“UConn med students are making all of us proud by representing our institution with excellent quality presentations at the premiere academic otolaryngology conference of the year,” shared Dr. Kourosh Parham, professor and program director of research in the Department of Surgery’s Division of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.
Parham adds, “They deserve a lot of credit for being selected to present. The societies are very selective in accepting poster and podium presentations.”
The Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings (COSM) is the joint meeting of eight specialty otolaryngology societies. Its mission is to bring together the membership of the COSM societies, Otolaryngology residents in training, medical students and allied health professionals for the purpose of disseminating and exchanging the latest cutting edge clinical and basic scientific research.
This year’s COSM poster and presentations by UConn medical students included:
Desiree Campbell presenting her team’s research poster on the comparison of western blots and ELISA methods for quantification of ototoxicity biomarker prestin in the Annual Meeting of the American Neurotological Society. An additional podium presentation was also given by Heather McClure, SOM Class of 2026 on western blot characterization of human serum prestin, an outer hair cell biomarker.
Patrick Adamczyk presenting his team’s research poster on serum levels of otologic biomarker, prestin, suggest cochlear upregulation in tinnitus patients in the Annual Meeting of the Triological Society.
Mohsin Mirza and team presenting a poster on how levels of inner ear biomarker, otolin-1 are related to serum calcium levels in the Annual Meeting of the American Otological Society.
In addition, Grace Nichols shared two presentations of her research team assessing the quality of online patient education materials on pediatric functional endoscopic sinus surgery at The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology; and also on investigating the laryngeal microbiome in pathological and non-pathological states at the Annual Meeting of the American Laryngeal Association.
