Dr. Nicole Jiam is a board-certified, fellowship-trained surgeon-scientist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the ear and skull base. She is the Director of the UCSF Otolaryngology Innovation Center. Dr. Jiam's research expertise focuses on personalized approaches for cochlear implant programming, complex sound processing, music perception, flat-panel CT imaging, and machine learning/artificial intelligence.

She is the past spARO chair of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) and holds strategic and scientific positions within international professional societies including ARO, AAS, and ASHA. Within the Bay Area, she served as the Vice President of the San Francisco Opera BRAVO! Board of Directors, where she spearheaded educational initiatives on music and science between UCSF and the SFOpera.

As an entrepreneur and innovator, Dr. Jiam is also the CEO & co-founder of IIAM Corporation - a healthtech venture vastly improving the new patient referrals for subspecialty clinics. She is a co-inventor of a medical device for nasal inflammatory disorders. In her free time, she has served as a board member on several non-profit health & fine arts organizations and worked as a consultant for medical education companies.

Education and Training:
• Undergraduate: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
• Residency: University of California, San Francisco – Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
• Fellowship: Harvard & Mass Eye and Ear – Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery
• Post Doctoral: Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Harvard - Lab of Julie G. Arenberg