Shawn D. Newlands, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS
Wiess Professor and Chairman
Head and Neck Surgery

Rhinology
General Otolaryngology

Dr. Newlands graduated with highest honors from the University of California in Santa Barbara with an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry – Molecular Biology. He received a Masters degree in Chemistry from the same institution. Dr. Newlands attended medical and graduate school at UTMB and was one of the first graduates from the combined MD-PhD program here with a PhD in Neuroscience. He continued his clinical training with an internship in General Surgery at Virginia-Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington followed by a residency in Otolaryngology at the University of Washington in Seattle. After one year on faculty at the University of Washington, Dr. Newlands served on the faculty of the division of Otolaryngology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center for three years. He joined our Department in 1999. He received his Masters in Business Administration from The University of Texas in Austin in 2002. He was named Department Chairman in September, 2003.

Dr. Newlands clinical interests include head and neck oncologic surgery and reconstruction, sinus surgery, and anterior cranial base surgery. His research interest is in vestibular anatomy and physiology, recovery from vestibular injury, vestibular control of head unrestrained gaze. His research is currently funded by the NIDCD.

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Recent references:

Newlands SD, Samudrala S, Katzenmeyer WK. Surgical Treatment of Gunshot Injuries to the Mandible. Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg. 129: 129-244; 2003.

Rosen EJ, Newlands SD, Rampy BA. Pathology quiz case: Cribriform-morular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma. Arch Otolarynogol. 129: 679-681; 2003.

Newlands SD, Perachio AA. Central Projections of the Vestibular Nerve: A Review and Single Fiber Study in the Mongolian Gerbil. Brain Res. Bull. 60: 475-495; 2003.

Newlands SD, Divi V, Stewart CM. Mixed Myxoid/Round Cell Liposarcoma of the Scalp. Am. J. Otolaryngol. 24:121-127; 2003.

Newlands SD, Purcell IM, Kevetter GA, Perachio AA. Central projections of the utricular nerve in the gerbil. J. Comp. Neurol. 452:11-23; 2002.

Angelaki DE, Newlands SD, Dickman JD. Inactivation of semicircular canals causes adaptive increases in otolith-driven tilt responses. J. Neurophysiol. 87: 1635-1640; 2002

Newlands SD, Hesse SE, Haque A, Angelaki DE. Head unrestrained gaze shifts after unilateral labyrinthectomy. Exp. Brain Res. 140: 25-33; 2001

Rosen E, Newlands SD, Patel J, Kalia A, Freidman NR. Reactivated laryngeal coccioidomycosis. Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg. 125(1): 120-1; 2001.

Blackledge FA, Newlands SD. Blastomycosis of the Petrous Apex. Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg. 124:347-349; 2001.

Angelaki DE, Newlands SD, Dickman JD. Primate translational vestibulo-ocular reflexes. IV. Changes after unilateral labyrinthectomy. J. Neurophys. 83: 3005-3018; 2000.

Childress C, Newlands SD. Utility of panoramic radiographs after mandible fracture repair. Laryngoscope 109: 1269-72; 1999.

Dye F, Frank T, Newlands SD, Dickman JD. Regional development of hair cell regeneration in the pigeon utricle following intraotic administration of streptomycin. Hearing Res. 133: 17-26; 1999.

Newlands SD, Ling L, Phillips JO, Siebold C, Duckert L, Fuchs AF. Short and Long Term Consequences of Canal Plugging on Gaze Shifts in the Rhesus Monkey. I. Effects on Gaze Stabilization. J. Neurophys. 81: 2119-2130; 1999.

Newlands SD, Weymuller EA. Endoscopic treatment of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. Amer. J. Rhinology 13: 213-219; 1999.

Frank T, Dye F, Newlands SD, Dickman JD. Hair cell regeneration in the pigeon utricle. Laryngoscope 109: 356-361; 1999.

Angelaki DE, McHenry MQ, Dickman JD, Newlands SD, Hess BJM. Computation of inertial motion: Neural strategies to resolve ambiguous sensory information. J. Neurosci. 19: 316-327; 1999.

Angelaki DE, McHenry MQ, Newlands SD, Dickman JD. Functional organization of primate translational vestibulo-ocular reflexes and effects of unilateral labyrinthectomy. Ann. New York Acad. of Sci. 1999; 871: 136-147.

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