September 15, 2020
Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, an associate professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and UC Health physician, discusses seasonal allergies with local TV stations Fox 19 and WCPO.
August 21, 2020
Ahmad Sedaghat, director of rhinology, allergy and anterior skull base surgery at the University of Cincinnati, discusses COVID-19 attack on the central nervous system with NPR affiliate in Cincinnati WVXU. Sedaghat, an assistant professor in the College of Medicine, sees patients at UC Health where he specializes in diseases of the nose and sinuses.
June 19, 2021
Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, director of the University of Cincinnati Division of Rhinology, Allergy and Anterior Skull Base Surgery, tells WKEF-TV in Dayton why it is taking months for some COVID-19 patients to regain their sense of smell.
June 11, 2021
Ravi Samy, MD, professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and chief of the UC Division of Otology/Neurotology, spoke with Ivanhoe Broadcasting for a segment about a new implant designed to help hearing impaired patients.
December 10, 2021
Parosmia is a post-COVID-19 condition that can make once-pleasant foods and scents smell and taste disgusting, in some instances like sewage, garbage or smoke. The condition is being reported in increasing numbers. HuffPost published a story on parosmia, citing the case of a 20-year-old woman who has posted several TikTok videos on her experiences with the condition. One of the experts cited in the article is Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, associate professor and director of the Division of Rhinology, Allergy and Anterior Skull Base Surgery in the UC College of Medicine.
April 15, 2021
Rebecca Howell, MD, of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in the UC College of Medicine, was interviewed by WXIX-TV, Fox19 about World Voice Day coming up on Friday, April 16.
September 23, 2021
Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, University of Cincinnati Director of Rhinology, Allergy and Anterior skull base surgery, and associate professor of otolaryngology was interviewed by CNBC for a story on parosmia, a side effect of COVID-19 that distorts a person's sense of smell.
March 17, 2021
Charles Prestigiacomo, MD, created the Advanced Anatomy of the Head and Neck elective, offered to fourth-year students at the UC College of Medicine who are getting ready to match in surgical residencies and begin performing procedures on patients. He and colleagues are seeing how this class is better preparing students to begin their careers with a little more “real-life” practice.
January 9, 2024
A new trial at the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute, funded by a $660,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, will test an at-home tongue endurance exercise to improve patients’ swallowing function after a stroke.
September 7, 2022
University of Cincinnati researchers recently published study results in JAMA Otolaryngology showing that administering immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab before surgery for oral cavity cancer did not increase rates of complication during and after surgery.