Search

Members of the Remenschneider Lab at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, including Harvard Otolaryngology Lecturer Aaron Remenschneider, MD, MPH, Harvard Neurotology Fellow Elliott Kozin, MD, and PhD student Nicole Black have created PionEar, a tiny bio-inspired, 3D-printed ear tube...

We are pleased to present the Winter 2018 Issue of The Registry, which is the semi-annual newsletter of the NIDCD National Temporal Bone, Hearing and Balance Pathology Resource Registry at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School. Inside you will find: Featured research on the impact of...

Precision medicine involves using genetic information specific to a patient’s tumor to choose the most efficacious therapy for that individual. Identifying mechanisms that make certain tumors responsive to a particular drug, but not others, known as biomarker discovery, is vital to precision...

Fourth-year Harvard Otolaryngology resident Alessandra Colaianni, MD, recently published an editorial in the New York Times. This article shares her experience with a patient who had a rare disorder known as toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome. This condition is a severe skin reaction, most often...

Research led by Hideko Heidi Nakajima, MD, PhD, featuring members of the Nakajima Ear Mechanics Lab Stefan Raufer, PhD, and John J. Guinan, PhD, reveals newly discovered mechanics in human hearing. Published June 24 in PNAS, the study calls into question the classic view that cochlear mechanics are...

New study suggests ear infections and conditions that cause chronic conductive hearing loss may lead to nerve degeneration when left untreated. Boston, Mass. — Chronic conductive hearing loss, which can result from middle-ear infections, has been linked to speech recognition deficits, according to...

Faculty from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School had an excellent representation in New Orleans, Louisiana at the 123rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) earlier this month. The annual gathering of...

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, who is also Chief of the Division of Otolaryngology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), received a $4.3 million U01 Cancer Moonshot grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the...

Mark A. Varvares, MD, FACS, has been appointed Chief of the Departments of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at Mass Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and as Chair of OHNS at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Varvares, a head and neck cancer surgeon and the John W...

Matthew G. Crowson, MD, an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and an ENT surgeon in the Otology and Neurotology Division at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently appointed a Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Research Training (BIRT) Fellow at Harvard...