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 […]
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 […]