Miscellaneous Gifts-Otolaryngology

School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

IU School of Medicine’s Department of Otolaryngology boasts expertise in hearing disorders, sinus disease, skull-base tumors, head and neck cancer, facial plastic surgery, and reconstructive surgery. In recent years, the department has doubled its faculty, expanded its residency program, and ranked in the top 25 for National Institutes of Health funding. Your gifts support the department’s mission to train outstanding physicians and enhance ear, nose, and throat care through research and practice.

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Miscellaneous Gifts-Otolaryngology

School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

IU School of Medicine’s Department of Otolaryngology boasts expertise in hearing disorders, sinus disease, skull-base tumors, head and neck cancer, facial plastic surgery, and reconstructive surgery. In recent years, the department has doubled its faculty, expanded its residency program, and ranked in the top 25 for National Institutes of Health funding. Your gifts support the department’s mission to train outstanding physicians and enhance ear, nose, and throat care through research and practice.

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Two physicians in the Department of Otolaryngology examine a scan on a computer screen.

Your gift provides a flexible resource that the department can use in a variety of ways to enhance clinical care, education, and research.

Offering a more comprehensive experience for residents and fellows is one way that philanthropic support for this fund could be used. By the time they graduate, a resident will have participated in more than 2,500 cases in four distinct hospital settings. They will have mastered complex surgical techniques and had the opportunity to gain global health experience in Kenya through an IU-led consortium there. Each resident also completes an annual research project mentored by a faculty member. Gifts to this fund could be used to support these and other opportunities. Your generosity could also help us recruit top-tier talent to our residency program, which often plays a central role in determining where a physician will eventually practice.

Your generosity could also help the department take initial steps in upgrading essential facilities, such as the temporal bone lab. The space is heavily utilized to teach future ear, nose, and throat surgeons how to drill delicate bone and perform precise surgeries involving the skull base and sinuses. After 30 years of service, the facility needs retrofitting and upgrades.

Gifts may also provide funding for research, especially pilot projects where faculty are trying to obtain exploratory data. Such data can be the basis for an application for long-term grant support.

These are only a few examples of the impact that you can have when you make a gift. We’re grateful to have partners like you helping us prepare outstanding physicians, conduct research, and improve patient care.

Important Disclosures

Please note, the name and purpose of the fund displayed on this page constitute the authorized description of the fund by the Indiana University Foundation, Inc. Your gift supports the fund as described herein.

Gifts will be administered by the Indiana University Foundation, Inc. which represents Indiana University, including the IU School of Medicine. This is not a gift to Indiana University Health, and the Indiana University Health Foundation will not play a role in administering these accounts.