Steven D. Rauch, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School
Coordinator, Medical Student Education

Specialty Area

Otology

Address

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

MEEI

Tel: 617-573-3644
Office hours: Tues. and Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Clinical Background

Medical School

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1979

Residency

General Surgery – U.Mass. Medical Center
Otolaryngology – MEEI

Board Certification

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, 1984

Professional Affiliations

American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Triological Society, American Otological Society, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Society of University Otolaryngologists

Clinical Interests

Disorders of Hearing and Balance

Research Interests

Research: Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss; Meniere’s Diesase; Vestibular Prosthesis

Selected Publications

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See also below.

Dimitri PS, Wall C, Oas JG, Rauch SD. Application of Multivariate Statistics to Vestibular Testing: Discriminating Between Menière’s Disease and Migraine Associated Dizziness. J Vestib Res 2001, 11:53-65

Borg-Stein J, Rauch SD, Krabak B. Evaluation and management of cervicogenic dizziness. Crit Rev Phys Rehab Med 2001, 13:255-264

Kentala E, Rauch SD. A practical assessment algorithm for diagnosis of dizziness. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2003, 128:54-59

Wall C, Merfeld DM, Rauch SD, Black FL. Vestibular prostheses: the engineering and biomedical issues. J Vestib Res 2003, 12:95-113

Chen C-Y, Halpin C, Rauch SD. Oral steroid treatment for sudden sensorineural hearing loss: A ten year retrospective analysis. Otol Neurotol 2003, 24:728-733

Harris JP, Weisman MH, Derebery JM, Espeland MA, Gantz BJ, Gulya AJ, Hammerschlag PE, Hannley M, Hughes GB, Moscicki R, Nelson RA, Niparko JK, Rauch SD, Telian SA, Brookhouser PE. Treatment of corticosteroid-responsive autoimmune inner ear disease with methotrexate. JAMA 2003, 290:1875-1883

Rauch SD, Zhou G, Kujawa SG, Guinan JJ, Herrmann BS. Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) show altered tuning in patients with Meniere’s disease. Otol Neurotol 2004, 25:333-338

Rauch SD, Silveira MB, Zhou G, Kujawa SG, Wall, C III, Guinan JJ, Herrmann BS. Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) vs. vestibular test battery in patients with Meniere’s disease. Otol Neurotol 2004, 25:981-986

Halpin CF, Rauch SD. Two effects seen using audiometric data in a treatment study: I. A floor effect for hearing threshold improvement. II. Comparison of fixed versus binomial word recognition criteria. Otol Neurotol 2005, [in press]

Publications

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