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Head, Section of Otology & Neurotology
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nancy M. Young, M.D., the Lillian S. Wells Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is Head of the Section of Otology and Neurotology in the Division of Otolaryngology at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, where she is also Medical Director of the Cochlear Implant Program and Audiology Department. She is a Fellow of the Knowles Hearing Center of the Northwestern University School of Communication. Dr. Young's clinical practice is dedicated to diagnosis and management of hearing loss in children, with a focus on cochlear implantation.
Dr. Young is founder of the Lurie Children’s Cochlear Implant Program which has grown to be the largest in the United States. She is primary investigator of NIH funded research using artificial intelligence to predict language of children receiving a cochlear implant. The goal of this international collaboration is effective intervention to improve the performance of children at risk not to develop age-appropriate language after implantation.
Dr. Young is a member of Council of the American Otological Society, served as member of the Executive Council of the American Neurotology Society, and was a founding board member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Journal Otology and Neurotology.