We use our voices to express emotion, to relay wants and needs, and to work. Think about all of the powerful voices you might be familiar with: from our President, Barack Obama’s voice during an inaugural address to Justin Bieber’s voice in concert to a love one’s voice communicating something very meaningful.
Our voices help to shape who we are, through their own characteristics and through the words they help to shape. UNC Hospitals Hearing and Voice Center is dedicated to helping you to optimize your voice, whether it is identifying the problem, helping to treat it, or to put you in touch with other people that have similar voice problems for support. Chances are there is someone like you around the world that is experiencing the same emotion with regard to their own voice. Join the UNC Voice Center in recognizing the importance of vocal health. For more information about the UNC Voice Center, call (919) 490-3716.
]]>Adverse weather prevented the Teams from completing the ENT Kaizen on Friday, January 25th. They picked up on Monday for the final walkthrough, hatched a 45-day Plan. Check it out!
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]]>A favorite to touring crowds, seven year old male lion Thomas, was sedated and checked out by UNC ENT Drs. Harold Pillsbury, Brent Senior, Cristine Klatt-Cromwell, Adam Campbell, Grace Kim, and Gita Matajadan, and Alamance ENT Dr. Madison Clark. It was determined that Thomas had a middle ear infection and would be prescribed antibiotics to treat the infection.
Reporter on the scene was Michael Abernathy from The Times-News of Burlington. Photo by Sam Roberts of The Times-News of Burlington.
Now, some are flocking to do the same with something that’s usually a dead giveaway: a voice that sounds “old.”
Research shows that older peoples’ voices often develop breathiness, weakness and loss or range or quality from causes that include disease , changed use of their voices, and the condition called presbylaryngis, also known as “aging of the larynx.”
As the baby boomers grow old, the estimated 30 percent of older North Carolinians with speech disorders will roughly double over the next two decades. Those born between 1946 and 1964 will likely object even more than today’s patients to a lessened ability to speak and be heard clearly, said Dr. Robert Buckmire, a UNC Chapel Hill otolaryngologist. “There’s a significant social cost to not being able to communicate,” said Buckmire, who works with a team that includes speech therapist Ellen Markus.
To read the rest, please visit the original article on the News and Observer.
]]>The finalists – doctors, nurses, volunteers and administrators – will be honored at an awards dinner on March 22 at the Marriott City Center in downtown Raleigh. The 6 p.m. dinner event will immediately follow a Health Care Expo, which will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The winners will be announced at the event and profiles of the honorees will be published as part of a special section in the March 23 issue of Triangle Business Journal.
Read more here.
]]>This is truly an honor for Dr. Hackman and the UNC Robotics Team, as it required much hard work and dedication. Dr. Hackman began with a personal commitment to conduct da Vinci training and has since mastered his TORS approach. Dr. Hackman adopted the da Vinci approach to provide the ability to reconstruct utilizing suturing thus improving outcomes for patients with oral cancer. His patients have since been offered the most comprehensive, minimally invasive surgical option for throat cancer. He is now able to drastically limit the possibility of a patient having an open mandibulotomy procedure, and the long recovery that goes along with it. Dr. Hackman’s commitment to minimally invasive surgery, dedication, and hard work should be commended. Congratulations on this great achievement!
You can find Dr. Hackman on the da Vinci physician finder page located here.
]]>Thanks to ever-improving technology and the use of cochlear implants, devices surgically implanted into the inner ear, people once consigned to reading lips and learning sign language have been given a new lease on life.
Read the full story on WRAL News here.
]]>When Raiden Jewett was born on Nov. 13, his first breaths of life sounded odd.
"They thought he was just congested, because he was making this weird noise," his mother, Brandie Jewett, said.
The usual attempts to clear a baby's airway, though, didn't work. A benign cyst just above the vocal chords was the real problem.
The standard surgical approach for such a problem involves making an incision in the neck to insert a breathing tube in the airway.
Read the full story on WRAL News here.
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]]>The committee invites your written or verbal comments, suggestions and relevant information. If you wish to submit a letter, please send your correspondence to the following address prior to Aug. 28, 2011. Please note that North Carolina law requires that any written materials developed or received by the committee during the review may be made available to the person being reviewed upon request.
Dr. Rick Pillsbury Review Committee
Office of the Dean, School of Medicine
4030 Bondurant Hall, CB#7000
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599
Individuals who wish to meet with the committee will have an opportunity to do so on Monday, Aug. 29 from 2-5 p.m. and Monday, Sept. 19 from 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. in 4038 Bondurant Hall. Please contact Carol Edenton at 966-0598 or carol_edenton@med.unc.edu for an appointment. Individuals are welcome to contact committee members directly as well.
Pillsbury Review Committee:
Matt Ewend, MD, Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Matthew_Ewend@med.unc.edu
Luis Diaz, MD, Chair, Department of Dermatology, ldiaz@med.unc.edu
CHICAGO -- Harold Pillsbury, MD, chair of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, is known as one of the more colorful figures in his field, with a bright smile—usually accompanied by a bow tie—and a forthright demeanor.
In addition to his long list of honors and publications, “He is probably one of the most loyal, thoughtful, reliable people anyone could ever want to call a friend,” said Gerald Berke, MD, president of the Triological Society.
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