Preparing to Interview

Main Content

Recent Resident Research

Alberto Arteaga, MD

  • Use of COOL Therapy in Reducing CI Damage
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Repeated Temporary Threshold Shift and Changes in Cochlear and Neural Function
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Frailty in Head and Neck Cancer Patients: A Prospective Study
    • Faculty Sponsor: Lana Jackson, MD
  • T2DN and Hearing: Diabetes and Hearing Loss
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • TB Study: COOL Protection
    • Faculty Sponsor:Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Follow-up TB Study: Cooling with Saline
    • Faculty Sponsor:Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Complicated Acute Sinusitis in Children with MIS-C (COVID-19)
    • Faculty Sponsor:
  • Sound Evoked Responses in the VOR Pathway in Rats
    • Faculty Sponsor:
  • Rat Model to Study CI Induced Changes to the Vestibular System
    • Faculty Sponsor:
  • Jackson Heart Study: Hearing and Cardiovascular Health
    • Faculty Sponsor:Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
Britton Beatrous, MD
  • Case Study: A Curious Case of Cutaneous Carcinoma Metastasis from Thyroid Cancer
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  • Case Study: An Enlarging, Painful Mass of the Nasal Tip in a Young African-American Male
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD
  • In Vitro Comparison between Ovine and Human Recombinant Hyaluronidase on Hyluronic Acid Fillers
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD
    • Accepted for publication
  • TB Study: COOL Protection
    • Faculty Sponsor:Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Follow-up TB Study: Cooling with Saline
    • Faculty Sponsor:Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
Alex de Gruy, MD
  • PPE Use, Handwashing, and Hospital Acquired Infections: Pre and Post COVID 2019
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Outcomes of Inspire Implantation using the ADHERE database
    • Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Lewis, MD
  • Relationship of Overall Cardiovascular Health & Hearing Loss in an African American Population: The Jackson Heart Study
    • Faculty Sponsor: John Schweinfurth, MD
  • Prevalence of Tinnitus Based on Duration, Frequency, and Bothersomeness
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • 20/20 Hearing: Data Driven Approach to Defining Hearing Loss
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD

Kelsey Bounds Wood, MD

  • Validation of Pre-operative CT Measurements of Tumor Depth of Invasion in Oral Cavity Cancers: Prospective Study
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  • Tracheostomy Outcomes: Using Data to Drive Quality Initiative
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  • Case Report: Rare Extracutaneous Manifestation of Juvenile Xanthogranuloma Involving the Epiglottis
    • Faculty Sponsor: Claude Harbarger, MD

Hunter McMullen, MD

  • Determinants of Sedated Auditory Brainstem Response Testing
    • Faculty Sponsor: Catherine Sassano, AuD, and Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Pediatric Tracheostomy Trends Survey
    • Faculty Sponsor: Mark Reed, MD
  • 10 Fact You Need to Know About Pediatric Sinusitis
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
    • Published: Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association, 2021
  • Hypoglossal Nerve Implant Implications
    • Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Lewis, MD

Benjamin Stevens, MD

  • Effect of Post-operative Oral Steroids on Bleeding Rate After Pediatric Tonsillectomy
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
    • Published: American Journal of Otolaryngology, Aigust 2022
  • Patient provider communication for adults with hearing loss
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Top ten things you need to know about ear drainage
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
    • Published: Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association, 2021 
  • Top Ten Ear Pain
    • Faculty Sponsor: Chris Lee, MD
    • Published: Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association, 2021

