Research
Sara Abu-Ghanem, MD
Director of Clinical Research
About: Sara Abu-Ghanem MD MMedSc is an otolaryngologist (ENT) with expertise in Laryngology: voice, airway, and swallowing disorders. She received her residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and completed two years of clinical fellowship in Laryngology and Bronchoesophagology at Stanford University School of Medicine (California, USA) and New York University School of Medicine (New York, USA).
Richard Kollmar, PhD
Director of Basic Science Research
About: Dr. Kollmar earned his Diploma in Chemistry at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried. He earned his Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His postdoctoral training in sensory neuroscience was with Dr. A. J. Hudspeth at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and at Rockefeller University in New York.
Dr Richard Kollmar, Director of Basic Science Research, discusses the translation research projects in the department of Otolaryngology.
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SUNY Downstate Research Presentations at the 2023 AAO-HNS Meeting
Research by SUNY Downstate residents and faculty was presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery hosted in Nashville, TN from 9/30 - 10/4/2023.
Poster Presentations
Alexander E. Graf MD, Chellapriya Vythinathan MD, Simon Bellido BA, Jigar Govind MD,
Lawrence Fordjour MD, Sydney C. Butts MD, Ann Plum MD
Reporting Nasal Injuries in Neonates Receiving Non-Invasive Ventilation: A Scoping
Review
Poster PDF
Alexander E Graf, MD, Alla Mehl, MS, CCC-SLP, Amelia De Costa, MS, CCC-SLP, Richard
M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, Sara Abu-Ghanem, MD
Assessment of Swallowing Function in Healthy Adults While Using High-Flow Nasal Canula
Poster PDF
Ryan M. Kong MD, Natalie Cipriano BS, Jennifer J. Liang MD, Katie Kong, Lori A. Hoepner
DrPH, Nira A. Goldstein MD, MPH, Natalya Chernichenko, MD
Racial Disparities in Outcomes After Major Head and Neck Surgery
Poster PDF
Fasil Mathews, MD, Victoria Sook Keng Tung, PhD, Robert Foronjy, MD, Marina Boruk,
MD, James A Knowles, MD, PhD, Oleg V Evgrafov, PhD
A Single Cell Atlas of the Human Middle Turbinate
Poster PDF
Oral Presentations
Alexander Graf, MD, Alexandrea Beemer, Simon Bellido BA, Rahul Gulati, MD, Richard
Rosenfeld MD MPH MBA, Krishnamurthi Sundaram, MD
Current Practices: Antibiotic Use Following Placement of Nasal Packing
James Alrassi, MD
The AAO-HNS Archival Collection of Dr. Chevalier Jackson
Awarded the Dory U Pettit Memorial Lectureship grant for best resident presentation
at the History and Archives Committee Session
