Nicole Yee Key Li-Jessen
Associate Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Canada Research Chair in Personalized Medicine of Upper Airway Health and Diseases
Associate Member
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Prof. Li-Jessen’s laboratory integrates in vitro, in vivo and in silico (computational) approaches to study upper airway health and diseases. The research goal is to generate a computational platform that can guide surgeons and speech pathologists in the best methods to repair voices that have been lost. In addition, her work in collaboration with engineers and surgeons to develop point-of-care diagnostic platform for laryngopharyngeal reflux detection, wearable e-health devices for upper airway monitoring and create immune-centric biomaterial for vocal fold reconstruction.