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Konstantina Stankovic, M.D., Ph.D.

Specialty: Otology and Neurotology
Phone Number: 617-573-3972
Fax: 617-573-3637
Location: 243 Charles Street
Boston, MA 02114
Office Hours: Tues. 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Board Certification: Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Neurotology, Otolaryngology
Graduate School Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Medical School Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Internship Massachusetts General Hospital
Residency Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Fellowship Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Teaching Affiliation Assistant Professor of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School
Biographical Profile:

 

Dr. Stankovic is a board-certified ear and skull base surgeon and a PhD-trained auditory neuroscientist. Her medical education includes a medical degree from Harvard (Magna Cum Laude), Internship in General Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Residency in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck surgery at Harvard and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), and Fellowship in Neurotology - Skull Base Surgery at Harvard and MEEI.

Her scientific training includes BS degrees in Physics and in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), PhD degree in Auditory Neuroscience from MIT, and post-doctoral training in Molecular Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital, Boston.

She has received numerous awards, including the Association of M.I.T. Alumnae (AMITA) annual award given to the outstanding senior woman for the highest degree of academic excellence and professional promise, the Henry Asbury Christian Award for outstanding performance in research and scholarly activities, Harvard Medical School, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral research fellowship for physicians and young investigator award from the National Organization for Hearing Research. She presently serves on the Executive Board of the American Auditory Society, and on the Long Range Planning Committee of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.

Concurrent with her clinical activities, she directs a basic science laboratory that focuses on hearing and hearing restoration. The approach is interdisciplinary, combining tools of systems neuroscience with molecular, genetic and genomic studies to arrive at novel diagnostic and prognostic tools, and therapies for deafness.

Her clinical and research work drives and reinforces one another. Her involvement in cutting-edge research gives her patients the opportunity to participate in clinical trials that could lead to breakthroughs in addressing the problems of participating patients, while advancing the knowledge frontier of the auditory field.

Clinical Interests

Otology/Neurotology, including hearing loss in adults and children, cochlear implants and other implantable hearing devices, acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannomas), otosclerosis, and cholesteatoma.

Research Interests

Degeneration and regeneration of the inner ear, development of novel diagnostic and prognostic tools for hearing loss, mechanisms of sensorineural hearing loss due to acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannomas), otosclerosis, and noise trauma.

Visit Dr. Stankovic's research page.

Publications

Please see her biosketch.

Loss of osteoprotegerin expression in the inner ear causes degeneration of the cochlear nerve and sensorineural hearing loss. Kao SY, Kempfle JS, Jensen JB, Perez-Fernandez D, Lysaght AC, Edge AS, Stankovic KM. Neurobiol Dis. 2013 Apr 20.

Two-photon microscopy of the mouse cochlea in situ for cellular diagnosis. Yang X, Pu Y, Hsieh CL, Ong CA, Psaltis D, Stankovic KM. J Biomed Opt. 2013 Mar;18(3):031104.

Sporadic Vestibular Schwannomas Associated With Good Hearing Secrete Higher Levels of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 Than Those Associated With Poor Hearing Irrespective of Tumor Size. Dilwali S, Lysaght A, Roberts D, Barker FG 2nd, McKenna MJ, Stankovic KM. Otol Neurotol. 2013 Mar 18.

Quantitative polarized light microscopy of unstained mammalian cochlear sections. Kalwani NM, Ong CA, Lysaght AC, Haward SJ, McKinley GH, Stankovic KM. J Biomed Opt. 2013 Feb;18(2):26021.

Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 2-2013. A 20-year-old man with recurrent ear pain, fever, and headache. Stankovic KM, Eskandar E, El Khoury JB, Lev MH, Sadow PM. N Engl J Med. 2013 Jan 17;368(3):267-77.

Two-photon microscopy of the mouse cochlea in situ for cellular diagnosis. Yang X, Pu Y, Hsieh CL, Ong CA, Psaltis D, Stankovic KM. J Biomed Opt. 2013 Mar;18(3):31104.

Energy extraction from the biologic battery in the inner ear. Mercier PP, Lysaght AC, Bandyopadhyay S, Chandrakasan AP, Stankovic KM. Nat Biotechnol. 2012 Dec;30(12):1240-3.

Sensorineural Hearing Loss following Imatinib (Gleevec) Administration. Lin HW, Roberts DS, Kay J, Stankovic KM. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2011 Jul 13.

Proteome of human perilymph. Lysaght AC, Kao SY, Paulo JA, Merchant SN, Steen H, Stankovic KM. J Proteome Res. 2011 Sep 2;10(9):3845-51.

Pathways analysis of molecular markers in chronic sinusitis with polyps. Platt MP, Soler Z, Metson R, Stankovic KM. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2011 May;144(5):802-8.

A complete list of research publications can be seen at www.pubmed.gov. Type the physician's name at the top, where it says 'for'  and the physician's research publications will appear.

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