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Dr. Sobin's areas of research involve delivery of pediatric otolaryngology care to our patient population in central Massachusetts. Current research areas including improving patient experiences in collaboration with child life specialists, healthcare disparities, Pierre Robin Syndrome interventions, and impact of viruses on upper airway lymphatic tissue.

Dr. Sobin is looking for students to join her lab and can be reached at lindsay.sobin@umassmemorial.org.

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I am a surgeon scientist with a research appointment at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and a clinical appointment as a Neurotologist at UMass Memorial Health and Boston Children’s Hospital. My research interest is in improving medical and surgical management of pediatric and adult chronic ear disease and hearing loss. 

Specifically, I have an interest in improving diagnostics for and treatment of middle ear disorders and conductive hearing loss. In my lab we seek to understand how high frequency sound is conducted to the cochlea through air and bone conduction measures. We evaluate middle ear transfer function in animals and humans using optical and acoustic techniques such as laser Doppler vibrometry, optical coherence tomography, and bone conduction. Human subjects testing is also routinely performed in my lab to assess sensitivity to high frequency sound through bone conduction. My lab is currently supported through NIH and DoD grants.

I am looking for students to join my lab and can be reached at aaron.remenschneider@umassmemorial.org.

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Through her research, Dr. Chari aims to improve the diagnostic prediction of vestibular disorders with vestibular perceptual testing and novel ambulatory technology (e.g. videos and sensors). In addition, she is interested in characterizing the long-term spatial cognitive impairment that occurs in vestibulopathic populations using virtual reality applications. These deficits can be critical to daily activities (e.g. driving, navigating around one’s environment), yet our understanding of the vestibular-cognitive relationship and our ability to evaluate for these problems clinically is still evolving. Dr. Chari also studies patient outcomes in vestibular disorders, including vestibular migraine, superior canal dehiscence, Meniere’s disease and peripheral vestibular hypofunction. 

Dr. Chari is looking for students to join her lab and can be reached at divya.chari@umassmemorial.org.