Assistant Professor
Division of Neurotology & Skull Base Surgery
Medical Director, Department of Audiology
Specialty:
Otology, neurotology, lateral skull base surgery, acoustic tumors, cochlear implants, hearing preservation, chronic ear disease.
Contact Information:
- Appointment Scheduler: (984) 974-6484
- Surgery Scheduler: Ali Turner 984-974-1912
Education:
- PhD: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 2005-2007
- MD: University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 2007-2011
- Residency: Dept. of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 2011-2016
- Fellowship: Clinical Neurotology Fellowship, The Otology Group of Vanderbilt, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, 2016-2018
Professional Experience:
- Assistant Professor: Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 8/2018
Honors:
- 2017 Awarded U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/490,545 entitled: “Otologic Surgical Skills Trainer”
- 2016 Awarded U.S. Patent 9,342,997 entitled “Modular Staged Reality Surgical Simulator”
- 2014 New England Otolaryngology Society Meeting, First Place Talk “Pediatric Vocal Fold Imaging with Optical Coherence Tomography”
- 2014 American Broncho-Esophagological Association Foreign Body Citation Award
- 2010 Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, elected as Junior
- 2010 Medical Alumni Loyalty Fund Scholar
- 2009 Letter of Recognition, Thoracic Surgery Director’s Association
- 2009 Ira M. Hardy II Medical Alumni Loyalty Fund Scholar
- 2008 Research Grant, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, & Kidney Diseases
- 2007 Keynote speaker at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry Banquet
- 2007 Medical Alumni Loyalty Fund Scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- 2006 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2005 Award for the most accessed Journal of the American Chemical Society article in the first half of 2005
- 2005 Travel award to attend the Keystone Symposium on the Frontiers of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Molecular Biology
- 2004 Fellow of the Cambridge Overseas Society
- 2002 St. John’s College Benefactor’s Scholarship
- 2002 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2002 Awarded Gates-Cambridge Scholarship
- 2002 Venable Medal, University of North Carolina Department of Chemistry
- 2002 Phi Beta Kappa
- 2002 Award from the North Carolina Chapter of the American Chemical Society
- 2002 David L. Stern Scholarship, University of North Carolina Department of Chemistry
- 2001 Commendation, International Young Chemistry Writer of the Year
- 2001 Smallwood Undergraduate Research Fellowship
- 2000 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates
- 1998 Edward Smith Family Carolina Scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1998 Albert G. Myers Scholarship
Recent Publications:
For recent publications, please visit Dr. Dedmon’s PubMed listing.
