Dr. Nicole Jiam is a Neurotology & Skull Base Surgeon at the University of California - San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery residency at UCSF. She received her M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and holds a B.A. in Neuroscience with Honors and a minor in Entrepreneurship & Management from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Jiam's research expertise includes cochlear implantation, complex sound processing, music perception, health tech, and ML/AI. As an entrepreneur and innovator, Dr. Jiam is the CEO & co-founder of IIAM - a digital health start-up venture facilitating efficient, secure medical information exchange. She is also a co-inventor of a medical device for nasal inflammatory disorders. In her free time, she has served as a board member on several non-profit health & fine arts organizations and worked as a consultant for medical education and healthcare companies.