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Earlier this month, Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS, FACE, hosted Massachusetts Eye and Ear's sixth biannual intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) certification course for thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Under a new name, “Endocrine Technology Course: Certifications in Intraoperative Nerve...

We are pleased to present our latest issue of Harvard Otolaryngology. Highlights include: Hidden Hearing Loss: A 10-Year Journey: A decade after the discovery of cochlear synaptopathy, scientists uncover a new potential cause Is Tongue-Tie Surgery Always Necessary: New research questions whether too...

Zheng-Yi Chen, DPhil, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Scientist in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass Eye and Ear, has been named a Principal Investigator (PI) of a $4 million, multi-PI R01 grant from the National Institutes of...

David H. Jung, MD, PhD, FACS, a neurotologic surgeon at Mass Eye and Ear, has been named the recipient of the Norman Knight Leadership Development Award. The award was endowed by Norman Knight, a self-made broadcast pioneer and media mogul who has been a thoughtful champion of Mass Eye and Ear for...

Roy Xiao, MD, MS, a PGY-3 resident in the Harvard Combined Residency Program, was recently awarded a Centralized Otolaryngology Research Effort (CORE) grant by the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF). Dr. Xiao, who completed the Medical Research Scholars...

Sharon Kujawa, PhD, has been promoted to Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and named the Sheldon and Dorothea Buckler Chair in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Mass Eye and Ear. Endowed by Sheldon and Dorothea Buckler, the Chair is awarded to a...

Ryan Bartholomew, MD, a T32 otolaryngology–head and neck resident at Harvard Medical School, was recently awarded an American Hearing Research Foundation Discovery Grant for his research on using magnetic stimulation as a way to improve hearing outcomes in patients with hearing loss. Each year, the...

Neurotology fellow Dr. Dunia Abdul-Aziz is the recipient of the 2017 Yellen Young Investigator Award. Long-time Mass. Eye and Ear Trustees, Patricia and Barry Yellen, have been giving annual gifts toward this endowed award to support the research of trainees studying hearing and hearing loss since...

Dr. Ahmad Sedaghat, of Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship Program Award for Scholars in Medicine. Launched in 1996, the Shore Fellowship Program is designed to help junior faculty at the instructor or...

Boston, Mass. — Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers have shown that mifepristone, a drug currently FDA-approved for chemical abortion, prevents the growth of vestibular schwannoma (also known as acoustic neuroma) cells. This sometimes-lethal intracranial tumor typically causes hearing loss and...