Shelby Barrera, MD

  • OSA and Immunotherapy
    • Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Lewis, MD
  • Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Facial Trauma
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD
  • Case Study: Cochlear Implantation in a child with Chudley-McCullough Syndrome
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
    • Poster Presentation: COSM 2022
  • Hearing aid use in school aged children upgraded to Bluetooth enabled technology
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
Kacie Oglesby, MD
  • Oncologic Outcomes of Total Laryngectomy 
    • Faculty Sponsor: Anne Kane, MD
  • Outcomes of Free Flap in Renal Failure Patients
    • Faculty Sponsor: Anne Kane, MD
    • Oral Presentation: American Academy of Otolaryngology Meeting 2022
  • Laryngectomy Patients: Incidence and Associated Factors in Patients 55 and Younger
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
    • Poster Presentation: American Academy of Otolaryngology Meeting 2022
  • Case Report: Total Laryngectomy for Management of Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD and Anne Kane, MD
    • Poster Presentation: American Academy of Otolaryngology Meeting 2022
  • Multi-Institution Immunosuppression project
    • Faculty Sponsor: Anna Kane, MD
  • Tracheostomy Tube Selection in Obese Patients
    • Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Lewis, MD
  • Total Laryngectomy Database
    • Faculty Sponsor: Lana Jackson, MD, Gina Jefferson, MD, and Anne Kane, MD

Trace Palmer, MD

  • Mississippi Index for Swallowing and Stenosis in Laryngectomies: A screening tool for early detection of esophageal stricture development in post-laryngectomy patients.
    • Faculty Sponsor: Anne Kane, MD
  • Case Report: Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma with Cerebellar Metastasis
    • Faculty Sponsor: Lana Jackson, MD

Brooks Lampkin, MD

  • Case Report: A case of a giant nasopalatine duct cyst.
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
  • Calcitriol Loading Dose Protocol for Post-Parathyroidectomy Calcium Management
    • Faculty Sponsor: Lana Jackson, MD
  • Best Practices in Inspire Implantation
    • Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Lewis, MD

Jason Lee, MD

  • Establishment of a Resident-Led Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship Clinic
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  • COVID-19 Facial trauma trends in mechanism and incidence
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD

Eleni Mijalis, MD

  • Delayed Mastoiditis in Cochlear Implantation
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD

Amy Krecker, MD

  • Top Ten Ear Pain
    • Faculty Sponsor: Chris Lee, MD
    • Published: Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association, 2021

Recent Graduates

Hudson Frey, MD

  • Orocutaneous Fistula Presentation in an Academic Facial Plastic Surgery Practice – Case Series
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD
  • Characteristics and Considerations for Children with Ankyloglossia undergoing Frenulectomy for Dysphagia and Aspiration
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
  • Incidence and Trend of HPV Positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Rates at a Tertiary Care Center: A 10 Year Review 
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  • Review of Renal Transplant Parathyroidectomy Patients
    • Faculty Sponsor: Lana Jackson, MD

Brian McManus, MD

  • Prevalence of Conductive Pathologies
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Oxymetazoline versus Ciprofloxacin/Dexamethasone or Ofloxacin for Prevention of Post-Tympanostomy Tube Otorrhea
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
  • Case Report: Pen Penetrating Retropharyngeal Space
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD

Cindy Moore, MD

  • Pediatric Tracheostomy Trends 
    • Faculty Sponsor: Mark Reed, MD
  • Retrospective Tracheostomy Outcomes
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  • Head and Neck Trauma Trends with Changing Temperature and Spare Time 
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD
  • Enhanced Recovery after Surgery for Head and Neck Cancer
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  • Impact of ACGME Changes to Otolaryngology Intern Curriculum on Resident Operative Experience
    • Faculty Sponsor: Lana Jackson, MD
    • Poster Presentation: COSM

Jaxon Jordan, MD

  • Screening Recommendations for Hearing Loss in Adults
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Case Report: PET Scan Amino Acid Tagged Testing
    • Faculty Sponsor: Eric Bridges, MD
  • Do AxoGuard Implants Decrease Shoulder Disability After Neck Dissections?
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  • Effect of a Standardized Pain Management Strategy on Postoperative Opioid Use in Sinonasal Surgery
    • Faculty Sponsor: Scott Stringer, MD 
    • Oral Presentation: ARS at the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Annual Meeting, September 2019 

