Advanced Otology » Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery » College of Medicine

Overview:

The Advanced Otology Fellowship provides training in the diagnosis and management of complex middle and inner ear disorders. The clinical education will focus on middle ear diseases, implantable devices for hearing loss, acute and chronic vestibular disorders. Our training better prepares an otolaryngology residency graduate to perform surgery on extensive cholesteatomas, offer stapes or cochlear implant surgery, and counsel patients with significant vestibular disorders. The Advanced Otology fellow will gain more hands-on experience with larger number of patient volume in order to achieve increased clinical competence in the medical management and surgical techniques of complex ear disorders. The fellow will learn to treat hearing and balance disorders in the setting of significant co-morbid conditions such as speech and developmental delay, learning disabilities, sinonasal pathology, autoimmune/inflammatory disease, neurodegenerative disorders, migraine, and traumatic brain injury. The fellowship emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary care by collaborating with audiologists, speech-language pathologists, neurologists, neuroradiologists, and neurosurgeons.

Goals of the Advanced Otology fellowship:

Increase clinical competence in the diagnosis and management of complex hearing and balance disorders
Gain experience in addressing co-morbid conditions and providing multidisciplinary care