Head and neck surgeon R. Alex Harbison, MD, and his lab are exploring a novel approach to stopping cancer – starving the tumor of what it needs to defend itself from the body’s own immune system and other therapeutic interventions. Head and neck cancer researchers at WashU Medicine are enlarging their arsenal of weapons to […]
WashU Medicine researcher Lisa Davidson, PhD, and her lab are exploring ways to optimize speech perception in children with hearing loss. Strangely though, the latest technology may not offer the greatest benefit for all types of hearing loss. According to Davidson, understanding speech requires more than identifying individual vowel and consonant sounds or knowledge of […]
Vocal fold paralysis affects 120,000 people in the US – sometimes with devastating consequences to simple tasks like breathing, swallowing and speech. Professor of Otolaryngology Randal Paniello, MD, PhD, is exploring a novel stem cell treatment that may offer hope for reinnervation of the affected muscles. Vocal fold paralysis refers to the loss of neural […]
Intent on becoming a professional musician, new faculty member Katelyn Berg, PhD, explains how a guest speaker in a science elective course changed her career path and how pizza guides her national and international travel. What inspired you to choose this career path? I never intended to become an audiologist. In fact, I’d never heard […]
The 43rd annual Ogura Lectureship and 38th annual Resident Research Day were held June 27 to a capacity crowd at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. The event, hosted annually by the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at WashU Medicine, celebrates progress in research and patient care broadly in the field of otolaryngology. This […]
Patients with a condition called hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasias or HHT suffer from abnormal blood vessel formations that result in spontaneous bleeding and unsightly arteriovenous malformations known as telangiectasias or AVM. Jay Piccirillo, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at WashU Medicine, is a national leader in sclerotherapy, a treatment to eliminate the […]
Several hearing specialists from the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at WashU Medicine offered their expertise and advances in research at the annual ACIA meeting on cochlear implantation in Boston, April 30-May 3. The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACIA) is a non-profit organization created in 2010 with the goal to advocate for cochlear implantation […]
The Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University celebrated the 8th annual Spector Lectureship in the Biology of Cancer on April 2. Invited speaker Patrick Ha, MD, shared his efforts to better understand adenoid cystic carcinoma. Ha currently serves as professor and chief of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head […]
Hearing scientists in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine are busy preparing their latest data for presentation at the upcoming MidWinter Meeting of the American Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO). The association is the world’s largest organization of hearing and balance researchers, with members located in universities, medical centers, research […]
Washington University Departments of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Neuroscience co-hosted a conference featuring the latest advances in auditory research, November 18-19. The event was held at both the Eric P. Newman Education Center and the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Building on the medical school campus. The conference featured presentations by global leaders […]