Surgical Fire Prevention in Laser Laryngeal Surgery
Operating room fires pose a significant risk of harm to surgical patients, particularly in head and neck procedures involving the airway. In the cover article of the January 2015 issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Soham Roy, MD, FACS, FAAP,…
Free Cancer Screenings at Memorial Hermann-TMC
The number of cancers of the head, neck and mouth are rising faster than ever before. More…
The Story Behind the MicroSeismic Donation
MicroSeismic has made a $50,000 donation to the Memorial Hermann Foundation to help Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at UTHealth Medical School provide hearing aids to underserved pediatric patients in the Greater Houston area. Watch the…
2014 Highlights
Patient Success Stories A Gift of Hearing Breath of Fresh Air Sialendoscopy: An Innovative Minimally Invasive Approach to the Treatment of Sialolithiasis Physicians’ Mission Satisfied A Second Pair of Ears TORS-L: Transoral Robotic Surgery with CO2 Laser Offers Greater…
A Gift of Hearing
In 2014, Houston-based MicroSeismic, Inc., made a $50,000 donation to the Memorial Hermann Foundation to help Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at UTHealth Medical School provide hearing aids to underserved pediatric patients in the Greater Houston…
Profile in Caring: José Elías, RN, CORLN
When José Elías was 10 years old, his mother, a Red Cross nurse, began making neighborhood house calls after hours to care for the sick in their hometown of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. She went where she was needed late in…
Amber Luong, MD, PhD, Awarded CCTS Grant in Support of Continued Chronic Rhinosinusitis Investigations
An immune-mediated inflammatory disease involving the paranasal sinuses, chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) affects more than 10 percent of the population and is the second most common chronic disease in the United States. Despite its high incidence, the pathogenesis of CRS remains…
Two ORL Faculty Members Named to Top Doctor Lists
Martin J. Citardi, MD and Soham Roy, MD, FACS, FAAP, have been named among the Best Doctors in America® for 2014. An internationally recognized ear, nose and throat surgeon, Dr. Citardi is chief of otorhinolaryngology at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and…
Sialendoscopy: An Innovative Minimally Invasive Approach to the Treatment of Sialolithiasis
When Vida Smith Compton first saw otorhinolaryngologist Sancak Yuksel, M.D., in late summer 2013, she had pain and swelling beneath the ventral surface of her tongue on the right side, and in her neck under the mandible. “I looked like…
Physicians’ Mission Satisfied
Jim Finley, who has been in the newspaper business for more than 30 years, writes a humor column for the Baytown Sun, a community newspaper published five days a week in Baytown, Texas, 25 miles east of Houston. In September…