Posts by Daniel B. Polley, PhD
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Automated Tool Developed at Mass Eye and Ear Distinguishes Individuals With Tinnitus From Fraudulent Claims
Daniel B. Polley, PhD, and colleagues have developed an automated, quantitative system for assessing tinnitus and identifying false claims of the condition through self-directed, computerized testing that asks subjects to characterize the perceptual qualities of their tinnitus.
Biography
Daniel B. Polley, PhD, holds the Amelia Peabody Chair in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and is director of the Lauer Tinnitus Research Center at Mass Eye and Ear. Dr. Polley is a 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.
