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Earlier this month, otologists from around the globe gathered in Boston for the 2019 International Otopathology Society meeting. Sponsored in part by the NIDCD National Temporal Bone, Hearing, and Balance Pathology Resource Registry at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, members of the society meet in...

Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School gathered in the Meltzer Auditorium at Massachusetts Eye and Ear on Friday, June 21, to celebrate the 2019 graduating class of residents and fellows. Five chief residents and 11 clinical fellows...

The Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear has been awarded an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Back to Bedside grant. The Back to Bedside initiative is designed to empower residents and fellows to...

Last week, Harvard Otolaryngology Chief Resident Alessandra Colaianni, MD, published a perspective essay in the New England Journal of Medicine. This piece, titled Fun, shares Dr. Colaianni’s experience in the operating room throughout her years of training. She explores a question — and answer —...

Last week, Harvard Medical School Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Division at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Dr. Gregory Randolph, alongside Dr. Peter Angelos of the University of Chicago and Dr. Whitney Liddy of Northwestern University, hosted the fourth...

The Research and Education Foundation of the American Head and Neck Society has announced that this year's recipient of the Chris O'Brien Traveling Fellowship is our very own, Dr. Kevin Emerick. The purpose of this fellowship is to encourage international exchange of information concerning surgical...

Dr. Mark Shrime has been awarded the 2018 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Award for Humanism in Medicine by the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. This award recognizes members committed to practicing otolaryngology with compassionate, patient-centered care. For Dr. Shrime, his...

Dr. Ravindra Uppaluri, Chief of Otolaryngology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, has been appointed the inaugural Distinguished Chair in Otolaryngology at BWH. A leader in his field, Dr. Uppaluri has dedicated his career to the...

The proteins that form the permeation pathway of mechanosensory transduction channels in inner ear hair cells have not been definitively identified. Genetic, anatomical, and physiological evidence support a role for sensor protein, transmembrane channel-like protein (TMC) 1, in hair cell sensory...

Boston, Mass. — Bacteria are present in just about every breath of air we take in. How the airway protects itself from infection from these bacteria has largely remained a mystery — until now. When bacteria are inhaled, exosomes, or tiny fluid-filled sacs, are immediately secreted from cells that...