WashU Medicine Otolaryngology researcher and Associate Professor Lavinia Sheets and members of her lab recently attended the Gordon Research Conference on Mechanisms, Perception, and Restoration in the Auditory System. The five-day conference was hosted at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. July 19-24. Sheets served as a vice-chair for the event, which received financial support from […]
The 44th annual Ogura Lectureship and 39th annual Resident Research Day were held June 26 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 […]
WashU Medicine Otolaryngology is bolsteringing its research game. The group has long been a leader in the field in terms of NIH funding and numbers of publications, but they want more. That “more” is a collaborative and transparent approach that will connect basic science, and translational, applied and outcomes research efforts to drive progress and […]
WashU was host to the first international and interdisciplinary conference to explore speech communication difficulties in older adults. The Cognition, Aging and Speech Communication conference was held May 6-9 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the WashU Medicine campus. Aging affects speech communication through a combination of physical, neurological, and cognitive changes. These […]
The 9th annual Spector Lectureship in the Biology of Cancer brought together clinicians and researchers from across the medical campus to share advances in science and treatment of head and neck cancer. The day-long series of events were hosted April 15 by WashU Medicine Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and included a grand rounds […]
Physician-scientists from WashU Medicine Otolaryngology will share their expertise and advancements in research and patient care at the upcoming Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings (COSM) in Phoenix, April 22-26. The annual meeting brings together the membership of the nine COSM societies, otolaryngology residents and fellows in training, medical students, and allied health professionals for the purpose […]
Hearing researchers from WashU Medicine Otolaryngology contributed a broad spectrum of scientific findings at the annual Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, held February 7-11 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The meeting is the largest assembly of hearing scientists in the world and features basic and applied science related to hearing, deafness […]
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 […]