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

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The Division of Adult General Otolaryngology physicians provide specialty expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious, inflammatory, and neoplastic conditions affecting the ear, nose and throat in adult patients.

The Division physicians provide a broad spectrum of otolaryngologic diagnostic, procedural, and surgical services in the management of chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal obstruction, facial pain from the sinuses, epistaxis, nasal polyposis, smell and taste disorders, chronic otitis media, chronic otitis externa(swimmer’s ear), hearing loss and tinnitus, chronic tonsillitis, tonsillar and adenoidal hypertrophy (enlargement), voice disorders and chronic cough, swallowing disorders that require surgical management such as Zenker’s Diverticulum, neck masses, oral mucosal disorders, obstructive sleep apnea and snoring requiring surgical therapy, thyroid and parathyroid disorders requiring surgical therapy, and salivar gland disorders.

The Division physicians have special expertise in the latest technologies involved in the minimally invasive treatment of thyroid and parathyroid disorders, chronic sinusitis and obstructive sleep apnea.


Division Contact:

Doug Massick, MD
Director of General Otolaryngology
Phone: (614) 293-9730
Fax: (614) 293-7027
email

Brad W. deSilva, MD
Phone: (614) 366-9336

Minka Schofield, MD
Phone: (614) 257-3400