Posts by Faisal Karmali, PhD
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Implanted Vestibular Prosthesis Improves Spatial Orientation in Animals with Severe Vestibular Damage
Faisal Karmali, PhD, Richard F. Lewis, MD, and colleagues at Mass Eye and Ear showed in monkeys that a semicircular canal implant improved head orientation after severe vestibular damage, suggesting implants mimicking canal function can improve spatial orientation and balance in patients with vestibular hypofunction.
Biography
Faisal Karmali, PhD, is co-director of the Jenks Vestibular Physiology Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an assistant professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
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.
