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
D
r.
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.
To Make an Appointment,
Please Call 714-456-7017.