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Department
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Audiology/Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement
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Hospital Title
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Director of Diagnostic Audiology
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Academic Title
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Instructor of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School
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Phone
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617-355-6461
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Fax
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617-730-0320
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Email
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Brian Fligor
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Location
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300 Longwood Avenue
LO-367
Boston MA 02115
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Brian Fligor's primary research interests are investigating causes of acquired hearing loss from ototoxicity and noise, particularly in the pediatric population. Dr. Fligor's work on potential for noise-induced hearing loss from using portable media players with headphones has received considerable popular media attention, including being spoofed on David Letterman's show in 2005. Additional research not associated with music-induced hearing loss includes causes of hearing loss from medical interventions, genetics, and environmental factors. Efforts to date have identified specific risk factors for sensorineural hearing loss in graduates of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Dr. Fligor is a member of the Children's Oncology Group (COG) and assisted oncologists at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute study ototoxicity in children treated with cisplatin chemotherapy for osteosarcoma; based on this work, COG is reviewing new ototoxicity grading scales for reporting of adverse events from chemotherapy. Dr. Fligor is also a member of the Metals Epidemiology Research Group at Harvard School of Public Health, investigating gene-environment interactions and development in children living in an EPA Superfund site in northeast Oklahoma.
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Brian Fligor received his Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biomedical Engineering in 1997 and his Doctor of Science (ScD) in Audiology in 2002, both from Boston University in Boston, MA. He completed his Audiology Clinical Fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston 2001-2002 and a postdoctoral position at Children's Hospital Boston 2002-2004.
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- Lewis MJ, DuBois SG, Fligor B, Li X, Goorin A, Grier HE. Ototoxicity in children treated for osteosarcoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009; 52(3):387-391.
- Fligor BJ, Neault MW, Mullen CH, Feldman HA, Jones DT. Factors associated with sensorineural hearing loss among survivors of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy. Pediatrics 2005; 115(6):1519-1528.
- Fligor BJ, Cox LC. Output levels of commercially available portable compact disc players and the potential risk to hearing. Ear Hear 2004; 25(6):513-527.
- Oxenham AJ, Fligor BJ, Mason CR, Kidd G Jr. Informational masking and musical training. J Acoust Soc Am 2003; 114(3):1543-1549.
- Litovsky RY, Fligor BJ, Tramo MJ. Functional role of the human inferior colliculus in binaural hearing. Hear Res 2002; 165:177-188.
- Fligor BJ, Cox LC, Nesathurai S. Subjective hearing loss and history of traumatic brain injury exhibits abnormal brainstem auditory evoked response: a case report. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2002; 83(1):141-143.
- Litovsky RY, Hawley ML, Fligor BJ, Zurek PM. Failure to unlearn the precedence effect. J Acoust Soc Am 2000; 108(5 Pt 1):2345-2352.
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Brian Fligor's Curriculum Vitae
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