Author: Brian Faddis

Peter Vila Receives Holt Leadership Award

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The award, presented by the AAO-HNS since 2002, recognizes the current resident or fellow that best exemplifies the attributes of a young leader.

Innovative Sleep Surgery to Treat Apnea

In order to provide the best patient care possible, Assistant Professor Dr. Ryan S. Jackson is known to embrace innovation. For example, he is one of the top 10 busiest otolaryngology surgeons in the country using the da Vinci robotic system that facilitates complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach. Dr. Jackson is now embracing another form […]

Revealing the intricacies of inner ear drug delivery

If you wake up one morning with sudden deafness, experience dizziness as a result of Meniere’s disease, or if you have cochlear implant surgery, your doctor may choose to treat your ear with a locally applied drug. One limitation of this new approach is that most of the drugs in use have been repurposed from […]

Lip reading and brain training studies to improve cognition

The Tye-Murray laboratory studies hearing loss and speech recognition. Half of the lab’s projects center upon understanding the fundamental processes that allow for successful lipreading because being able to read lips greatly enhances a patient’s ability to engage successfully in conversation. The second half centers upon developing rehabilitation strategies that develop listening abilities in both […]

Throat cancers: unraveling the links between HPV and smoking

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Over the last two decades, there has been a rapidly rising proportion of cancers of the throat linked to human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S. Cancers of the throat, or oropharyngeal cancer, caused by HPV have increased by an alarming 225% over the last 20 years.  Why smokers’ outcomes […]

Learning how brains process speech

Although our ears are important for hearing, it is our brain that makes sense of what we hear. How our brains process speech is a central theme in the research of Jonathan Peelle, PhD. In research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Peelle Lab uses behavioral testing and brain imaging to study […]