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The department of Otolaryngology-Head
and Neck Surgery is dedicated to the University of Illinois's three fold
mission of Teaching, Research, and Public Service. Our faculty and staff
are committed to providing excellence in patient care in concert with a
carefully structured resident physician teaching program. In addition to
clinical and didactic responsibilities, the faculty, research staff and
residents are actively involved in innovative medical research that
focuses on the discovery of new and improved methods for the management
and treatment of patients in the field of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck
Surgery.
Otolaryngology-HNS is a surgical field
of medicine that includes several sub-specialties including audiology,
facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, laryngology, neurotology/skull
base surgery, otology, sinus surgery, speech pathology and head and neck
surgery. Our physicians are highly trained professionals and experts in
their respective fields of practice. They maintain their high level of
expertise by attending and presenting at key medical conferences,
reviewing the current literature, and actively searching to improve
their respective fields of interest through basic, preclinical, and
clinical research.
As a member of the U of I academic
community, our department has access to the University's vast
technological and professional resources. Experts in all medical and
general academic fields of study are readily accessible and eager to
share their knowledge for the advancement of science. The combination of
innovative ideas, in conjunction with expert collaborative support and
the University's extensive technological and physical resources, yields
an environment ideal for scientific research.
The faculty, in tandem with a talented
research staff with over 50 years of experience, manage all aspects of
the research process from initial study design and preparation of
preclinical and clinical protocols to manuscript submission for
publication. The department maintains over 3000 square feet of space for
basic and preclinical research, an accredited GLP laboratory along with
a dedicated laboratory for decalcified and non-decalcified histology,
and a state of the art 15 station temporal bone laboratory used for
teaching the intricacies of temporal bone anatomy and surgery. In
addition to departmental resources, the University of Illinois Medical
Center maintains the largest preclinical surgical facility in the
mid-west for new product, procedure and device evaluation prior to
clinical trails.
In addition to our own internal and
grant funded research endeavors, our faculty and staff collaborate with
corporations in the design, development, testing and evaluation of new
and promising medical technologies. Our broad range of research
capabilities enable our collaborative efforts to proceed on all research
levels from basic and preclinical investigation to clinical trials. Our
department also conducts corporate contract work for companies that
require an independent and reliable source of testing and data
evaluation in order to proceed with 510K and FDA submission procedures.
The department of Otolaryngology-HNS is
dedicated, through the combination of careful planning, expert
knowledge, and meticulous execution, to conducting the highest quality
of research in every project we undertake. If you would like to learn
more about our faculty and staff and the current research being
conducted in our department please visit our
Pre-Clinical
Currents in Research and
Clinical Currents in
Research web sites. Or if you are a corporation, organization or
individual interested in discussing research ideas, or opportunities for
future research collaboration, please contact our research coordinator
Kevin M. O'Grady at kogrady@uic.edu
or call 312/996/6508.
A problem is simply
an opportunity in disguise, awaiting a solution
through the interaction of directed creative thought and positive
initiative.
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