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ACTIVE LABORATORIES

Active labs are currently accepting and processing new  temporal bone specimens. For complete laboratory descriptions, click on the name of the laboratory or see below.

Goodhill Ear Center (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA
House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

University of California, San Diego, CA
University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN
University of Texas Southwestern Medical , Dallas, TX

Goodhill Ear Center
UCLA School of Medicine

Director/Contact: Akira Ishiyama, M.D.
 

Goodhill Ear Center
UCLA School of Medicine
31-24 Rehabilitation Center
1000 Veteran Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1794

Activity status: Active
Cases: 500
Temporal Bones: 1000
Brain Specimens: 10
Average Number of Specimens Processed /year: 20
No. of Histopathologists: 1
No. of Technicians: 1

Eccles Temporal Bone Laboratory
House Ear Institute

Co-Director/Contact: Fred H. Linthicum, Jr, M.D.
Co-Director/Contact:
Jose N. Fayad, M.D.

Eccles Temporal Bone Laboratory
House Ear Institute
2100 West Third Street
4th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90057

Phone: (213) 483-4431, X7093
FAX: (213) 413-8789

Activity status: Active
Cases: 2008
Temporal Bones: 1256
Brain specimens: 72
Average No. of specimens processed/year: 60
No. of Histopathologists: 2
No. of Technicians: 1.5
No. of Training Opportunities/Year: 3

Johns Hopkins University
Director/Contact: John K. Niparko, M.D.
Co-Director/Contact:
Howard W. Francis, M.D.
 

The Johns Hopkins Temporal Bone Collection
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
P.O. Box 41402
Baltimore, MD 21203-6402

Phone :
(410) 955-2689 (JN)
FAX: (410) 614-9444
(410) 955-8409 (HF)
FAX: (410) 614-8610

Activity status: Active
Cases: 3522
Temporal Bones: 3520
Brain specimens: 2
Average No. of specimens processed/year: 12
No. of Histopathologists: 1
No. of Technicians: 1

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Director: Joseph B. Nadol, Jr., M.D.
Contact:
Saumil N. Merchant, M.D.
 

Otopathology Laboratory at
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
243 Charles St.
Boston, MA 02114

Phone: (617) 573-3654 (JN)
(617) 573-3503 (SM)
FAX: (617) 573-3939 (JN)
(617) 573-3838 (SM)

Activity status: Active
Cases: 862
Temporal Bones: 1518
Average No. of specimens processed/year: 26
No. of Histopathologists: 4 No. of Technicians: 1.5
No. of Training Opportunities/Year: 1-4

Medical College of Wisconsin

Director/Contact: P. Ashley Wackym, M.D.

 

Department of Otolaryngology & Communication Sciences

Medical College of Wisconsin

9200 W Wisconsin Ave

Milwaukee, WI 53226

 

Phone: (414) 454-5582

Fax: (414) 805-7936

 

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Medical University of South Carolina

Director/Contact: Bradley A. Schulte, Ph.D.

 

Medical University of South Carolina

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

165 Ashley Ave Ste 309

PO Box 250908

Charleston SC  29425

 

University of California, San Diego
Director/Contact: Elizabeth M. Keithley, Ph.D.
 

University of California, San Diego
Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery

9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0666

Phone: (858) 534-2201
FAX: (858) 534-5319

Activity status: Active
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University of Minnesota

Director: Michael M. Paparella, M.D.
Contact:
Patricia Schachern
 

Otopathology Laboratory at
Department of Otolaryngology
University of Minnesota
Department of Otolaryngology
University of Minnesota

8-304 Box 396 UMHC
420 Delaware St., S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: (612) 626-9876
FAX: (612) 626-6800

Activity status: Active
Cases: 946
Temporal Bones: 1694
Average No. of specimens processed/year: 20-30
No. of Histopathologists: 3
No. of Technicians: 2
No. of Training Opportunities/Year: 5

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Director/Contact: Charles G. Wright, PhD
 

Otology Laboratory at
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dept. of Otolaryngology
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75235-9035

Phone: (214) 905-3117
FAX: (214) 905-3053

Activity status: Active
Cases: 137
Temporal Bones:
Average No. of specimens processed/year: 30
No. of Histopathologists: 2
No. of Technicians: 1
No. of Training Opportunities/Year: 3 to 4 (Residents)

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NIDCD National Temporal Bone, Hearing and Balance Pathology Resource Registry
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114-3096
Tel: (800) 822-1327, TTY: (888) 561-3277, Fax: (617) 573-3838
Email: tbregistry@meei.harvard.edu
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Last Update: March 11, 2008


The Registry is supported by Contract No. HHS-N-260-2004-00001-C from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.