Eating and drinking is something we often take for granted and is the link to many social events, holidays, and celebrations. If swallowing is impaired, it can change quality of […]
Dysphagia: Improving Treatment Strategies
Sight + Sound Bites Webinar: Do You Hear What I Hear?
The Eye & Ear Foundation, together with the Department of Otolaryngology, proudly presented a lunchtime educational webinar series highlighting the research and clinical innovations at the University of Pittsburgh School […]
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StreetLab: Reconceptualizing Patient Care
A belief held by Dr. José-Alain Sahel, University of Pittsburgh Department of Ophthalmology Chairman, is that, to best help a patient as a whole being, and not just consider the […]
Retinal Degenerations Webinar: Light at the End of the Tunnel
The Eye & Ear Foundation, together with the Department of Ophthalmology, proudly presented a lunchtime educational webinar series highlighting the research and clinical innovations at the University of Pittsburgh School […]
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Putting the Issue of Obstructive Sleep Apnea to Bed
It is an exciting time to be an otolaryngologist in the world of obstructive sleep apnea. Clinical care pathways are rapidly changing, multidisciplinary collaboration is on the rise, and new […]
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A New Era in Retinal Research
The most common hereditary retinal dystrophy in the world is Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). Over the past four years, the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, […]
Gathering the Pieces to Help Solve the Problem of Sino-Nasal Cancers
The Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is consistently one of the most highly regarded departments in the country. A key component of this long-time […]
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What is the Guerilla Eye Service?
Living up to their motto of “travel light and save sight,” Dr. Evan Waxman, along with ophthalmology residents and medical school students, take their “mobile eye clinic” to underserved communities […]
Three Years of the Survivorship Clinic: New Programs and New Research
In 2016, Jonas Johnson, MD, Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh, and Marci Nilsen, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor in the Department of Acute and Tertiary […]
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Big Data, Big Possibilities
By leveraging scalable computational power, machine learning offers the potential to predict outcomes of a person’s disease from real-world data extracted from electronic medical records. What is a Digital Twin? […]
Q&A with Dr. Andrew McCall, Otologist
Sight & Sound launched a new feature with our most recent edition – a Question & Answer (Q&A) session with one of our popular University of Pittsburgh faculty members and […]
Restoring Vision with Optogenetics
Dr. Sahel spoke about pioneering work in optogenetics, where scientists have attempted to, with success, restore the function of the cone cells in the eye that were not completely lost […]
Reviving Retigabine for Tinnitus Podcast
Tinnitus Talk, “a podcast on all things tinnitus,” interviewed Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD, director of the Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center on his research on developing a drug to treat tinnitus. His […]
Hearing Loss and Social Isolation
“Blindness separates us from things, but deafness separates us from people.” —Helen Keller These words, spoken so many years ago, unfortunately still hold true for millions of people with untreated […]
A New Look at Treating Eye Disease
Exciting breakthroughs in ocular drug delivery and release may provide relief for vision patients who rely on eye drops, thanks to the work of Morgan Fedorchak, PhD, Assistant Professor of […]