The Voice, Airway & Swallow Center has novel technology for head and neck cancer patients and is working with the UPMC Head & Neck Cancer Survivorship Clinic and speech language […]
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The Dry Eye Clinic at the UPMC Vision Institute – which opened in November 2023 – is led by Sabrina Mukhtar, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology. When Dr. Mukhtar […]
Madalyn Trainer is only weeks into her new position as a registered nurse in the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Emergency Department. She is also still recovering from preprosthetic implant surgery. […]
Two new faculty members are collaborating on the structural biology and neurobiology of retinal interconnections. Bryan Jones, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, and Rebecca Pfeiffer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, came […]
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Charles C. Cohen (“Chuck”), a founding member of the Eye & Ear Foundation Board, passed away on August 27, 2025, following a brief illness. Chuck, along with Al Muse and […]
Tetiana Pylypenko, 74, has been helped immeasurably by the Department of Ophthalmology Patient Navigator Dana McGinnis-Thomas. While Tetiana does not speak English, her daughter Olena Raichenko does. As she related, […]
When Deborah Sofranko, of South Fayette, PA, saw white patches on her upper gum, little did she know that the eventual diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the maxilla would […]
Dr. Greg Basura, MD, PhD, Director, Global Otolaryngology and Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, is leading a study on subjective and somatic tinnitus that is actively […]
When Sally Sherman, PhD, Associate Professor of Practice at Pitt’s Department of Health and Human Development, was watching a photographer take her daughter’s senior pictures in August 2024, she abruptly […]
If you have single-sided deafness, you may qualify for a study that Dr. Greg Basura, MD, PhD, Director, Global Otolaryngology and Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, […]
The UPMC Center for Cranial Base Surgery has released a Journey to Excellence 13-part series on YouTube, thanks to the Global Rhinology Network (GRN). GRN – a registered academic nonprofit […]
After a long and distinguished career with the Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Andrew Eller, MD, decided to retire effective end of June 2025. “Throughout his tenure, he has been instrumental […]
The Department of Ophthalmology has been able to recruit several excellent clinicians in ocular oncology, retinal diseases and surgery, comprehensive ophthalmology and oculoplastics, and just completed the recruitment of several […]
Xing Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, has won grant funding from an industry partner for a new project in her lab. Blackrock Neurotech is awarding $740,510.62 for one year. […]
Pitt’s Eye and Ear researchers have already lost more than $4 million in federal funding for three major grants, interrupting promising research. In fiscal year 2024, the University of Pittsburgh […]
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