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Zara M. Patel, MD

@zarapatel_md

Stanford Director of Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Sinus Surgeon, Olfaction (Smell) Expert. Love travel, food/wine/drinks, tandem biking with the husbear.

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Does it feel like AI can do anything? There have been multiple studies showing AI performing better than human doctors at diagnostic and patient counseling tasks. But is this always the case? In a niche surgical sub-sub-specialty like #rhinology —not yet! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39776758/

Does it feel like AI can do anything? There have been multiple studies showing AI performing better than human doctors at diagnostic and patient counseling tasks. But is this always the case? In a niche surgical sub-sub-specialty like #rhinology —not yet!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39776758/
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Always such an honor to have your peers recognize your work and dedication to excellent patient care. To all my colleagues who have entrusted their patients to me for sinus surgery, sinus tumor and cancer surgery, smell loss and more, thank you for your confidence in me! 🙏🏼❤️

Always such an honor to have your peers recognize your work and dedication to excellent patient care. 
To all my colleagues who have entrusted their patients to me for sinus surgery, sinus tumor and cancer surgery, smell loss and more, thank you for your confidence in me! 🙏🏼❤️
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👏🏼👏🏼Kudos to ckos (Chrissi Kelly on Smell) for sharing her story with The Gaurdian and to Professor Claire Hopkins for taking the leap to be the first to begin offering #prp injections to patients to treat smell loss in the UK, five years after our first injection Stanford Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery ! theguardian.com/science/2025/f…

👏🏼👏🏼Kudos to <a href="/ChrissiKelly/">ckos (Chrissi Kelly on Smell)</a> for sharing her story with The Gaurdian and to <a href="/SnotSurgeon/">Professor Claire Hopkins</a> for taking the leap to be the first to begin offering #prp injections to patients to treat smell loss in the UK, five years after our first injection <a href="/StanfordOHNS/">Stanford Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery</a> !

theguardian.com/science/2025/f…
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This is one of the biggest reasons why I’m developing a truly objective smell test! Why Sense of Smell Could Be a Marker for Mortality Risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… #olfaction #smell #dementia #Alzheimers #Parkinson Stanford Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Stanford Medicine Stanford University

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Thanks Amber Luong and American Rhinologic Society for featuring our work on the latest Scope It Out podcast!We discuss the Long term outcomes of PRP injections for Post-Viral Smell Loss. Link is here for those that want to take a listen: scopeitoutpodcast.com

Thanks Amber Luong  and <a href="/AmRhinoSociety/">American Rhinologic Society</a>  for featuring our work on the latest Scope It Out podcast!We discuss the Long term outcomes of PRP injections for Post-Viral Smell Loss.
Link is here for those that want to take a listen: 
scopeitoutpodcast.com
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Read our latest publication here - first ever published *early* intervention that could potentially prevent the development of LongCOVID smell loss. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40444408/ #smell #smellloss #lossofsmellandtaste #covid19 #longcovid #paxlovid Stanford Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Stanford Medicine

Read our latest publication here - first ever published *early* intervention that could potentially prevent the development of LongCOVID smell loss.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40444408/

#smell #smellloss #lossofsmellandtaste
#covid19 #longcovid #paxlovid 
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