Clinical Interests
Pediatric and adult Otologic and Neurotologic surgery
Pediatric and adult cochlear implant surgery

What would you like your patients to know about you?
My primary clinical focus is cochlear implant surgery for infants, children and adults. I am studying outcomes following unilateral and bilateral cochlear implants in children and have a special interest in surgery for the malformed inner ear (large vestibular aqueduct, Mondini, common cavity.)

I am also Director of the Wilson Auditory Brainstem Implant program. Our program, the first of its kind in New England, is a multidisciplinary team of scientists, neurologists, surgeons, and audiologists based both at Mass. Eye and Ear and Mass. General. Auditory brainstem implants provide hearing for patients who are not candidates for cochlear implants, such as those with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2), scarred inner ears, or absent or damaged auditory nerves.

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Selected Publications

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Cox, KM, Lee, DJ, Carey, JP, and Minor, LB, Dehiscence of bone overlying the superior semicircular canal as a cause of an air-bone gap on audiometry: a case study. Am J Audiol, 2003. 12(1): p. 11-6.

Lee, DJ, Cahill, HB, and Ryugo, DK, Effects of congenital deafness in the cochlear nuclei of Shaker-2 mice:  an ultrastructural analysis of synapse morphology in the endbulbs of Held. J Neurocytol, 2003. 32: p. 229-243.

Lee, DJ, Westra, W, Staecker, H, Long, D, and Niparko, JK, Clinical and histopathological features of recurrent vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) following stereotactic radiosurgery. Am J Otol Neurotol, 2003. 24(4): p. 650-60.

Lee, DJ and Driver, M, Cochlear implant fixation using titanium screws. Laryngoscope, 2005. 115(5): p. 910-1.

Lee, DJ, Lustig, L, Sampson, M, Chinnici, J, and Niparko, JK, Effects of cytomegalovirus (CMV) related deafness on pediatric cochlear implant outcomes. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 2005. 133(6): p. 900-5.

Brodsky, JR, Smith, TW, Litofsky, S, and Lee, DJ, Lipoma of the cerebellopontine angle. Am J Otolaryngol, 2006. 27(4): p. 271-4.

Lee, DJ, de Venecia, RK, Guinan, JJ, Jr., and Brown, MC, Central auditory pathways mediating the rat middle ear muscle reflexes. Anat Rec, 2006. 288(4): p. 358-69.

Lee, DJ, Maseyesva, B, Westra, W, Long, D, Niparko, JK, and Califano, J, Microsatellite analysis of recurrent vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) following stereotactic radiosurgery. Otol Neurotol, 2006. 27(2): p. 213-9.

Watters, KF, Rosowski, JJ, Sauter, T, and Lee, DJ, Superior semicircular canal dehiscence presenting as postpartum vertigo. Otol Neurotol, 2006. 27(6): p. 756-68.

Merchant, SN, Nakajima, HH, Halpin, C, Nadol, JB, Jr., Lee, DJ, Innis, WP, Curtin, H, and Rosowski, JJ, Clinical investigation and mechanism of air-bone gaps in large vestibular aqueduct syndrome. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol, 2007. 116(7): p. 532-41.

Lee, DJ, Benson, TE, and Brown, MC, Diverse synaptic terminals on rat stapedius motoneurons. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol, 2008. 9(3): p. 321-33.

Poissant, SF, Beaudoin, F, Huang, J, Brodsky, J, and Lee, DJ, Impact of cochlear implantation on speech understanding, depression, and loneliness in the elderly. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 2008. 37(4): p. 488-94.

Mukerji, S, Brown, MC, and Lee, DJ, A morphologic study of Fluorogold labeled tensor tympani motoneurons in mice. Brain Res, 2009. 1278: p. 59-65.

Roditi, RE, Eppsteiner, RW, Sauter, TB, and Lee, DJ, Cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) in patients with superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS). Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 2009. 141(1): p. 24-8.

Roditi, RE, Poissant, SF, Bero, EM, and Lee, DJ, A predictive model of cochlear implant performance in postlingually deafened adults. Otol Neurotol, 2009. 30(4): p. 449-54.

Kaufmann, L, Sauter, TB, and Lee, DJ, Dysplasia of the cerebellum in Waardenburg Syndrome: outcomes following cochlear implantation. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol, 2009. In press.

Publications

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