• Our Team
• Fellows
• Residents
• Physicians / Faculty
• Amit Agrawal, MD
• Lauren Bakaletz, PhD
• Kamran Barin, PhD
• Brad W. deSilva, MD
• Edward E. Dodson, MD
• Charles Elmaraghy, MD
• L. Arick Forrest, MD
• Abraham Jacob, MD
• D. Richard Kang, MD
• Jas C. Lang, PhD
• Doug Massick, MD
• Susan Nittoruer PhD
• Enver Ozer, MD
• Minka Schofield, MD
• David E. Schuller, MD
• Stephen P. Smith, Jr., MD
• Michael D. Trudeau, Ph.D., CCC/SLP
• D. Bradley Welling, MD, PhD
• Gregory J. Wiet, MD, FACS, FAAP
• Emeritus

Title: Professor of Pediatrics and Otolaryngology

Under Grad: The Ohio State University, College of Biological Sciences

Graduate School: Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University

Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Otological Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology, OSUMCv

Current affiliation: Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis that underlie the polymicrobial disease otitis media (OM), with a particular interest in bacterial adhesins and other determinants that contribute to biofilm formation.  Design, development and pre-clinical testing of vaccine candidates for the prevention of OM.

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