People in the lab
Lina Reiss, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Lab Director
![Lina Reiss photo](/sites/default/files/2019-06/IMG_4056_LinaCloseUp_small_1.jpg)
Dr. Reiss joined the Otolaryngology faculty in January 2010. She obtained an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2005. She became involved with cochlear implants when conducting research in the Hybrid cochlear implant clinical trial as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Iowa. She has a severe-profound bilateral hearing loss, has worn hearing aids since early childhood, and recently got a cochlear implant in May 2020.
Lab members and collaborators
Current lab members: Holden Sanders, Nicole Dean, Michela Mondesir, Miles Carter, Daisy Duran Navarro, Cole Pavelchek
![Lab berry picking outing at Sauvie Island Farms. From left: Nicole Dean, Jordan Hill, Briana Martinez, Courtney Austin, Michela Mondesir, Lina Reiss](/sites/default/files/2023-02/LabOutingJuly2022.jpg)
Photo, from left: Nicole Dean, Jordan Hill, Briana Martinez, Courtney Austin, Michela Mondesir, Lina Reiss
![Reiss Lab at Sauvie Island, July 2019](/sites/default/files/2022-07/SauvieIslandLabOuting2019.jpg)
Photo, from left: Holden Sanders, Katie Truong, Hannah Swanner, Paul Chung, Melissa Lawrence, Morgan Eddolls, Logan Remington, Lina Reiss, Michelle Molis
![Reiss Lab at Sauvie Island, July 2018](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Reiss%20Lab%20July%2018.jpg)
From left: Melissa Lawrence, Bess Glickman, Nishad Sathe, Lina Reiss, Irina Omelchenko, Morgan Eddolls, Yonghee Oh, Curtis Hartling
![Reiss Lab 2018](/sites/default/files/2019-06/ReissLab2018.jpg)
![Reiss Lab 2018 (in air)](/sites/default/files/2019-06/ReissLab2018_jump.jpg)
Top photo, from left: Yonghee Oh (Postdoctoral fellow), Carly Mattson (Masters student), Bess Glickman (Research assistant), Lina Reiss (Lab Director), Joe McClellan (Otolaryngology resident), Curtis Hartling (Audiologist).