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This year, the HNS&CS Annual Welcome Event took place at Boxcar Bar + Arcade, where we had the pleasure of extending a warm welcome to our new resident

Dane M. Barrett, MD, a facial plastic surgeon and associate professor from the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences at Duke, collaborated with the non-profit volunteer organization, Healing the Children Northeast, to embark on an inaugural, exploratory surgical trip to Bugando Medical Center (BMC).

On September 16, 2023, a team of volunteers from the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences joined Durham Hope Space and the Youth Volunteer Corps to help remove

Monica Bodd thinks a lot about the patient experience and how to make it better — both through research and clinical practice.

The Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences (HNS&CS) at Duke University held its 9^th Annual Sinus Cadaver Dissection Cour

Dr. Emily Commesso is a highly skilled sleep surgery-trained surgeon.

Russel R. Kahmke, MD, FACS, MMCi has been promoted to Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences.

Can You Actually Make Your Voice Sound Deeper?

My clinical specialty is otology, meaning diseases of the ear. I see patients with problems with hearing imbalance, chronic ear infections, hearing loss, dizziness, balance issues, etc. Surgically, I'm still building my services, it is still early on. It takes several years after a transition to a new institution. I also do a lot of cochlear implant surgeries.

Stroke patients with damage to the right side of their brains don’t ask a lot of yes-no questions. Although they commonly retain their command of language, people with right hemisphere damage (RHD) have trouble processing the information and assumptions that go into crafting such “polar questions.”