Specialty Otolaryngology
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Featured
A Line of Defense Hidden Inside the Nose
Scientists had long tried to understand why colder temperatures correlate with colds, flus and other upper respiratory viruses. The discovery of an innate immune response at the front of the nose has provided a missing link to the phenomenon.
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New Biomarker for Cochlear Nerve Degeneration Proposed
Stéphane F. Maison, AuD, PhD, and colleagues used high-pass filtering to isolate a neural spiking component during electrocochleography that correlates with performance on difficult word recognition tasks, used as a proxy for cochlear nerve degeneration.
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DystoniaBoTXNet: Novel AI Model Predicts Botulinum Toxin Efficacy for Individual Patients With Isolated Dystonia
Kristina Simonyan, MD, PhD, Dr med, and colleagues have developed and tested a convolutional neural network, DystoniaBoTXNet, that uses raw structural brain MRI data to provide an objective, accurate and fast prediction of whether botulinum toxin will benefit an individual patient with isolated focal dystonia.
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Artificial Intelligence Enters the Ear
Surgeons at Mass Eye and Ear have engineered an artificial intelligence (AI) device that could diagnose a middle ear infection more accurately than a clinician.
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Cochlear Motion Across the Reticular Lamina Implies It Is Not a Stiff Plate
Sunil Puria, PhD, and Nam Hyun Cho, PhD, determined in animal model that the reticular lamina within the organ of Corti does not move as a stiff plate near the outer hair cells in the ear but rather might bend or stretch, a finding that has implications for improving understanding of cochlear amplification.
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Vocal Cord Paralysis Commonly Asymptomatic in Patients With Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Invasion by Thyroid Cancer
Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS, FACE, and colleagues found that only 39% of patients with recurrent laryngeal nerve invasion by thyroid carcinoma had preoperative voice complaints, and 44% of those who underwent preoperative laryngoscopy had vocal cord paralysis.
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
Recent Article
Discovery of New Molecular Player May Lead to Pathway for Hearing Loss Reversal
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Benjamin S. Bleier, MD, FACS
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
A Line of Defense Hidden Inside the Nose
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Dunia E. Abdul-Aziz, MD
Physician and Surgeon, Mass Eye and Ear, Instructor, Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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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, Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
DystoniaBoTXNet: Novel AI Model Predicts Botulinum Toxin Efficacy for Individual Patients With Isolated Dystonia
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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.
