Ricardo Carrau, MD
Professor
Otolaryngology
Academic contact
Academic information
- Department: Otolaryngology
Research interests
- Surgical Training and Surgical Simulators
- Surgical Anatomy
- Telemedicine
- Clinical Outcome Studies (Skull Base
- Head and Neck
- Swallowing Disorders
About
Biography
I am an otolaryngologist/head and neck surgeon with clinical and research interests in head oncology, swallowing disorders, salivary gland disorders and sialendoscopy, endoscopic sinus surgery and endoscopic and open skull base surgery. I joined the faculty of Ohio State’s Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery in 2011 as a tenured professor, director of the Comprehensive Skull Base Surgery Program and co-director of the Anatomy Laboratory Toward Visuospatial Innovation in Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery (ALT-VISION), a research and education lab.
In 2014, the OSUCCC – James received a five-year, $11-million Specialized Program of Research Excellence grant from the National Cancer Institute to study thyroid cancer. I am co-leading one of the projects being supported by the grant: a study that attempts to identify biomarkers of damage to salivary glands and find new ways of protecting them from damage they can incur during thyroid cancer treatment.
I have been a doctor for more than 35 years, and served in the Air Force Reserve for five as a major in the medical corps. I have published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, and edited, co-edited or co-written more than a dozen medical books. I was raised in Puerto Rico and is bilingual in English and Spanish. I also have conversational skills in Portuguese and speaks a little Italian and French.
Credentials
Education
- Fellowship - Otolaryngology, Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
7/1/1989 - 6/30/1990 - Residency - Otolaryngology
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University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR
7/1/1982 - 6/30/1987 - Internship - Internal Medicine
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VA Medical Center-San Juan, Puerto Rico GME, San Juan, PR, Puerto Rico
7/1/1981 - 6/30/1982 - Doctor of Medicine (MD)
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University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, PR, Puerto Rico
8/8/1977 - 6/5/1981
Certification
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American Board of Otolaryngology
10/9/1987
Research
Research interests
- Surgical Training and Surgical Simulators
- Surgical Anatomy
- Telemedicine
- Clinical Outcome Studies (Skull Base
- Head and Neck
- Swallowing Disorders
- Salivary Gland Disorders)
- Development of Endonasal Reconstructive Techniques