Posts by Phillip A. Huyett, MD
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Sleep Disorders Tally $94.9 Billion in Health Care Costs Each Year
Mass Eye and Ear researchers Neil Bhattacharyya, MD, MA, FACS, and Phillip Huyett, MD, found that sleep disorders are associated with significantly higher rates of health care utilization, conservatively placing an additional $94.9 billion in costs each year to the United States health care system.
Biography
Phillip A. Huyett, MD is a board-certified otolaryngologist with specialized training in sleep medicine and surgery. His primary clinical interest lies in providing comprehensive care to patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and snoring. His training consists of a residency in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery followed by fellowship training in sleep medicine, which incorporated advanced surgical interventions for OSA.
Dr. Huyett’s major research interests fall broadly into three categories:
- The integration of surgical and non-surgical strategies for optimizing existing therapies for OSA
- Strategies to improve the perioperative safety of patients with OSA
- Phenotyping/endotyping patients with OSA using polysomnographic and endoscopic predictors for proper surgical and non-surgical therapy selection, including hypoglossal nerve stimulation
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.
