Director of Stanford Initiative to Cure Smell and Taste Loss
Professor of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Director of Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
Director of Neurorhinology - Advanced Sinus and Skull Base Surgery Fellowship
Alyssa Azevedo, NP
Nurse Practitioner
The best doctors to help with loss or distortion of smell and taste depend on why you have developed this problem.
For many common causes, including COVID-19 and other upper respiratory infections, trauma, medications, toxin exposure, endocrine and metabolic disorders and a host of other underlying medical issues, Dr. Patel and her clinical team are the experts who can properly diagnose and direct treatment.
If you have other symptoms of Long-COVID that you need help with, Dr. Patel works closely with Stanford’s Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (PACS) clinic, who have received national recognition and funding to help patients still affected by this illness.
For patients who have developed smell and taste loss due to sinusitis or a sinus tumor or mass, Dr. Patel and her rhinology colleagues in the Stanford Sinus Center are the best doctors to help you with your issues.
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck surgery (OHNS)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)
For patients who have developed smell and taste loss due to a tumor or mass that has originated at the skull base, or grown to involve the skull base (the bone between the sinus cavity and the brain above), Dr. Patel and her rhinology and neurosurgical colleagues in the Stanford Skull Base Program are the best doctors to help you with your issues.
Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery
Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery
Some moderate amount of smell and taste loss can occur normally with aging, but when the loss is severe, this can be the earliest sign of neurodegenerative disease. Common diseases of this type are Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Lewy body dementia, and others.
We have an excellent Neurology department here at Stanford, with programs in healthy aging, REM sleep disorders, and different neurodegenerative diseases, with world class doctors and scientists with whom we aim to collaborate with to move forward our understanding of the link between loss of smell and taste and the development of these diseases.
Associate Professor (Research) of Neurology and Neurological Sciences (Neurology Research)
Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor of Neurology and the Neurological Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Clinical Professor, Adult Neurology
Clinical Professor, Adult Neurology
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
The Stanford Initiative to Cure Smell and Taste Loss is part of the Research Division within Stanford's Department of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery