Posts by Steven D. Rauch, MD
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Prior Surgery No Barrier to Cochlear Implantation for Ménière's Disease
Steven D. Rauch, MD, and colleagues at Mass Eye and Ear found word recognition scores improve after cochlear implantation for deafness caused by Ménière's disease regardless of age at implantation and whether patients received previous medical or surgical Ménière's treatment.
Biography
With more than 30 years of experience in otolaryngology, Dr. Steven Rauch specializes in otology, which is the diagnosis, medical, and surgical management of hearing and balance disorders.
Dr. Rauch’s leadership and expertise in balance disorders led to the formation of a new Vestibular Division at Massachusetts Eye and Ear in 2014, with Dr. Rauch serving as director. The division brings together specialists from both otolaryngology and neurology to provide highly specialized clinical care and research initiatives with the goal of improving the lives of patients with vestibular and balance disorders.
An active participant in the otolaryngology and research communities, Dr. Rauch has served as a member of the Board of Scientific Councilors of the NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and as President of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. He is also a former Chair of the Research Advisory Board of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. He is a member of the American Otological Society and the American Neurotological Society. He sits on numerous grant review, editorial, and advisory boards here in the US and internationally.
Dr. Rauch’s clinical interests include both hearing and balance disorders. He focuses his research efforts on combined disorders of hearing and balance, particularly Ménière’s disease, autoimmune inner ear disease, sudden deafness, and migraine.
Dr. Rauch has also cultivated an interest in performing arts medicine. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Liberal Arts Department at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches a course on Health and Wellness for undergraduate music students.
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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.
