Dr. Jan is a surgeon-scientist with an interest in developmental and regenerative biology of the inner ear, with the ultimate goal of translating laboratory discoveries into therapies for hearing loss and balance disorders.

Dr. Jan is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and a member of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute. He is a board-certified Otologist, Neurotologist, and Skull Base Surgeon. He graduated with a bachelor's in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Vanderbilt University before attending medical school at Stanford University, followed by residency in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Program in Boston. Dr. Jan completed the Stanford Clinician Scientist Training Program (T32 postdoctoral fellowship) and an Otology, Neurotology, and Skull Base Surgery clinical fellowship at Stanford before joining UCSF as an Assistant Professor. He returned to Vanderbilt in July 2022, where his NIH-funded laboratory focuses on single-cell genomics and regenerative mechanisms in the inner ear, and leverages Vanderbilt's BioVU biorepository to investigate the genetics of hearing loss and balance disorders in human populations. Dr. Jan also serves as site principal investigator for first-in-human gene therapy trials targeting OTOF-related hearing loss and vestibular schwannoma.