Specialty Otolaryngology
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New Artificial Intelligence Platform Diagnoses Dystonia With Near-Perfect Accuracy
Dystonia is a disabling neurological condition that can take up to 10 years to diagnose. Researchers at Mass Eye and Ear have developed an Artificial Intelligence-based deep learning platform called DystoniaNet, which is the first technology of its kind to provide an objective diagnosis of the disorder.
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Antibiotics Not Needed After Most Sinus Surgeries, Study Reports
Researchers Stacey T. Gray, MD, and Eric H. Holbrook, MD, of Mass Eye and Ear, worked with Marlene L. Durand, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass Eye and Ear, to perform a randomized, double-blind clinical trial that compared the effect of the antibiotic amoxicillin-clavulanate on endoscopic sinus surgery patients to that of a placebo.
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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.
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Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Emerges as Global Leader in Early COVID-19 Research
Clinicians and researchers at Mass Eye and Ear rapidly mobilized to conduct studies that combatted the spread of COVID-19 and mitigated its long-term symptoms. Over 25 peer-reviewed articles about the virus were published.
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Partnering to Treat Acoustic Neuroma
Massachusetts General Hospital, in partnership with Mass Eye and Ear, has created multidisciplinary relationships between surgeons, radiation oncologists, neuro-oncologists, audiologists and rehabilitation specialists for the treatment of patients with acoustic neuromas.
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Endonasal Surgery Using High-Speed Drill Puts Health Care Team at Risk of COVID-19
High-speed drilling appears to be the single greatest risk factor for potentially infectious aerosolization of new coronavirus during endonasal surgery, even when activated for only several seconds.
Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Contributors
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Alan D. Workman, MD, MTR
Resident, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Emerges as Global Leader in Early COVID-19 Research -
Albert Edge, PhD
Director, Tillotson Cell Biology Unit, Principal Investigator, Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Benjamin S. Bleier, MD
Director, Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Mass Eye and Ear, Claire and John Bertucci Chair in Otolaryngology, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Emerges as Global Leader in Early COVID-19 Research
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Eric H. Holbrook, MD
Director, Division of Rhinology, Physician-Surgeon, Mass Eye and Ear, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Antibiotics Not Needed After Most Sinus Surgeries, Study Reports
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Kristina Simonyan, MD, PhD, Dr med
Director, Laryngology Research, Mass Eye and Ear, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
New Artificial Intelligence Platform Diagnoses Dystonia With Near-Perfect Accuracy
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M. Charles Liberman, PhD
Director, Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Harold F. Schuknecht Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Vice Chair of Basic Research, Harvard Medical School
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Neil Bhattacharyya, MD, MA, FACS
Physician-Surgeon, Mass Eye and Ear, Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Sleep Disorders Tally $94.9 Billion in Health Care Costs Each Year
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Phillip A. Huyett, MD
Director of Sleep Surgery, Physician-Surgeon, Mass Eye and Ear, Clinical Instructor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Sleep Disorders Tally $94.9 Billion in Health Care Costs Each Year
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Phillip C. Song, MD
Director, Division of Laryngology, Physician-Surgeon, Mass Eye and Ear, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Emerges as Global Leader in Early COVID-19 Research
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Stacey T. Gray, MD
Director, Sinus Center, Mass Eye and Ear, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Vice Chair of Otolaryngology Education, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Antibiotics Not Needed After Most Sinus Surgeries, Study Reports
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.Related Links
