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#MatchDay2025 Join us in welcoming our five newest members to the WashU ENT Family! Clinical & Research Residents: 🔹 Ricky Chae @UMassChan 🔹 Jeffrey Graves @MayoClinicENT 🔹 Shivani Ramolia @rutgershealth 🔹 Pablo Llerena @rutgershealth 🔹 Lauren Mueller @Tulane

Honored to present our @WashUMedENT research and insights on two panels—‘Hearing Preservation’ and ‘Mapping & Anatomy-Based Fitting’—at @espci this past week in Hannover, Germany. Grateful to share and learn from leaders in the field!

The Summer Research Symposium was a wonderful opportunity for our TL1 trainees to gather and showcase their work. A big thank you to TL1 Program Director @PiccirilloJay, our dedicated mentors, and our hardworking trainees from @WashU, @Mizzou, @SLU_Official, @UHSPedu, & @UMKC!

Rosalie Uchanski, PhD and Lisa Davidson, PhD presented their poster on “Performance of Recipients of Cochlear Implants in Adolescence” at the 2025 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis. Co-authors include Ann E. Geers, PhD and Brent Spehar, PhD. #WashU #cochlearimplants

After 25 years of service, David Molter, MD, has retired. Dr. Molter has also been awarded the title, Professor Emeritus of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. Congratulations Dr. Molter!

Dr. P, Dr. Kallogjeri, research staff, and trainees at Outcomes Summer Retreat @WashUMedENT

With Andrew Peterson at Resident Graduation Dinner. Andrew won First Place for Clinical Presentation at our Ogura Resident Research Day! @WashUMedENT @andrewpete_

Bharat Panuganti, MD, has received a $15,000 ALA Seymour Cohen, MD, Research Grant for his study on the safety and efficacy of sustained release corticosteroid triamcinolone in the rat airway.

Great news! @SidPuram, has been selected as the Dr. Joseph B. Kimbrough Chair for Maxillofacial Surgery and Prosthodontics in the WashU Medicine Department of Otolaryngology for teaching and healing. Congratulations Dr. Puram!

Great day with Al Merati - Ogura lecturer @amerati @WashUMedENT

The latest issue of WashU's Department of Otolaryngology's "Under the Scope" newsletter is now available, featuring Shannon Lefler, AuD, senior research clinical coordinator and lecturer in PACS. oto.wustl.edu/qa-with-clinic… @WashUMedENT

As our chief residents prepare for graduation on June 27, they share their post-graduation plans, reflect on highlights of their training, and offer parting words of advice for their junior colleagues. Read more: oto.wustl.edu/next-steps-for…

Resident Amrita Hari-Raj MD, MSCI and facial plastic surgeon John Chi, MD, MPHS joined @mmfc_missions on a cleft lip and palate surgical mission to Guatemala City, Guatemala. Great work team!

The 43rd Annual Ogura Lectureship and Resident Research Day will be held Friday, June 27 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC) on the medical school campus, 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. @amerati @WashUMedENT

R. Alex Harbison, MD, has received a K08 award from the NIH for his study, “Polyamine blockade and anti-tumor immunity in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.” The award provides a total of $680,000 for four years of support. Excellent work, Dr. Harbison!

It was an immense privilege to take part in my 1st medical mission trip to Guatemala City thru Medical Missions for Children. I was honored to be on a team that completed 30+ cleft & craniofacial surgeries during the week! @WashUMedENT

Over the weekend, the ENT faculty and their families came together to serve at the St. Louis Area Foodbank. From packing and peeling onions to sharing laughs, it was a powerful reminder that teamwork goes beyond the OR.

Congratulations to Nyssa Farrell, MD, on her new publication in Olfaction and Taste! Her clinical trial explores Stellate Ganglion Block as a treatment for COVID-19–induced parosmia. Innovative work pushing the boundaries of smell recovery research! jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao…

Please join us in congratulating @SidPuram, on his promotion to Professor of Otolaryngology and Genetics.

Great work to our faculty on the recent published article: Alzheimer's Disease-Related Analytes Amyloid-β and Tau in Perilymph: Correlation with Patient Age and Cognitive Score …-hnsfjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100…

Residents in @WashUNeurosurg and the ENT dept. along with visiting residents from across the Midwest – recently practiced open and endoscopic surgical approaches to the anterior skull base in the Multidisciplinary Surgical Simulation Lab. Read more: oto.wustl.edu/washu-medicine…