About the Department

• Message from the Chair
• Department History
• Divisions and Specialties
• Head & Neck Oncology
• Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Laryngology and The Voice Center
• Rhinology / Sinus Surgery
• Otology, Neurotology and Cranial Base Surgery
• Adult & Pediatric General Otolaryngology
• Audiology: OSU Hearing Professionals
• Balance Disorders Program and Vestibular Research Laboratory
• Pediatric Otolaryngology
• Surgical Sleep Medicine
• Office Locations

Home > About the Department > Divisions and Specialties > Surgical Sleep Medicine

The Division of Surgical Sleep Medicine physicians provide a regional resource for the surgical treatment of sleep disordered breathing (a term that encompasses primary snoring to severe obstructive sleep apnea). The Division, working with other physicians involved in sleep medicine, strives to provide state-of-the-art therapy by offering advanced procedural and surgical services to patients suffering from sleep disordered breathing.

The Division physicians have special expertise in the latest technologies directed at sleep disordered breathing ranging from imaging and endoscopic modalities allowing the correct diagnosis the site of airway turbulence/obstruction to Pillar Implantation and tongue base advancement.

Division Contact:

Doug Massick, MD
Director of Surgical Sleep Medicine
Phone: (614) 293-9730
Fax: (614) 293-7027
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