…and congrats to Patrick Tassone MD who will represent us well on the editorial review board!

Spectacular presentations by MizzouENT residents during our annual #research day. I see some great publications forthcoming! #ENTresearch #otolaryngology #entsurgery

Congratulations 🎉to our graduates! To our departing physicians—Drs. Austin Baker, Ed Oudin, and Juan Carlos Yanez-Siller— and our otology fellow Dr. Rohan Patel: best wishes and keep in touch! Thank you for your contributions! #ResidENTs #WeAreOTO #IAmOTO #GME

Residency night not only celebrates our grads, but also the accomplishments of our current #residENTs for their research and training exam scores. Also, the Jerry Templer, MD award—given to a resident for exemplary leadership/professionalism—went to Dr. Bonnie Chen. 👏#IAmOTO

#Airway course! Our senior residents led our more junior residents through the management of the airway. #Simulation with artificial heads and with pig larynges were used to practice skills such as #laryngoscopy and #cricothyroidotomy.

Our residents had an incredible experience at the Midwest Otolaryngology Simulation Training (#MOST2024) in the new ENT sim lab at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. They honed skills like #epistaxis management, PET placement, and emergent #cricothyrotomy. WashU.Ent

Previous free tissue transfer may not provide reassurance after irradiation. See the latest publication by Patrick Tassone MD and colleagues. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39047621/

Recent manuscript co-authored by Dr. Teresa Lever: Neural landscape is associated with functional outcomes in irradiated patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell car… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39083586/

Should we advocate for #Neck #dissections over XRT for patients with #supraglottic SCC and cN0 neck? A retrospective database study suggests patients who underwent adjuvant #radiation had worse overall survival. Patrick Tassone MD Michael Topf MD, MSCI

Heading to the Missouri State Fair ? Stop by Mizzou Central (Building 16) on Saturday, Aug 10 for free head and neck cancer screenings by MizzouENT! See you there! MU Health Care #headneckcancer

"Older patients with more comorbidities and greater travel distance may be at higher risk for non-adherence. Treatment at an academic cancer center is associated with non-adherence..." What do we need to do to improve? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39116722/ Patrick Tassone MD Michael Topf MD, MSCI

#PhysicalTherapy improves the voice in patients with muscle tension #dysphonia (#MTD)! Our own Dr. Mark Gilbert contributes to the study, "Physical Therapy for Muscle Tension Dysphonia with Cervicalgia." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… #ENTresearch #Laryngology VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

Great work, Dr. Lever!

At the Practical Anatomy and Surgical Education (PASE) lab in St Louis, the title page of Vesalius’s book “On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books” (1543) graces the wall. Great weekend of learning and teaching at the Resident Update in Rhinology.

🚨 Faculty Promotion Alert! 🚨 As of Sept 1, 2024: 🎓 Dr. Eliav GovAri → Professor 🎓 Dr. Teresa Lever → Professor 🎓 Dr. Tabitha Galloway → Associate Professor Huge congrats to these outstanding leaders in Otolaryngology for their national recognition and achievements! 👏🎉

"Black, Am.Indian/AlaskaNative, and Hispanic patients still experienced an elevated disease-specific mortality risk, suggesting healthcare disparities...or...tumor biology." Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cutaneous Melanoma of the H... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to MU authors—as well as our own Dr. Teresa Lever—for their newest publication. The researchers create a rat model to simulate neurodegeneration of the hypoglossal nerve, similar to what #ALS patients might experience. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39296960/