Meredith Adams, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.  She completed medical school (’03), Otolaryngology residency (’08) and fellowship training in Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery (’10) at the University of Michigan.  She will receive a Master’s degree in Clinical Research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in December 2018.

Dr. Adams’s clinical practice is focused on treating disorders of the ear and lateral skull base.  Her research program is focused on optimizing the diagnostic evaluation and treatment of patients with dizziness and balance disorders, as well as other inner ear disorders.  She is funded by NIH (R21) to study diagnostic health service utilization for dizziness using the Optum Labs Data Warehouse. She also serves as the UMN site PI for a diagnostic clinical trial of a novel neuroimaging paradigm for tinnitus (DoD) and as a major co-investigator in a multi-institutional initiative to develop a direct auditory nerve implant for hearing loss (NIH).