Nausheen Jamal
Nausheen Jamal, MD, MBA, is a Professor and the Harry Carothers Wiess Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She then completed her residency in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, followed by a fellowship in Laryngology at the University of California, Los Angeles. A fellowship-trained laryngologist, Dr. Jamal specializes in voice, airway, and swallowing disorders, providing expert care to patients with complex laryngeal conditions. In addition to her clinical expertise, she has been deeply involved in graduate medical education (GME), having served in multiple leadership roles, including residency program director, Associate Dean for GME, and Designated Institutional Official (DIO) to the ACGME and NRMP. She is passionate about mentoring learners and fostering professional development, particularly through her work with the Women in Otolaryngology (WIO) Leadership Development & Mentorship Committee. Dr. Jamal is also a prominent voice in national otolaryngology forums, frequently contributing to discussions on leadership, psychological safety in healthcare, and medical education.
Sessions
Swallowing Head And Neck Cancer: From prevention to treatment
- Background: Chronic cough remains a challenging condition, especially in cases where it persists despite comprehensive medical management.
- Objectives: Understand the multitude of etiologies that can contribute to chronic cough.
- Methods: Review a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to chronic cough work-up and management.
- Results: Identify a workflow algorithm to ensure that no “red flag” diagnoses are missed, and recognize when to involve colleagues in pulmonology, allergy, gastroenterology, and speech language pathology.
- Conclusion: Multidisciplinary work-up and management is key when it comes to chronic cough. Behavioral therapy may be underutilized in practice and could lead to improvement of otherwise recalcitrant cough.
- Background: With increases in survivorship for patients with head and neck cancer, attention is turning to quality-of-life issues for survivors. Care for these patients is multifaceted.
- Objectives: Dysphagia and issues of voice/speech, airway obstruction, neck and shoulder dysfunction, lymphedema, and pain control are important to address.
- Methods: Rehabilitation interventions are patient-specific and aim to prevent, restore, compensate, and palliate symptoms and sequelae of treatment for optimal functioning.
- Results: Central to providing comprehensive interdisciplinary care are the head and neck surgeon, laryngologist, and speech-language pathologist.
- Conclusion: Routine functional assessment, long-term follow-up, and regular communication and coordination among these specialists help maximize quality of life in this challenging patient population.
This panel will provide an update on the latest advances in treating chronic cough from the laryngology delegation of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Our first set of objectives with focus on discussing interdisciplinary approaches, medical/pharmacologic management, and the behavioral therapy for treating chronic cough. We will discuss how to best implement these treatment strategies and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Our second set of objectives will deal with discussing current interventions we utilize to treat chronic cough. These will include vocal fold medialization and the superior laryngeal nerve block. We will discuss expanding indications, technical optimization, and expected outcomes of each treatment.
Our third and final set of objectives will focus on discussing novel innovations in treating chronic cough. We will discuss cough desensitization therapy, vibrotactile stimulation, and selective laryngeal cryotherapy of the supraglottis.
- Background: Medical management of dysphagia has the goals of recommending a safe diet, behavioral modifications to improve the safety of oral intake, and rehabilitating swallowing function through dysphagia therapy. At time, medical management alone is insufficient. This talk review approaches to and goals of surgical management of dysphagia.
- Objectives: (1) Understand the mechanisms of normal swallowing; (2) Know how to perform a thorough exam to understand the anatomical deficits causing dysphagia; and (3) Recognize how to restore missing functionality, if possible.
- Methods: Review the broad categories of surgical management options for dysphagia, as well as the specific surgical approaches available in the dysphagia surgeon’s toolkit.
- Results: Dysphagia can be evaluated in a variety of ways; multidisciplinary approach to surgical management is necessary.
- Conclusion: The most important goal in dysphagia management is prevention of aspiration and its complications – this may occur with or without surgery. Our goal is to correct deficits if possible, or allow time to improve, and closely follow the course of dysphagia.