Calvin Kersbergen, MD, PhD

Calvin Kersbergen, MD, PhD, grew up in rural central Maine on his family’s organic farm. He attended Cornell University, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in biological engineering, then subsequently matriculated in the combined MD-PhD training program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

At Hopkins, Dr. Kersbergen obtained a PhD in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Dr. Dwight Bergles, PhD. Here, he studied how the developing inner ear and brain communicate to form and refine connections critical for detecting and processing sound and identified how these mechanisms are altered in models of early hearing loss. He was awarded the Haskins K. Kashima, MD Prize in Otolaryngology and the Martin and Carol Macht Research Award, and he was selected as a Solomon H. Snyder Research Scholar. As a medical student, Dr. Kersbergen also worked to identify and address persistent gender disparities in physician-scientist training, and he remains an active member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology trainee steering committee.

Dr. Kersbergen’s interests include cochlear electrophysiology, medical education and development of novel targeted therapeutics for hearing loss.

Education

Undergraduate
Cornell University (Biological Engineering)

Medical School
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Graduate School
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (PhD, Neuroscience)

Publications

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