Nelson Y.S. Kiang is founder and former director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology and professor emeritus of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....

. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 in 1955, and an honorary medical degree from the University of Geneva. In 1992 he was instrumental in the formation of the Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology

Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology

The Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology PhD program in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology is an interdisciplinary training program designed to produce the next generation of pioneers in basic and clinical speech and hearing research. The program was established in...

 program which he directed for several years before handing it over to Dr. Louis Braida. His first doctoral student, M. Charles Liberman

M. Charles Liberman

Dr. Michael Charles Liberman, PhD was born to Alvin Liberman and Isabelle Liberman in Storrs, Connecticut. He is now Director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, MA and at Harvard Medical School...

, replaced him as director of Eaton-Peabody.

External links

• http://hst.mit.edu/shbt/ Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (official program website)
• http://epl.meei.harvard.edu/ Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology
• http://www.mastersofportraitart.com/portraitartists/richardwhitney/portraits/kiang.htm Portrait of Nelson Kiang