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Department
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Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement
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Hospital Title
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Associate in Otolaryngology
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Academic Title
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Professor of Otology
and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School
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Phone
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617-355-8852
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617-730-0726
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Email
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Margaret Kenna
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300 Longwood Avenue
LO-367
Boston MA 02115
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Margaret Kenna's research focuses on pediatric otology; currently, she is studying the underlying causes of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), the most common congenital sensory impairment. Her research includes the genetics of hearing loss, especially GJB2 (Connexin 26) and Usher syndrome; anatomic inner ear anomalies and vestibular function testing; and congenital cytomegalovirus infection.
Dr. Kenna's earlier research focused on the causes and treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM). She and her colleagues in Pittsburgh established that medical, not surgical therapy was very effective and should be the initial management option.
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Margaret Kenna received her MD degree from Boston University School of Medicine. She completed an internship and residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University Hospital of Arkansas and a fellowship at in Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She received a MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2005.
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- Dohar JE, Alper CM, Rose EA, Doyle WJ, Casselbrant ML, Kenna MA, Bluestone CD. Treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media with topical ciprofloxacin. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 1998; 107:865-871.
- Kenna MA, Wu BL, Cotanche, DA, Korf BR, Rehm HL. Connexin 26 mutations in patients with sensorineural hearing loss. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2001; 127:1037-1046.
- Wu BL, Kenna MA, Lip V, Irons M, Platt O. Use of a multiplex PCR/sequencing strategy to detect both Connexin 30 (GJB6) 342 kb deletion and connexin 26 (GJB2) mutations in cases of childhood deafness. Am J Med Genet 2003; 121:102-108.
- Kenna MA, Rehm HL, Frangulov A, Yaeger D, Krantz ID. Additional Clinical Manifestations in children with sensorineural hearing loss and biallelic GJB2 mutations: Who should be offered Connexin 26 testing? Am J Med Genet 2007; 143:1560-1566.
- Zhou GW, Gopen Q, Kenna MA. Delineating the hearing loss in children with enlarged vestibular aqueduct. Laryngoscope 2008; 118:2062- 2066.
- Zhou GW, Kenna MA, Stevens K, Licameli G. Assessment of saccular function in children with sensorineural hearing loss. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2009; 135:40-44.
- Cheng AG, Johnston PR, Luz J, Uluer A, Licameli G, Jones DT*, Kenna MA*. Hearing loss in patients with cystic fibrosis. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 2009, In press.
*=equal contribution
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