Clinical interests:
Adult and Pediatric Ear Specialty Care, hearing, balance and, facial nerve disorders, acoustic tumors, and cranial base surgery

Education:
Medical School: Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Residency: Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Fellowship: Michigan Ear Institute

Research Interests: gentamicin ototoxicity, vestibular disorders, Meniere’s Disease

Honors and Awards:
1979 Distinction Honors, University of Michigan
1981 - 1988 Major, 207th Evacuation Hospital, Michigan Army National Guard
1983 Distinguished Service Award, Wayne State University School of Medicine
1986 American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery,
Norwich Eaton Pharmaceutical Research Award
1990 Nicholas Torok Vestibular Research Award, American Neurotologic Society.

Professional Experience:
1999 - Present Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
University of Colorado Health Science Center

1990 - 1999 Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Director, University of Pittsburgh, Center for Hearing and Balance

Membership in professional and scientific societies:
1983 American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
1987 Association for Research in Otolaryngology
1987 Prosper Meniere Society
1990 American Neurotology Society
1992 Barany Society
1995 Fellow American College of Surgeons
2000 American Otologic Society

Selected Publications:
Cass SP, Sekhar LN, Pomeranz S, Hirsch BE, Snyderman CH: Excision of petroclival tumors by a total petrosectomy approach. American Journal of Otology 15(4):474-484, 1994.

Patel SJ, Sekhar LN, Cass SP, Hirsch BE. Combined approaches for resection of extensive glomus jugulare tumors. J Neurosurg 80:1026-1038, 1994.

Chang CYJ, O'Rourke DK, Cass SP. Update on Skull Base Surgery. Clinics of North America 29(3):467-501, June, 1996.

Cass SP, Furman JM, Ankerstjerne JKP, Balaban C, Yetiser S, Aydogan B. Migraine-Related Vestibulopathy. Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology 106:182-189, 1997. ** Chosen by YEAR BOOK OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY to be abstracted in the 1999 Year Book.

Chang CYJ, Cass SP. Management of Facial Nerve Injury Due to Temporal Bone Trauma. American Journal of Otology 20:96-114, 1999.

Furman JM, Cass SP. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. New England Journal of Medicine, 341(21):1590-1596, November, 1999.

Book Chapters
Cass SP. Staging and Outcomes for Meniere's Disease. In: Meniere's Disease, edited by Jeffrey P. Harris, Kugler Publications, The Hague, The Netherlands, pp 239-253, 1998

Monsell EM, Cass SP, Rybak LP., Nedzelski JM Chemical Treatment of the Labyrinth. Brackman DE (ed): Otologic Surgery. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 2000.

Jacob RG, Furman JM, Cass SP. Psychiatric Consequences of Vestibular Dysfunction. Chapter for L. Luxon, A. Martini, J Furman, D. Stephens (Eds): Audiological Medicine, 5/2000.

Books
Furman JM, Cass SP. Vestibular Disorders: A Case-Study Approach. Second Edition Oxford University Press , NY, NY, 2003

Operative Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Myers EN, Carrau RL, Cass SP, Eibling DE, Hirsch BE, Janecka IP, Johnson JT, Kamerer DB, Snyderman CH (eds.), W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1997.