People
Left - right: Brian Morris, Kelly Lane, Celia Fernandez Brillet, Evan Vesper, Katie Mueller, Ruolan Sun, Charley Della Santina, Andrianna Ayiotis
2024 Current VNEL Members
Charles C. Della Santina, PhD MD
Director, Vestibular NeuroEngineering Lab
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
Research Assistant
Laboratory Manager and Research Study Coordinator
Research Engineer
VNEL Alumni
Meg Chow (Active Alumna and recent VNEL graduate who now works for Labyrinth Devices LLC)
PhD Biomedical Engineering
Abderrahmane Hedjoudje, MD
Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Universite de Paris Rene Descartes
Grace Tan, MD
Resident and Post-doctoral Fellow, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Formerly a Resident and Post-doctoral Fellow in Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at VNEL
Current position: Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins
Post-doctoral Fellow, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Attending neurotologist, Asan Medical Center, Seoul Korea
Amir Allak, BS MD
Premedical Post-baccalaureate research rotation.
Currently in residency for Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at University of Virginia.
PhD Biomedical Engineering 2019
Current position: Director, US Enterprise Strategy at Novartis
Biomedical Engineering undergraduate 2007-2008
Master’s student in biomedical engineering 2008-2009
Research engineer 2009-2010.
MD/PhD, Emory University
Current position: Resident Physician in Ophthalmology, Stanford University
VNEL post-doctoral fellow 2008-2010
Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins 2012-2018
Currently: Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma
PhD in Biomedical Engineering Awarded 2012
Systems Engineer at Labyrinth Devices LLC 2012-2015
Currently: Director of Research & Development, BrainQ Technologies Ltd
MSE Student - Biomedical Engineering
Julia Eron, PhD
Research Associate, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015
Currently: Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of RAS, Moscow, Russia
VNEL's first post-doctoral research fellow 2007-2009.
Currently Associate Professor of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins
Kabilar Gunalan
Biomedical Engineering undergraduate student research rotation 2004
MD/PhD Biomedical Engineering Case Western Reserve University 2018
Currently: Resident Physician, Baylor College of Medicine
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, December 2017
Current position: Principal Biomedical Engineer, Neuromodulation - Research and Core Technology, Medtronic
Russell Hayden
VNEL's first graduate student
MSE Biomedical Engineering, JHU 2007
MD Harvard Medical School
Residency in urology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Fellowship, Weill Cornell School of Medicine
Currently: Practicing urologist, Monument Health, North Dakota
Seok Min Hong, MD PhD
Visiting Scientist
Associate professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hallym University College of Medicine, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hwaseong, Korea
Manu Ben Johny, BS
Biomedical engineering PhD graduate student research rotation, 2007
BME PhD student at Johns Hopkins (Yue Lab) 2015
Current position: Assistant Professor, Columbia University
BS Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Johns Hopkins premedical student and MS in Systems Engineering
NASA engineer - Prior to entering medical school, Noble spent 13 years working as a flight systems aerospace engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. His research experience includes supporting over 15 space science missions.
MD Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Current position: Resident Physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers University 2020-2023
David Lasker, MS MBA
Senior Research Engineer, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Victor Lee
Biomedical Engineering undergraduate student research rotation 2004
Current position: Hospitalist, University of Nevada School of Medicine - Reno
2002-2008 (as a post-doc, instructor, then assistant professor in the Dept of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins). Currently Associate Professor at NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia), Conjoint Senior Lecturer at University of New South Wales School of Medicine, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Amit Patel, BS
VNEL undergraduate student 2004
Biomedical Engineering senior design project and the first person in the lab to successfully program a microcontroller for the MVP1 multichannel vestibular prosthesis.
A graduate of Albert Einstein School of Medicine and residency for Anesthesiology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Valeria Potyagaylo, MD
Medical student research rotation at Johns Hopkins. 2003-2004
Chen Hsin Lee (Tjen Sin Lie), MSE Electrical Engineering
BS Biomedical Engineering (2008) and MSE Electrical Engineering (2009)
Currently an ophthalmology resident and MD graduate of Duke University Singapore Medical Campus
Thuy-Anh Nguyen Melvin, MD
Otolaryngology resident and post-doctoral research fellow 2006-2008.
Currently attending surgeon in otolaryngology at Kaiser Midatlantic and Fairfax INOVA Hospital in Virginia.
MSE Biomedical Engineering 2011
Systems Engineer at Labyrinth Devices LLC 2021-2019 (lead engineer for electronic hardware, firmware and software design for the MVI Vestibular Implant's Power and Control Unit, 3DBinocVOG video-oculography goggle system and AHIT Automated Head Impulse Test stimulation system)
Current position: Senior Software Engineer, Medtronic
Visiting Scholar - MD PhD Student, Xian Jiaotong University
Lani Swarthout, RVT
Veterinary Technician, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Medical student researcher in 2010
MD (Johns Hopkins) 2011
Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery resident at Johns Hopkins 2001-2016
Neurotology Fellow at the University of Iowa
Current position: Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2014-2015
Currently an otolaryngology resident at the University of Minnesota
Hai Tang, MS
MSE, Electrical Engineering 2015
Shan Tang, MD
MD Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010)
Residency in in otolaryngology - head & neck surgery at New York-Presbyterian, the University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
Currently a practicing otolaryngologist in Fayetteville NC
MSE, Biomedical Engineering 2012
Systems Engineer at Labyrinth Devices LLC. 2012-2019 (lead engineer for mechanical and housing design and manufacturing for the MVI Vestibular Implant's Power and Control Unit, 3DBinocVOG video-oculography goggle system and AHIT Automated Head Impulse Test stimulation system)
Current Position: Engineer, Vestibular Implant Systems Team, MED-EL GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria
Guoliang Wang, MD
Visiting Fellow
MD student, Johns Hopkins
Collaborators:
Director, FridmanLab at Johns Hopkins
Director, Cullen Labs at Johns Hopkins and McGill University
Director, Jenks Vestibular Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Harvard School of Medicine
Clinical and Research Director of Section on Vestibular Rehabilitation
Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Chief of Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery
Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Director, Johns Hopkins Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology
Johns Hopkins Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing