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Dr. Charles Limb is the Francis A. Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Chief of the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at UC San Francisco. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Neurological Surgery at UCSF. He is the Director of the UCSF Douglas Grant Cochlear Implant Center and the Past President of the American Auditory Society. Dr. Limb is the Co- Director of the Sound Health Network sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. He is also the PI of a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab that studies the neural basis of musical creativity. Dr. Limb was selected as the 2022 NIH Clinical Center Distinguished Clinical Research Scholar and Educator in Residence. He was also named in 2022 as one of the Kennedy Center’s Next 50, a group of fifty national cultural leaders. His work on creativity and music perception in cochlear implant users has been featured in media and venues worldwide including National Public Radio, TED, 60 Minutes, National Geographic, the New York Times, PBS, CNN, Scientific American, the British Broadcasting Company, the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress, the Sundance Film Festival, Discovery Channel, Wired, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the American Museum of Natural History.