Clinical Activities
The Department of Otolaryngology has over 20,000 square feet of space in 26 examining rooms and five special procedures rooms for patients seen in the clinical offices, plus the needed ancillary space for allergy testing and for hearing, speech, and voice analysis.
HEAD and NECK CANCER
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The Head and Neck Tumor Board, the first multidisciplinary clinic within the institution, comprises team members from Otolaryngology, Hematology-Oncology, Dentistry, and Radiation Therapy. The clinic meets each Wednesday.
Responsible Faculty: Dale Browne, Christopher Sullivan
Joshua Waltonen
VOICE AND SWALLOWING DISORDERS
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Established in 1990, the Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders of Wake Forest University is part of the Department of Otolaryngology. The Center is devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of voice disorders. The research and clinical activities of the Center are multidisciplinary, and involve laryngology, speech pathology, neurology, gastroenterology, and vocal pedagogy.
Responsible Faculty: Carter Wright, Catherine Rees, Susan Butler
OTOLOGY, NEUROTOLOGY and SKULL BASE
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Otology, neurotology, and skull base surgery are active components of the clinical endeavors of the Department of Otolaryngology. Activities include diagnosis and treatment of hearing and balance disorders and are served by a state-of-the-art vestibular test facility. Skull base surgery deals with benign and malignant lesions of the skull base and retrocochlear structures and is most frequently a collaborative effort with the Department of Neurosurgery.
Responsible Faculty: John May, Dale Browne
RHINOLOGY and ALLERGY
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Activities in rhinology include intranasal sinus surgery, endoscopic sinus surgery, rhinologic allergy and immunology, and tumors of the paranasal sinuses.
Responsible Faculty: Brian Matthews, Whit Mims
PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY
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Special problems of the head and neck in the pediatric patient are addressed in special clinics: the Otolaryngology clinics and the multidiscipline craniofacial anomalies clinic at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. These activities address pediatric disorders of hearing, balance, swallowing, and phonation, and tumors and deformities of the head and neck.
Responsible Faculty: Daniel Kirse, Adele Evans
FACIAL PLASTIC and RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
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The activities of the Department in facial and reconstructive surgery dealing with rhinologic and soft tissue advancement include reconstructive surgery necessary because of tumor extirpation or tissue destruction, alteration or evulsion by trauma. Conventional tissue rearrangement, grafting, and microvascular flaps are employed in these activities. Dr. Neal Goldman, Director of our Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Department, is an Assistant Professor, Board certified in Otolaryngology and Facial Plastic Surgery.
Responsible Faculty: Neal Goldman
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AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH PATHOLOGY
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The North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Incorporated Department of Hearing and Speech, is an integral part of Otolaryngology. David Pillsbury is the Administrative Director, and the staff of the Department have clinical academic appointments in Otolaryngology. Dr. Dale Browne is the medical director, thereby providing for mutual teaching service and research activities. Among these activities are rehabilitation of cancer patients having disorders of voice or phonation, activities within the Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders, part of the curriculum of the residents and medical students, and the care of patients having communication disorders, including those in the cochlear implant program.
Responsible Faculty: Dale Browne, John May, Carter Wright, Catherine Rees