Masters Degree
Diplom-Physiker (Masters Degree in Physics), 1974 Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)

Doctoral Degree
Dr. rer.-nat. (PhD), Universitaet Goettingen, FRG, 1977 Medizinisches Staatsexamen (MD), Universitaet Goettingen, FRG Dr. med. (Doctoral Thesis in Medicine), Max-Planck-Institut Für, 1981 Biophys. Chemie, Goettingen

Fellowship
Otolaryngology Fellowship, 1981 - 1982 University of California, San Francisco Otolaryngology Research Fellowship, 1983 - 1984 University of California, San Francisco

Christoph E. Schreiner, MD, PhD is Vice-Chairman of the Department, and Co-Director of the Coleman Memorial Laboratory. His current research focuses on the of coding complex auditory signals in the brain and the development of approaches to explore the physiology and pathophysiology of central nervous mechanisms in hearing.

Undergraduate
BS, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1982

Masters Degree
MS, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1985

Doctoral Degree
PhD, University of California, Berkeley CA, 1994

Ben Bonham, PhD conducts research directed toward the amelioration of hearing deficits. Dr. Bonham's physiological studies are designed to compare the neural processing of information provided via cochlear implants with processing of information provided via normally functioning ears. These results of these studies will indicate specific changes in implants and processing strategies that are most likely to improve patient performance.

Undergraduate
BS, California Institute of Technology, 1985

Masters Degree
MS, Computer Science, 1990 Duke University, NC

Doctoral Degree
PhD, Brain and Cognitive Science, 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA

Fellowship
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1997 – 2001 Department of Otolaryngology – HNS, University of California, San Francisco

Dr. John F. Houde conducts research in speech auditory feedback in learning and maintenance of speech. His project examines whether speech exhibits long-term adaptation in response to altered auditory feedback.

Undergraduate
BS (Cum Laude), Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH, 1970

Masters Degree
MA, Department of Anatomy, 1972 University of California, San Francisco

Doctoral Degree
PhD, Department of Anatomy, 1976 University of California, San Francisco

Fellowship
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1976 - 1977 Coleman Laboratory, Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco

As Sullivan Chair and Research Director of the Epstein Laboratory, Patricia A. Leake, PhD examines the mechanisms underlying the development of neural connections from the cochlea to the auditory CNS brainstem cochlear nuclei. Her research focuses on improving cochlear implants, and their neurotrpohic effects on the developing auditory nervous system.

Undergraduate
BS, University of Portland, Portland, OR, 1964

Doctoral Degree
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 1968

Fellowship
Neurophysiology Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1968 - 1971

Michael M. Merzenich, PhD is Co- Director of the Coleman Memorial Laboratory. His research focuses on understanding how the cerebral cortex represents, remembers, controls and employs complex input and action events. Additionally, Dr. Merzenich's research investigates how brain learning processes contribute to the ontogenesis and expressions of human neurological illnesses.

Education
BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1966

Doctoral Degree
PhD, University of Chicago, IL, 1973

Fellowship
University of California, San Francisco

Russell L. Snyder, PhD conducts research that focuses on the anatomical and physiological effects of experience on the central auditory system. In particular, he studies the effects of selective deprivation produced by frequency selective cochlea lesions and cochlear implant stimulation in animals.