Faculty
Matthew L. Rohlfing, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-7509
Lauren Roland, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-7509
Dr. Roland is a specialist in rhinology and anterior skull base disease, including chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps, fungal sinusitis, nasal obstruction, and CSF leaks.
Mark A. Rutherford, PhD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
Electrical and chemical signaling across membranes, neural temporal code, spike generation, molecular anatomy of synapses, membrane excitability disorders, auditory and vestibular systems, synaptic electrophysiology, sensory hair cells, spiral ganglion neurons, ribbon synapses, ion channel organization and function, nano-scale microscopy, Ca2+ and voltage imaging, mutational analysis, computational modeling, cochlear implants, structure-function relationships, synaptic development and heterogeneity, genetics of hearing and deafness, optogenetics, mitochondria, network and synaptic plasticity, efferent neuromodulation of sensory processing, prevention of hearing loss.
John S. Schneider, MD, MA, FACS
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
Chief, Division of Rhinology
- Phone: 314-362-7509
Lavinia Sheets, PhD
Associate Professor
Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
- Email: sheetsl@wustl.edu
Hair cells are the sensory receptors of sound, motion, and spatial orientation. Exposure to excessively loud noise or certain drugs can permanently damage hair cells and their connections to nerve fibers. My lab investigates the cellular mechanisms of noise-induced and chemical hair-cell damage using zebrafish as a model for human hearing and deafness.
Emily A. Spataro, MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
Castle Connolly Rising Star
- Phone: 314-996-3880
Emily Spataro, MD, specializes in rhinoplasties for both functional and cosmetic purposes, facial Mohs reconstructions, facial trauma, cosmetic surgeries and procedures such as Botox, fillers, brow lifts, eyelid surgeries, facelifts/necklifts, laser and chemical peels for skin resurfacing.
Richard Benjamin Speaker, MBBCh
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
- Phone: 314-454-6162
Rosalie M. Uchanski, PhD
Associate Professor
Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
Research Interests: Speech perception by hearing-impaired listeners, especially cochlear implant users; perception of talker-specific properties of speech by cochlear implant users, perception of suprasegmental speech characteristics and its relation to learning words; psychoacoustic abilities of cochlear implant users and of persons with unilateral hearing loss.
Benjamin Wahle, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-7509
Dr. Wahle specializes in head and neck surgical oncology, head and neck reconstructive surgery, microvascular reconstructive surgery/free tissue transfer, and transoral robotic surgery.