Organization: UNC / UNC Health

J. Madison Clark, MD, FACS, is the W. Paul Biggers Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology/HNS, Chief of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (FPRS), Director of the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship, and Adjunct Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery at UNC. Dr. Clark’s research interests...

Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: pediatric cochlear implantation, single-sided deafness, electroacoustic stimulation

Dr. Wu is an Associate Professor of Radiology and the Biomedical Research Imaging Center and the Director of the Radiochemistry Core at UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Wu’s research has focused on building novel radiolabeling platform for multimodality molecular imaging probe construction, and developing new imaging and therapeutic agents by targeting...

Cell cycle, ubiquitin, structural biology, Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome

Hearing loss; listening and spoken language

Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: use of MRI and PET to investigate pathophysiology, anatomy and cognitive function in neurological disease processes Greatest interests have been in MRI and PET imaging of the effects of immunological disease upon the CNS. Other interests include imaging of epilepsy and head and neck cancer.

Pediatric Cochlear Implants

We use genetic and biochemical approaches and animal models of disease to study how the intestinal pathogen Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) colonizes the intestinal tract and causes disease. We are focused on signal transduction pathways and stochastic bet-hedging strategies used by this bacterium to adapt to the intestinal environment and...

My career as a speech-language pathologist has concentrated on working with children of various ages who are deaf or hard of hearing to gain access to spoken language through listening. As the Speech Clinic Manager with UNC’s Cochlear Implant Team, I have helped children throughout the state of NC with...