We recently sat down with Staff Scientist Tim Holden to celebrate his 35-year service to the department and to find out how an engineer found his way to a fledgling cochlear implant program. According to Cochlear Implant Program Director Jill Firszt, PhD, Tim has had a significant impact on the WUSM CI program for more […]
The Department of Otolaryngology is one of the top five recipients of National Institutes of Health funding for otolaryngology research in the U.S., making it one of the leaders in the field. The department currently has 176 open research projects, according to Sara Kukuljan, manager of the division of clinical research. These include: clinical and […]
What do you do at WashU? I am a research engineer in the Department of Otolaryngology. I provide technical support and programming, and I design new equipment so the laboratories are able to achieve their goals. What attracted you to otolaryngology research? What do you like about what you do? By chance, I met Dr. […]
What do you do at WashU? I am the research lab supervisor in Dr. Alec Salt’s lab and conduct research studies on pharmacokinetics (movements of drugs) in the inner ear. We focus on understanding how quickly a drug spreads inside the ear and the therapeutic levels needed to treat ear disorders. In addition to local […]
Jill Firszt, PhD Title: “Cochlear Implantation in Children with Asymmetric Hearing Loss or Single-Sided Deafness Clinical Trial” What it will study: This clinical trial is designed as a longitudinal, prospective, two-phase, multi-center clinical trial to address deficits in children who have either asymmetric hearing loss or single-sided deafness. The clinical trial will assess cochlear implantation […]
Cochlear implants should be recommended for more adults with hearing loss
Laura Holden, AuD, is a clinical audiologist and research scientist that has worked in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University for 34 years, most of that time with cochlear implant patients. What caused you to choose the field of speech and hearing? I was interested in the health care profession but really didn’t know […]
Dorina Kallogjeri, MD, MPH, is the research statistician behind the Clinical Outcomes Research Office, assisting our department’s investigators on everything from framing their research to evaluating results. Dr. Kallogjeri spent some time with us reflecting on what brought her to Washington University and what she loves about her job What do you enjoy most about […]
How did you end up at CID/Washington University? In my junior year at the University of Michigan I took a class that changed my life. It was taught by William Stebbins, a behavioral psychologist who was studying the sensory behavior of animals using operant conditioning behavioral techniques. Dr. Stebbins invited me to join his lab […]
Jeff Lichtenhan, PhD, likes to know where and how things originate. That includes things like physiological responses of the auditory system – subtle sound or electrical signals that indicate auditory activity. Some of these signals have been used for decades to help diagnose hearing disorders, but in most cases we don’t fully understand their biological […]