair cell injury repair and regeneration
  • Consequences of intense sound on hearing

Affiliations

Academic Departments in UPHS
Academic Departments outside UPHS

Additional Faculty

Thomas D. Parsons VMD, PhD
School of Veterinary Medicine
Interests: Cellular/molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and vesicle transport
Current Research: Role of hair cell neurotransmission in hearing
Email: thd@vet.upenn.edu

Michael Anne Gratton, PhD
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Interests: Cellular/molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and vesicle transport
Current Research: Role of hair cell neurotransmission in hearing
Email: grattonm@mail.med.upenn.edu

Michael J. Ruckenstein, MD
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Interests: Immunologic basis of hearing loss
Current Research: Immunologic and auto-immune mechanisms of hearling loss
Email: michael.ruckenstein@uphs.upenn.edu

Sheldon A. Steinberg, VMD, DMSc
School of Veterinary Medicine
Interests: Mechanisms of genetic hearing loss
Current Research: Characterize the electrophysiologic and pathologic features of deafness in the Nervous Pointer dog
Email: sas@vet.upenn.edu

Collaborative Faculty

E. Bryan Crenshaw III, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Interests: Neurosurgery
Email: crenshaw@email.chop.edu

J. Carl Oberholtzer
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Interests: Pathology
Email: oberholt@mail.med.upenn.edu

James H. Eberwine, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Interests: Pharmacology
Email: eberwine@mscf.med.upenn.edu