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Appointments: |
(504) 896-2141 |
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Location: |
Children’s Hospital, Main Campus |
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Specialists: |
Moisés Arriaga, MD
Herbert Marks, MD
Tammy Crabtree, MCD, CCC-A
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The Cochlear Implant Center is a collaborative service between Children’s Hospital and the LSU Department of Otolaryngology. The Center will work closely with a variety of resources to aid in providing services to children receiving cochlear implants.
A multidisciplinary team of otolaryngologists, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists will work together to assess a child’s need for a cochlear implant and will help the child adjust to the cochlear implant following surgery.
Cochlear implantation is a surgical intervention which is highly successful in restoring hearing, permitting mainstream education and full participation in academic, linguistic, social and economic advantages available to normal hearing children.
A cochlear implant has two basic components: a surgically-placed internal implanted portion and an external component. While cochlear implants first became available in the mid-1980s, they have become an accepted standard of care for children who have severe to profound hearing loss.
Moisés Arriaga, MD, F.A.C.S., Medical Director
Medical Director of the Cochlear Implant Center, Children's Hospital
Director of Neurotology at the LSU Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Professional School:
Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI
Specialty Training:
Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
House Ear Clinic and House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Special Interests:
Hearing reconstructive surgery, surgically implanted hearing devices, skull base tumors, and balance disorders in children and adolescents
Herbert Marks, MD
Senior Surgeon of the Cochlear Implant Center, LSU Health Sciences Center
Professional School:
LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Specialty Training:
LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Special Interests:
Cochlear implants, chronic ear surgery and reconstructive ear surgery
Tammy H. Crabtree, MCD, CCC-A
Clinical Audiologist
Director, Cochlear Implant Center, Children’s Hospital
Clinical Instructor, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Professional School:
B.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Specialty Training:
M.C.D., LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Special Interests:
Newborn hearing assessment, cochlear implant assessment, programming and rehabilitation