Dr. Oliver F. Adunka is the William H. Saunders MD Endowed Professor and the Vice-Chair for Clinical Operations in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery at The Ohio State University. He also serves as the Director of the Division of Otology, Neurotology, and Cranial Base Surgery within the department. Further, he is the Director of Pediatric Otology & the Hearing Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States. Dr. Adunka is an NIH-funded clinician-scientist. His clinical practice includes all aspects of otology, neurotology, and lateral skull base surgery but especially cochlear implantation and complex posterior as well as middle fossa skull base surgery for sporadic disease as well as for Neurofibromatosis Type II. He has a special interest in real-time monitoring during cochlear implant electrode insertion to improve future generations of cochlear implants.