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Eliot Shearer, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, United States

Dr. Eliot Shearer is a pediatric otolaryngologist at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and has a special interest in the surgical management of pediatric ear disorders, including hearing loss, ossicular abnormalities, cholesteatoma, bone anchored hearing aids, cochlear implantation, and gene therapy.

Dr. Shearer is currently a member of the Cochlear Implant Program at BCH and is the Principal Investigator of the Translational Hearing Genomics Lab. His laboratory studies the genomics of hearing loss. He is internationally recognized for his work in developing a new genetic testing platform for the diagnosis of hearing loss and has written many research articles and several book chapters on the subject. Dr. Shearer also studies ways to improve newborn hearing screen tests using new technologies. He is the site principal investigator for multiple gene therapy clinical trials.

Dr. Shearer completed his otolaryngology residency training at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics. He completed a fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at BCH and Harvard Medical School.

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