Posts by Blake C. Alkire, MD, MPH
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Global Surgery: Reaching the Unreachable
Mass Eye and Ear leaders in Global Surgery launched a new program to help address the global surgical workforce crisis.
Biography
Dr. Blake Alkire is a general otolaryngologist at Mass Eye and Ear, Longwood, who specializes in comprehensive adult and pediatric otolaryngology and sinus disease. Dr. Alkire provides care to adult and pediatric patients for all ear, nose, and throat conditions. His clinical interests include acute and chronic sinusitis, nasal obstruction, hearing loss, and voice disorders.
Given his interests in global health initiatives, he also works with the Program in Global Surgery at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include developing economic models to understand the costs and benefits of expanding surgical capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
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.
