Dr. Karen Tawk is a postdoctoral fellow and clinical trial manager at the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Irvine. She received her MD from the Université Saint-Joseph de Beirut (Beirut, Lebanon). She is a reviewer of the Frontiers in Surgery and Frontiers in Audiology and Otology. She worked at the Hôtel-Dieu de France and Bellevue Medical Center in Lebanon. She is the author of 37 scientific publications, most of which were published in peer-reviewed journals.