In the spirit of the season, the UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center team volunteered at Glide www.glide.org serving lunch to those in need. What a great experience and a tradition we hope to continue.
Posted December 18, 2018
UCSF Medical Center was ranked a top 10 Hospital by U.S. News & World Report of Best Hospitals 2018-19. The UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery is named 7th best in the nation. Learn more at UCSF News.
Posted October 30, 2018
The 2018 Merzenich Discovery Lecture occurred on Friday October 19th. Our guest lecturer was Dr. Patricia Leake who is now a Professor Emerita at UCSF after a long and distinguished career as the head of our Epstein Laboratory. Pat reviewed her...
Posted October 30, 2018
Annual Roger Boles Lecture addresses HPV in Oral Cancer
On September 20th, an invited guest speaker, Theodore Teknos, MD, gave the annual Roger Boles, MD, lecture, presenting on the topic of human papillomavirus (HPV) in Head and Neck Cancer to a...
Posted September 21, 2018
Dr. Charles Limb was recently on stage and took part in the 2nd annual Music and Mind: Sound Health concert.
The event is a joint collaboration between Kennedy Center and the National Institutes of Health, who are putting a spotlight into the...
Posted September 07, 2018
Patrick Ha, MD of UCSF introduces a new unique approach to treating Head & Neck Cancer.
With the advent of new technology to aid in operative approaches, to the development of novel treatment medications and diagnostics, to the nuanced design...
Posted August 12, 2018
Dr Charles Limb was recently in a feature with Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart on NBC Washington (WRC-4) in partnership with NIH to showcase the healing powers of music.
This news piece discusses a joint collaboration between the Kennedy Center...
Posted August 01, 2018
Dr. Charles Limb and his research was recently featured on UCSF News, from the article Musical Improvisation in the Brain.
From the article:
How do artists produce such unique, emotive, and coherent pieces of music with no sheet music or...
Posted July 30, 2018
It is with great excitement that I am able to announce that Matthew H. Spitzer, PhD has joined the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery with an appointment in Microbiology and Immunology. Matt is currently a Sandler and Parker Fellow...
Posted July 10, 2018
Congratulations to the chief residents and fellows who graduated on Friday, June 16, 2018. At the graduation ceremony, Dr. Dylan Chan led a troupe of faculty and residents in a fond musical tribute to the chief residents, Hamilton, a la...
Posted June 21, 2018