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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...

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of the Center for Professionalism and Peer Support at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Jo Shapiro, published an invited commentary in Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. Her piece, "We Have Enough Information to Act,"...

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...