James O. Phillips, PhD

The UW provides an extraordinary environment for research, teaching and clinical practice. Here I can participate in translational research. I can study motor and sensory function in humans and use basic biological models. I can see patients in the clinic and teach undergraduates, graduate students, and residents. I have an opportunity to collaborate with some of the finest researchers in the world. That is pretty great.

James O. Phillips, PhD, joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 1998 and is currently a research professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He is also the director of the Dizziness and Balance Center at the UW Medical Center, the Vestibular Diagnostic Laboratory at UWMC, and the Roger Johnson Clinical Oculomotor Laboratory in the Division of Ophthalmology at Seattle Children's Hospital. Prior to joining UW, he earned a PhD in psychology and in physiology from the University of Washington. Dr. Phillips teaches in the Departments of Otolaryngology-HNS, Ophthalmology, and Speech and Hearing Sciences. He is a faculty research affiliate of the National Primate Research Center, the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, the Center on Human Development and Disability, and the Autism Center at the University of Washington. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Navigation and Communication Sciences at the University of Rochester and the Center for Integrative Brain Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute. He is on the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of the Vestibular Disorders Association.

Undergraduate Education: Pomona College, B.A., English Literature

Graduate Education: University of Washington, Ph.D., Psychology/Physiology

Fellowship: University of Washington, Neurophysiology

Other Training: Post-Doctoral Trainee, University of Washington, Neurophysiology

Memberships: Society for Neuroscience, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Society for the Neural Control of Movement, Barany Society, New York Academy of Sciences, American Physiological Society, Vestibular Disorders Association

1997: Fellow, A.R.V.O./N.E.I.

1994: Finalist, Lindsley prize in Behavioral Neuroscience

1988: Fellow, James S. McDonnell Foundation 

Diagnosis and treatment of vestibular and oculomotor disorders in children and adults.