Posts by Stacey T. Gray, MD
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Antibiotics Not Needed After Most Sinus Surgeries, Study Reports
Researchers Stacey T. Gray, MD, and Eric H. Holbrook, MD, of Mass Eye and Ear, worked with Marlene L. Durand, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass Eye and Ear, to perform a randomized, double-blind clinical trial that compared the effect of the antibiotic amoxicillin-clavulanate on endoscopic sinus surgery patients to that of a placebo.
Biography
Dr. Stacey Gray is an ear, nose, and throat doctor with fellowship training in rhinology and endoscopic sinonasal and skull base surgery. Her clinical interests include diseases of the nose and sinuses and endoscopic approaches to the skull base.
Dr. Gray, alongside Dr. Eric Holbrook, developed the Sinus Center at Mass Eye and Ear with the goal to synthesize comprehensive management for patients presenting with complex chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Each year, the Sinus Center treats more than 10,000 patients.
Dr. Gray has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings to lecture on endoscopic management of sinonasal and skull base pathology as well as surgical education and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in the field. She serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy, the Instructional Course Advisory Committee for the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and as Chair of the Membership Committee of the American Rhinologic Society.
In 2015, she was the recipient of the Harvard Medical School Young Mentor Award for her contributions to teaching and education.
Mass Eye and Ear/Mass General Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear/Massachusetts General Hospital combines the expertise of highly specialized ear, nose, and throat physicians, audiologists, speech-language pathologists and auxiliary health care professionals to provide care for patients with problems affecting the ear, nose, throat, head and neck areas. The department, which is led by Chief and Chair Mark A. Varvares, MD, FACS, is one of the largest otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (OHNS) departments in the country, with more than 70 physicians staffed at 15 locations in the greater Boston area.
