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Even though he was born in Canada and his own father delivered world famous hockey star Wayne Gretzky, Austin Rose, who practices pediatric otolaryngology at UNC, didn’t start playing hockey until he moved to North Carolina. Austin Rose, MD Wednesday, April 11, 2012Written by Nathan Clendenin for UNC Health CareI...

Trevor Hackman, MD, UNC Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, is the first head and neck surgeon in the Carolinas to have accomplished this honor. Trevor G. Hackman, MD He is now listed as a da Vinci Surgeon on www.davincisurgery.com. This website is a great resource for patients in...

Meg T. Dillon, AuD CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — It’s an amazing era for many people who suffer from hearing loss. 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...

Drs. Adam Zanation and Carlton Zdanski A newborn Wilmington boy has become the youngest and smallest patient in the world to undergo robotic surgery. 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...

Carol G. Shores, MD, PhD Carol Shores, MD, PhD, FACS, has been interested in the link between viruses and cancer for over 20 years, after working on virus- associated cancers as a pre-doctoral fellow in the UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Oropharyngeal cancers, like cervical cancer, are associated with...

An ad hoc committee has been appointed to undertake a routine administrative review of the leadership provided by Dr. Rick Pillsbury in his position as Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology. Harold C. Pillsbury III, MD The five-year review is a standard procedure of the School of Medicine at the...

Harold C. Pillsbury III, MD FROM ENT TODAY, JUNE 2011 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...

Mark C. Weissler, MD “In an ENT practice parotid tumors are not terribly rare, and about 80 percent of them are benign,” said Mark C. Weissler, distinguished professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at the UNC School of Medicine. He diagnosed Jean Rogers’ tumor as malignant, removed it and dead...

Concert information: Allan Friedman, 919-684-3855, allan@duke.edu Media contact: Janet Buehler (919) 624-3500, janetbuehler@mindspring.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “A Feast for the Senses” Women’s Voices Chorus summer concert to benefit deaf children (Chapel Hill, NC) – Women’s Voices Chorus (WVC) will perform a summer concert entitled “A Feast for the Senses, Sunday,...

From left: Amelia Drake, Rose Eapen, Georgette Dent, Ashmita Chatterjee, Sharon Windsor Medical honors fraternity, Alpha Omega Alpha, inducted a new ENT Chief Resident. You can read the story here.

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