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Anna H. Messner, M.D.
Academic Appointments
- Professor - Med Center Line, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)
- Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Respiratory Specialties and ENT 730 Welch Rd 1st Floor Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 497-8841 Fax (650) 498-2734Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Tel (650) 725-6500Administrative Contact April A. Prasad Administrative Associate Email Tel Work 650.724.9697Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Snapshot
Clinical Focus
- Otolaryngology
- Pediatric
- Otolaryngology/Head&Neck
Administrative Appointments
- Vice Chair, Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery (2004 - present)
- Chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (1998 - 2004)
Honors and Awards
- Otolaryngology Resident Advocate Award, Stanford Dept of Otolaryngology (2004, 2006)
- Stanford Otolaryngology Resident Teacher of the Year Award, Stanford Dept of Otolaryngology (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)
- AOA, Alpha Omega Alpha (1988)
Professional Education
| Board Certification: | Otolaryngology, American Board of Otolaryngology (1995) |
| Fellowship: | Hospital for Sick Children, Canada (1995) |
| Fellowship: | Hospital for Sick Children, Canada (1995) |
| Residency: | Wake Forest Medical Center, NC (1994) |
| Internship: | Wake Forest Medical Center, NC (1994) |
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Dr. Anna Messner currently has research projects in several areas of Pediatric Otolaryngology. In utero cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a well known cause of hearing loss in infants and children. The sensorineural hearing loss is often delayed in onset and is frequently progressive. Since 2003 Dr. Messner has been collaborating with Dr. Corry Dekker of Stanford pediatric infectious disease to screen 20,000 newborns for CMV. Once the infants born with CMV are identified, this NIH-sponsored research study will follow them with serial hearing evaluations to detect any hearing loss. It is anticipated that all 20,000 newborns will be enrolled by the spring of 2007 and plans are being made to follow the CMV+ babies until they reach the age of 6.
Another area of research interest for Dr. Messner is recovery after tonsillectomy. She has conducted several prospective, randomized studies looking at the effects of various tonsillectomy techniques, the effects of intraoperative steroids, and the effects of various pain medications on post-tonsillectomy recovery. Recently, many of Dr. Messner’s tonsillectomy patients have participated in a collaborative study with the pediatric anesthesiologists looking at the area between the vocal cords and just below the vocal cords. Measurements from digital photos of the larynx will be used to help patients undergoing surgery in the future by predicting the optimum size of endotracheal tube based on the age and height of the patient.
Other ongoing studies under Dr. Messner’s guidance include “Unilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis after Cardiac Surgery,” “ Newborn hearing screening in children with cleft palate,” “Comparison of double pH probe versus laryngeal endoscopy for evaluation of gastropharyngeal reflux,” “Non-parameningeal rhabdomyosarcoma,” and “The effect of steroids on resolution of symptoms in patients with neck abscesses.”
Publications
- Hearing impairment and poverty: The epidemiology of ear disease in Peruvian schoolchildren. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2010; (2): 272-277
- Otorrhea in infants with tympanostomy tubes before and after surgical repair of a cleft palate. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2009; (8): 748-51
- Newborn hearing screening in infants with cleft palates. Otol Neurotol. 2008; (6): 812-5
- Pediatric tympanoplasty: factors affecting success. Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008; (1): 64-8
- Letters of recommendation to an otolaryngology/head and neck surgery residency program: their function and the role of gender. Laryngoscope. 2008; (8): 1335-44
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