Ceremony highlights achievements of graduating residents and fellows

photo of graduating ENT residents

Graduation ceremonies for the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine were held June 21 at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis. The evening’s festivities celebrated graduating chief residents Katherine Chang, MD, Aisling Last, MD, Sampat Sindhar, MD, MSCI, Ben Wahle, MD, and Nneoma Wamkpah, MD, MSCI. Wahle and Wamkpah were also […]

Breadth of ENT research a highlight of Ogura Lectureship

photo of Charles Limb, MD, delivering the 2024 Ogura Lecture

The 42nd annual Ogura Lectureship and 37th annual Resident Research Day were held June 21 to a capacity crowd at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the medical school campus of Washington University. This year’s invited guest speaker was noted neurotologist Charles Limb, MD, professor and chief, Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base […]

Spector Lecture highlights leadership in academic medicine

The Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University celebrated the 6th annual Spector Lectureship in the Biology of Cancer on April 24. Invited speaker Mark Varvares, MD, shared his thoughts on the importance of leadership in academic medicine. Varvares currently serves as the John W. Merriam/William W. Montgomery Professor and chair of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery […]

Haynes delivers 2023 Senturia Lecture

photo of Haynes with neurotologists

The Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University celebrated the 43rd annual Senturia Lectureship on Nov. 1, 2023. The invited guest speaker was David Haynes, MD, professor and chief of the Division of Otology & Neurotology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Haynes discussed his views on Leadership and Mentorship In Building a Practice. According to Division […]

Town Hall highlights growth, productivity and success

photo of Buchman speaking at Town Hall event

Last month, the Department of Otolaryngology held its annual Town Hall where Lindburg Professor and Chair Craig Buchman, MD, shared highlights of department growth, success, and plans for the future. The department recognized significant growth in the clinical mission as evidenced by the increase in outpatient visits, surgical cases, clinical staff and physicians. Faculty recruitment […]

Ogura Lectureship highlights advances in ENT

The 41st annual Ogura Lectureship and 36th annual Resident Research Day were held June 23 to a capacity crowd at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the medical school campus of Washington University. The invited guest speaker was Tessa Hadlock, MD, Fazzalari-Grousbeck Endowed Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School, and Director […]

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Town Hall celebrates growth, innovation and service

photo of Buchman speaking at Town Hall event

The Department of Otolaryngology held its annual Town Hall last month where Lindburg Professor and Chair Craig Buchman, MD, shared his annual review of department activities and plans for the future. Growth in the clinical space and expanded research efforts were highlighted as some of the many avenues to success of the department’s mission to […]

Lenarz to give Senturia lecture

Thomas Lenarz, MD, PhD, will give the 2022 annual Senturia Lectureship to the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine. The title of his presentation will be, Hearing4All: functional restoration of hearing using auditory devices. Lenarz studied medicine and biochemistry at universities in London and Tübingen, Erlangen, and Heidelberg, Germany,  from 1975 until […]

ENT re-launches social committee

In August, the department re-launched its social committee. Covid-19 had squelched the committee’s events and planning, but with a renewed vigor, a group of volunteers attended a kick-off meeting on Aug. 19 and has been meeting regularly to plan activities for the department.  The first event in the works will be the department holiday/winter party. They are presently exploring venues and dates, […]