Lloyd Minor, M.D.

Provost and Senior Vice President,
The Johns Hopkins University
Professor
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

A professor in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Lloyd B. Minor, is an otologist and neurotologist who specializes in balance disorders. In September 2009, Dr. Lloyd Minor was appointed provost and senior vice president of academic affairs for The Johns Hopkins University.

In 1998, Dr. Minor and his colleagues described a clinical syndrome of vertigo and balance disturbance which they discovered is caused by tiny holes in canals in the inner ear. They later devised a surgical procedure to correct the anatomical abnormality. Dr. Minor, whose research has received continuous support from the National Institutes of Health for the past 14 years, also studies the causes of and potential treatments for other problems involving balance, including Ménière’s disease. 

Dr. Minor is a past president of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and has served as the chair of the Auditory Research Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (2003–2005). At Johns Hopkins, he chairs the Practice Management Committee of the Clinical Practice Association and the Administrative Committee of the Medical Board of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

After earning both his bachelor’s degree (1979) and medical degree (1982) from Brown University, Dr. Minor completed his two-year core surgical residency at Duke University. He then completed a four-year postdoctoral research fellowship in vestibular (balance) physiology and residency in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at the University of Chicago. Following his residency, Dr. Minor was a clinical fellow at the Otology Group and the EAR Foundation in Nashville, Tenn.

Recruited to Hopkins in 1993, Dr. Minor is a professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery, biomedical engineering and neuroscience. In 2003, he became director of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.

He will discuss Balancing New Solutions for Hearing Loss at A Woman's Journey 2009 in Session II, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.