Brandon Shepherd, MD

  • Application of the Validated Swallow Outcomes after Laryngectomy (SOAL) Scoring System for Detection of Esophageal Stenosis
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  •  Central Auditory Processing and the Relationship to Perceived Hearing Difficulty
    • Faculty Sponsor: John Schweinfurth, MD
    • Poster Presentation: American Otological Society at Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting (COSM), 2020 (Virtual)
  • Dysphagia in Laryngectomy
    • Faculty Sponsor: Josie Alston, MA, SLP
  • Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Presenting as a Metastatic Nasal Mass
    • Faculty Sponsor: Lana Jackson, MD
    • Poster Presentation: TRIO at the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting (COSM), 2018

Jamie Stanford, MD

  • The Application of Modified Cool Vestibular Caloric for Treatment of Cisplatin Induced Hearing Loss
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
    • Poster Presentation: American Otological Society at Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting (COSM), 2020 (Virtual)
  • Dosing Implications for Cisplatin Induced Hearing Loss
    • Faculty Sponsor:Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD
  • Laryngectomy Versus Tracheostomy Education
    • Faculty Sponsor: Josie Alston, MA

Lauren Buck, MD

  • Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
  • A Simple Technique for Droplet Control During Mastoid Surgery
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
  • Characteristics and Considerations for Children with Ankyloglossia undergoing Frenulectomy for Dysphagia and Aspiration
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
  • Does Graft Size Effect Hearing Result in Cartilage Button Tympanostomy?
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
  • A Case of Childhood Hearing Loss-JAMA-Oto Clinical Challenge
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD 
  • Effect of Frenulectomy on Aspiration Identified on Modified Barium Swallow Studies in Children with Ankyloglossia
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
    • Podium Presentation: Mississippi Society of Otolaryngologists (MSO), 2019
  • Depth of Invasion Seen on CT Correlate with Pathologic DOI in Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma
    • Faculty Sponsor: Gina Jefferson, MD
  • Orbital Floor Fractures and Oculocardiac
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD

Steven Curti, MD

  • Relationship of Overall Cardiovascular Health & Hearing Loss in an African American Population: The Jackson Heart Study
    • Faculty Sponsor: John Schweinfurth, MD
    • Podium Presentation: Mississippi Society of Otolaryngologists (MSO), 2019
    • Podium Presentation: TRIO at Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting (COSM), 2019
  • Treatment of a Large, Obstructive Rhinophyma
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD
    • Poster Presentation: AAFPRS at Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting (COSM), 2019
  • Post Laryngectomy Care Pathway
    • Faculty Sponsor: Lana Jackson, MD
  • JHS and Life Simple 7
    • Faculty Sponsor: John Schweinfurth, MD
  • Survey on Facial Plastics
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD
  • NHANES: Audiometric Thresholds and Perceived Hearing Status
    • Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD

Amrita Ray, DO

  • Clinical challenge: An Unusual Case of Lacrimal Duct Obstruction
    • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Carron, MD
  • Association Between Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Dizziness in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study
    • Faculty Sponsor: John Schweinfurth, MD
    • Poster Presentation: TRIO at Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting (COSM), 2019 
  • Standardization of a Post-Operative Calcium Monitoring Protocol
    • Faculty Sponsor: Alexandra Brown, MD
    • Presentation: American Academy of Otolaryngology Annual Meeting, 2017
  • Primadone Therapy for Vocal Tremor (Prospective Study)
    • Faculty Sponsor: John Schweinfurth, MD
  • Balance Dysfunction and JHS
    • Faculty Sponsor: John Schweinfurth, MD
  • Marketing Injectables
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD
    • Poster Presentation: AAFPRS at Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting (COSM), 2019
  • Resource Utilization for Isolated Facial Trauma
    • Faculty Sponsor: J. Randall Jordan, MD
    • Podium Presentation: Mississippi Society of Otolaryngologists (MSO), 2019
    • Poster Presentation: AAFPRS at Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting (COSM), 2019