Dr. Konstantina Stankovic

So now you are bringing

sterile tissue into a super dirty environment that you're describing that's rich in these microbes.

You sew it all together, artery to artery, vein to vein, nerve to nerve, you close it up and it heals beautifully.

Most of the time and people do not need extra antibiotics than what's typically prescribed for every surgery, just a short perioperative course.

So, indeed, there's...

area of the body, the head and neck, which is in our turf, that's what otolaryngology head and neck surgery is, is super, uh, inspiring and really motivating to understand and, uh, really ripe for even deeper discoveries than what have been done to accelerate progress, not only in the head and neck region, but throughout the body.

That's a great question, and I agree with you.

I love to listen to music like you.

I also love to sing.

I used to play the piano.

I hope to get back to it.

It's been a very busy life, but I really love being immersed in music.

In fact, that's one of the main reasons that I pursued this field.

It was my love of music and the appreciation of how important it is for human connection.

And it's for a reason that no...

culture has ever existed without music, and that dates back to 40 millennia.

So music perception and language have been so essential for us as humans.

That's unique to us.

We as clinicians know that auditory training is very helpful.

For example, we talked about people sometimes needing cochlear implants.