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Jay T. Rubinstein, MD, PhD

Virginia Merrill Bloedel Professor and Director
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, United States

Dr Rubinstein is Virginia Merrill Bloedel Professor and Director of the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center at the University of Washington. He received ScB/ScM degrees in Engineering at Brown University in 1981/83. He received an MD and PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Washington in 1987/88. He completed postdoctoral research training at MIT and residency in Otolaryngology in 1994 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He completed a Neurotology fellowship at the University of Iowa in 1995 staying as Assistant then Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Bioengineering. In 2003/04 he was the Boerhaave Professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is currently Virginia Merrill Bloedel Professor of Otolaryngology and Bioengineering and Director, Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington. He has been President of the American Auditory Society and the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. He is a member of the Collegium Otorhinolaryngologicum, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering as well as a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is president-elect of the Politzer Society. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles in both clinical and basic science journals and has mentored 18 predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees in basic and translational research, as well as providing clinical training to a large number of otolaryngology residents and fellows. He maintains a surgical practice at both UW Medical Center and Seattle Childrens. His laboratory studies models of, signal processing in and perception with cochlear implants, and the development of a vestibular implant, as well as human behavioral characterization of genetic hearing loss and non-human primate models of auditory gene therapy.

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