WashU
friends & alums reception
P
lease jo
in us for cocktails and small plates at our reception for alumni and friends at the upcoming Academy meeting in New Orleans.
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What are our graduates doing now?
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Residency satisfaction on Doximity
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If you're a recent alum (10 years) or current resident and haven't yet taken Doximity's residency survey, it's not too late. As long as you're a member of Doximity, and you haven't taken the survey already, you can rate our program
here»
If you're not a member of Doximity, be sure to
register
so you can rate our program in the future.
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Welcome to our new faculty!
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Welcome to our newest
research scholars
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Head & neck cancer survivors find strength together
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Making life easier and recovery quicker for head and neck cancer patients
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Adult audiology
We set the national standards for patient care.
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What are the signs and symptoms of oral cancer?
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Our Division Chief for Head & Neck Surgery
Dr. Jose Zevallos
tells
US News & World Report
what to look for and the importance of early detection.
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New ARO leadership
Dr. Keiko Hirose
is president of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), the world's largest organization of hearing and balance researchers.
Read more
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After six months of gathering ideas, writing, taking pictures and designing, we have launched the department's
brand new website
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More updates are still in the works, so if you have any suggestions, corrections or general feedback, please share
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Less than a month into his faculty position here,
Sid Puram, MD, PhD
, has been awarded his K08 from NCI (National Cancer Institute) to study programs that drive head and neck cancer invasion and metastasis. Dr. Puram's K08 is a mentored clinical scientist research career development award totaling $1.14 million.
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Hormones, Alzheimer's and hearing loss
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The Rutherford Lab is studying what makes some people more susceptible to hearing loss, from gender to aging, hoping it leads to early diagnosis for dementia and therapies to prevent neurodegenerative hearing loss.
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Ogura Lectureship and Resident Research Day
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Alumnus
Dr.
Eric Genden
returned to deliver two outstanding presentations at our annual Ogura Lectureship and Resident Research Day. At the graduation program that evening,
Dr. Jay Piccirillo
presented the 2019 Michael Paparella Research Awards to four residents for their outstanding presentations, and residents Colin Chen, MD, and Jennifer Gross, MD, (below, right) reflected on their WashU experience.
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Graduating residents Jennifer Gross, MD, Neel Bhatt, MD, Heidi L'Esperance, MD, Pete Vila, MD, MSPH, and Collin Chen, MD, pause outside the med school.
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Collin Chen, MD, and Jennifer Gross, MD, share fond memories of their Washington University experience at the graduation dinner.
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1st Place:
The Auditory Nerve Overlapped Waveform (ANOW)
Can Detect Developing Endolymphatic Hydrops
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2nd Place:
Impact of Tobacco Use on the Immunogenomic Profile
of HPV-related Oropharynx Cancer
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1st Place:
Impact of Olfactory Training on Post-Viral
Olfactory Dysfunction
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2nd Place:
Neel Bhatt, MD
Comparison of Surgical Treatments for Zenker's Diverticulum: A Systematic Review
and Network Meta-Analysis
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At the World Congress for Endoscopic Ear Surgery’s gala event,
Dr. Cameron Wick
was awarded “Best Video Presentation of the Conference” for his presentation on endoscopic stapes surgery.
Dr. Wick also attended Vestibular Schwannoma 2019 held at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where he moderated an oral presentations section and gave two research presentations.
Cameron Wick, MD, (right) celebrates with his fellowship mentors (left to right) Walter Kutz, MD, and Brandon Isaacson, MD, both from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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At last month’s Illumination Gala, a record
$4.3 million
was raised for cancer research. Cancer survivors and friends of our department donated $1 million to our department with a specific challenge to all of us: work hard to make head and neck cancer care treatment as good as you possibly can
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Hear from survivors
on why they are giving back.
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Share your news!
If you are an alumnus and have an award, presentation, or other news that you think is noteworthy, or if you have
feedback on this newsletter,
please send it to us
at
ENTnews@wustl.edu
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We'd love to hear from you.
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Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of
Medicine
Improve Patients' Lives by Leading Our Advancing Field
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