Otolaryngology Surgeon-Scientist
Principal Investigator, Auditory Development and Restoration Program
Dr. Hoa received a B.A. from Boston University and an M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed an otolaryngology-head and neck surgery residency at Wayne State University (2009); a neurotology fellowship at House Ear Clinic (2012); and a T32 USC/HRI Hearing and Communications Neuroscience Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship (2013). Dr. Hoa studied mechanisms responsible for the development of the organ of Corti and auditory regeneration in the laboratory of Neil Segil, Ph.D., where he used a combination of fluorescent-activated cell sorting (FACS), confocal microscopy, and live culture systems to investigate mechanisms relating to hair cell regeneration in the perinatal mouse.
Dr. Hoa is an alumnus of NIDCD's Otolaryngology Surgeon-Scientist Program. Dr. Hoa is also a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and has an active clinical practice in Washington, DC.
Broadly, Dr. Hoa’s lab is focused on identifying ways to restore and preserve hearing. Dr. Hoa’s current work focuses on identifying repurposable and novel treatments for hearing instability disorders (most commonly Ménière’s disease, autoimmune inner ear disease, and sudden sensorineural hearing loss) through laboratory-based and clinical protocol-based investigation. His laboratory uses a variety of bench- and clinic-based techniques to investigate hearing instability disorders including molecular biology, electrophysiology, immunology, multi-omics (including single cell transcriptomics), audiometric studies, radiology, and bioinformatics.
Auditory Development and Restoration Program