We are excited to offer our 2nd annual Research Symposium: Forward through Discovery! We look forward to highlighting our keynote speaker and department research.
Thank you to our planning committee for organizing this event!
For questions, please contact:
Mackenzie Taylor
Research Administrative Specialist
mtaylor56@wisc.edu
Program of Events
| Time | Topic |
| 7:55 – 8:00 am | Welcome |
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | So, you want to do research? |
| Nadine Connor, PhD, CCC-SLP | |
| Professor; Oros Family Chair; Voice Research Training Program Co-Director; Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Policy and Compliance | |
| Ruth Davis, MD | |
| Assistant Professor; Associate Vice Chair for Trainee Research | |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am | Podium Talks |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:30 am | Poster Session 1 |
| 11:30 – 1:00 pm | Lunch and Poster Session 2 |
| 1:00 -2:00 pm | Keynote |
| Charles Limb, MD | |
| 2:00 – 3:00 pm | Podium Talks |
| 3:00 – 3:30 pm | Pitch Perfect |
| 3:30 pm | Announcement of Awards and Closing Remarks |
Nadine Connor, PhD, CCC-SLP
Dr. Connor is a translational researcher whose work focuses on disorders of voice, swallowing, and upper airway function across the lifespan. Her research program seeks to understand the biological mechanisms underlying cranial sensorimotor function, with a particular emphasis on how aging, disease, and rehabilitation affect the muscles and neural systems involved in communication and swallowing. Her research has been continuously supported by extramural federal funding for more than 25 years. Her laboratory applies multiple approaches to model and identify mechanisms of dysfunction and develop strategies to preserve swallowing and voice throughout the lifespan. See more about Dr. Connor here.
Ruth Davis, MD
Dr. Davis is a translational and clinical researcher with a focus on voice and airway disorders. Her research program aims to understand the intersection of the laryngeal microenvironment, local immune response, and extracellular matrix remodeling to develop novel targeted treatments for voice disorders. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, the Triological Society, the American College of Surgeons, the Wisconsin Head and Neck Cancer SPORE, and the Wisconsin Partnership Program. Her primary areas of study include laryngeal wound healing, laryngotracheal stenosis, aging voice, and laryngeal leukoplakia. Her research program applies cutting edge techniques in immunology, microbiology, transcriptomics and animal modeling to study novel treatments for laryngeal disease. See more about Dr. Davis here.
2027 Keynote Speaker
Charles Limb, MD
Dr. Charles Limb is the Francis A. Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and the Chief of the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at University of California, San Francisco. He is the Director of the Douglas Grant Cochlear Implant Center at UCSF and he is the Medical Director of Cochlear Implantation at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery.
Dr. Limb received his undergraduate degree at Harvard University and his medical training at Yale University School of Medicine, followed by surgical residency and fellowship in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Hearing Sciences at Johns Hopkins with Dr. David Ryugo studying the development of the auditory brainstem, and a second postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health studying neural mechanisms of musical improvisation and perception using functional neuroimaging methods. He was at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1996 to 2015, where he was Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and a Faculty Member at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. He left in 2015 to join the UCSF Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.
Dr. Limb’s expertise covers the full scope of otology and neurotology, with a focus on the treatment of hearing loss and auditory disorders. He specializes in all surgery of the temporal bone, with particular expertise in acoustic neuroma surgery, cochlear implant surgery, implantable hearing aids, stapes surgery, cholesteatoma surgery, and cancers of the ear. His current areas of research focus on the study of the neural basis of musical creativity as well as the study of music perception in deaf individuals with cochlear implants. He is the past Editor-in-Chief of Trends in Amplification (now Trends in Hearing), the only journal explicitly focused on auditory amplification devices and hearing aids, and an Editorial Board member of the journals Otology and Neurotology and Music and Medicine. His work has received international attention and has been featured by National Public Radio, TED, National Geographic, the New York Times, PBS, CNN, Scientific American, the British Broadcasting Company, the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress, the Sundance Film Festival, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Limb is certified in robotic-assisted cochlear implantation.
Planning Committee
- Susan Thibeault
- Lisa Sampson
- Jason Brant
- Paula Demitrio de Souza Franca
- Monique North
- Vlasta Lungova
- Se-in Kim
- John Russell
- Gunnar Quass
- Junseo Cha
- Mackenzie Taylor
Previous DOHNS Research Symposiums
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