Current Fellows

Alexander Claussen (PGY-6)
Hometown: Edwardsville, IL
Undergrad: University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Medical School: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Outside Interests: Coffee, travel, ultra trail running, mountain biking
Research Interests: Cochlear implant biology, intracochlear inflammation and loss of residual acoustic hearing after cochlear implantation, pharmacologic otoprotection

Yin Ren, MD, PhD (PGY-7)
Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI
Undergraduate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Graduate School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Outside Interests: food and cooking, traveling, photography, soccer, hiking, spending time with family
Research Interests: Biomarkers in vestibular schwannomas and hearing loss, drug delivery to inner ear, nanotechnology, hearing preservation outcomes