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WashU Medicine Presence at Annual Meeting for Hearing Science On the Rise
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 […]
Audiology Students Present at National Meetings
Several WashU Medicine Audiology students have submitted their research to be presented at national audiology meetings in the coming months. The scientific efforts reflect capstone projects representative of original contributions to the field of audiology and hearing science. Scientific mentors include faculty from the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at WashU Medicine. […]
Language development in children with hearing loss: Are cochlear implants the best option?
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 […]
Intraoperative measure offers hope for cochlear implant optimization
Despite numerous amazing success stories of cochlear implant (CI) recipients, it remains near impossible to predict how well any given patient will understand speech following implantation. The reasons why have been largely unexplained. The Division of Otology/Neurotology at WashU Medicine is working diligently to help answer these questions and provide implant recipients with a better […]
Celebrating the accomplishments of graduates
Graduation ceremonies for the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at WashU Medicine were held June 27 at Old Warson Country Club in St. Louis. The evening’s festivities celebrated graduating chief residents Thomas Barrett, MD, Sabina Dang, MD, Daniel Lander, MD, MSCI, Amit Walia, MD, MSCI, and Stephanie Youssef, MD. Barrett and Walia were also […]
Can hearing loss predict Alzheimer’s disease?
Surgeons and basic scientists in the Department of Otolaryngology at WashU Medicine have teamed up to demonstrate a novel connection between hearing and dementia. Recently published in the Journal of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, their study of patients undergoing cochlear implantation revealed the presence of certain proteins commonly associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) […]
WashU faculty and trainees prepare for annual meeting
Based on the number of presentations and other contributions, faculty, fellows and residents from the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University are gearing up to make quite an impact at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNSF) in Miami Beach, Florida, Sept. 28-Oct. 1. Poster Presentations Cross-Sectional Area […]
Q&A with Speech Language Pathologist Grace Cutchin
After a vocal injury inspired a career change, Speech Language Pathologist Grace Cutchin now finds satisfaction helping professional singers return to peak performance. What has your career path looked like? I have been a speech language pathologist (SLP) specializing in voice and upper airway for almost three years now. It took me a little while […]
WashU audiologists promote equity in hearing health
The Division of Adult Audiology and Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS) at Washington University in St. Louis are taking hearing health services to where they can be most easily accessed – local schools. The St. Louis region is well known for its abundant quality healthcare, but access to that care may be limiting […]