With COVID-19, things have clearly changed. Drs. J. Thomas Roland, Craig Buchman, and Jacques Herzog collaborate on a national level with various research endeavors and proposed a joint NYU – Wash U journal club. A joint journal club was an incredible opportunity to get opinions and new insights from leaders in our field. From NYU […]
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington University School of Medicine required all principal investigators and directors of research groups to put into place research contingency plans by March 23. The key feature of the research contingency plan was to define the “essential” and “important” functions of the lab and to build a contingency plan […]
The ambulatory practice of otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine had an abrupt change on March 23, when the majority of our upcoming scheduled patients were cancelled. Safety of the patients, staff and community was paramount given the advancing threat of COVID-19. Everyone involved in clinical care was instrumental in making this happen. We moved from seeing […]
On March 18, 2020, the Dean of Washington University School of Medicine notified all departments that they should defer all office visits and elective procedures as of March 23, due to concerns about COVID-19. “Elective” was defined as meaning that the patient’s encounter could be postponed at least eight weeks without substantial risk of harm […]
People respond to a crisis in a variety of ways, responses that run the gamut of physical, behavioral, emotional and spiritual reactions. Fortunately, some people respond by looking for innovative ways to help others. Tyler Bertroche, MD, a chief resident in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of those […]
What is your current title, and how would you describe your role in the department? I am the Team Lead for Adult Audiology at CAM, CID, and West County. I train new employees and work with current employees on changes to work duties and work flow. I am the “catch all” position. I act as […]
Some of the biggest medical advances of the last few decades have been in diagnostic imaging, but how those images are viewed is pretty much the same as it was in 1950 – visual data displayed on a 2D flat screen. Augmented reality (AR), technology that superimposes digital information onto the physical world, has the […]
For more than 30 years, Mark Warchol, PhD, been interested in the development and repair of sensory hair cells of the auditory and vestibular systems, crucial to hearing and balance. That search has led the Warchol lab to identify an unlikely contributor to these processes – scavenger cells known to clean up debris from cell […]
You may think supervisors simply hire and fire, train new employees, and generally, well, just supervise. But they do so much more. They are the face of each functional unit; the fill-in for missing staff members; the leader responsible for progress and productivity; and, oh yeah, innovator, nurturer, and cheerleader. Quite simply, they are the […]
Faculty and residents from the departments of Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery work closely together on many patient cases and research to advance patient care, so it’s no surprise that they would find themselves presenting at the same national meetings. Most recently, faculty and residents from both departments demonstrated their expertise in skull base surgery at the […]