Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery Team

Neurotologist/Skull Base Surgeon

Hamid R. Djalilian, M.D.

Dr. Hamid R. Djalilian is subspecialized in ear and skull base surgery. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. He completed a residency in Otolaryngology at University of Minnesota and an Otology, Neurotology, and Skull Base Surgery fellowship at Minnesota Ear, Head and Neck Clinic and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Djalilian served as director of the division of neurotology and skull base surgery at University of Illinois at Chicago for two years. Prior to joining UC Irvine, he was in practice at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and at the Los Angeles County Hospital. He was Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Head and Neck Surgery at UCLA prior to joining UC Irvine. He is widely experienced in treatment of ear disease as well as posterior and middle skull base tumors, including CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery. He also performs endoscopic approaches to the pituitary and the anterior skull base. For Dr. Djalilian's CV click here.

Anterior Skull Base and Head and Neck Surgeon/

Microvascular Reconstructive Surgeon

Jason H. Kim, M.D.

Dr. Kim completed his residency training at the University of Southern California, and fellowship training in Head and Neck/Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University. Although widely trained in the entire specialty of otolaryngology, his main focus will be on head and neck tumors and microvascular reconstructive surgery.  However, Dr. Kim has additional special interests in minimally invasive endocrine (thyroid and parathyroid) and salivary gland surgeries, as well as facial reanimation procedures for facial paralysis. 

Anterior Skull Base and Head and Neck Surgeon

William B. Armstrong, MD

     

Dr. William Armstrong is a nationally recognized head and neck cancer surgeon at The University of California, Irvine.  He is a leader in management of head and neck cancer in Southern California and he treats patient referred from across the nation.  Minimizing the side effects from cancer treatment is a critical concern of Dr. Armstrong, and he has particular interest in advancing minimally invasive diagnostic and surgical treatments in the head and neck region.  With the latest technology at his disposal he is dedicated to using the latest techniques to treat head and neck cancer while preserving the voice, swallowing, and cosmesis.

Endoscopic Anterior Skull Base Surgeon

 

Quoc A. Nguyen, MD

Dr. Quoc Nguyen  

Neurosurgeon

Mark E. Linskey, M.D.

Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UCI as well as Co-Director of the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Neuro-Oncology Program. Dr. Linskey attended Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh in 1993, as well as a neuro-oncology fellowship at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in London in 1994. He is certified by the American Board of Neurosurgery. His clinical interests include skull base microsurgery, adult and pediatric malignant and benign brain tumors, Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery, and microvascular decompression for cranial nerve disorders. Research interests include molecular epidemiology and biomarkers for brain tumors, developmental glial biology, radiobiology, brain tumor clinical trials, and clinical outcomes studies. Click here for more on Dr. Linskey.

Audiologist

Alicia Traktman, Au.D.

Dr. Traktman completed her Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Hearing Sciences from University of California, Santa Barbara. She then completed her Master of Arts in Communicative Disorders (emphasis in Audiology), from San Diego State University and completed her Doctor of Audiology from Arizona School of Health Sciences; A.T. Still University. She has been a practicing audiologist in the Orange County area for 15 years with extensive background with children and adults. She joined the UCI team 2 years ago. She has been invited to speak at numerous places on hearing loss.

Jeffrey Carroll, Ph.D.

Dr. Carroll is the director of our tinnitus center. He completed his Ph.D. at UC Irvine under the direction of Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng. He is the director of the tinnitus center. Dr. Carroll focuses his practice on the treatment of patients with tinnitus and hearing loss. He employs innovative solutions for the treatment of tinnitus.

Ginger Stickney, Ph.D.

Dr. Stickney is an audiologist, certified by the American Board of Audiology. She has worked with cochlear implants for many years and currently is the director of the director of the cochlear implant program at UCI. She was formerly an audiologist at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. Her practice is limited to cochlear implants in children and adults.

 

Director of Research

Fan-Gang Zeng, Ph.D.

Fan-Gang Zeng received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982, the M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Academia Sinica in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in Hearing Science from Syracuse University, New York in 1990. He worked at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles from 1990 to 1998.He was a tenured faculty member in Hearing and Speech Science at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1998 to 2000. He has been Research Director in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, and Professor in Anatomy and Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine since 2000. He has published 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, 20 book chapters, and 2 books including a volume on cochlear implants in Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (Springer-Verlag, New York). He holds 7 U.S. Patents and has given more than 100 invited presentations worldwide. Dr. Zeng is an Associate Editor multiple scientific publications and reviews grants for the NIH among many other foundations.

John Middlebrooks, Ph.D.

John C. Middlebrooks joined the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at UC Irvine as a Professor in July, 2008. He was trained at the California Institute of Technology (B.S., 1976), UC San Francisco (Ph.D., 1982), and Stanford University (post-doc, 1985). Prior to UC Irvine, he has been a member of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering departments at the University of Florida and University of Michigan. Dr. Middlebrooks uses neurophysiology and psychophysics to study the brain mechanisms of hearing. His NIH-supported research includes studies of cortical responses to cochlear implant stimulation, studies of cortical mechanisms of spatial hearing, and tests of the feasibility of an auditory nerve implant for auditory prosthesis. A major emphasis in the laboratory currently is to translate an auditory nerve implant toward human application. Dr. Middlebrooks is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and as a Council Member at Large for the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. He is a frequent reviewer for NIH review panels and various scientific journals.

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