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MD, MA, FACS</h3> <p class="profile__title" itemprop="jobTitle">Physician-Surgeon, Mass Eye and Ear </br> Professor of Otolaryngology鈥揌ead and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School</p> </div> <p class="profile__image"> <img alt="" itemprop="image" srcset="/assets/images/contributors/neil_bhattacharyya_advances.png, /assets/images/contributors/neil_bhattacharyya_advances_2x.png 2x" src="/assets/images/contributors/neil_bhattacharyya_advances.png"> </p> </div> </div> </aside> <div class="layout-columns__main -padding--vertical -padding--horizontal" dcrname ="iwDCR0_101200"> <div class="layout-columns__main__content"> <h2 class="heading-h4">Posts by Neil Bhattacharyya, MD, MA, FACS</h2> <ul class="content-tease__list"> <li class="content-tease__item"> <div class="content-tease" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <h3 class="content-tease__heading" itemprop="name"> <a href="/otolaryngology/journal.aspx?id=2109" itemprop="url"> Sleep Disorders Tally $94.9 Billion in Health Care Costs Each Year</a> </h3> <p itemprop="description"> <p>Mass Eye and Ear researchers Neil Bhattacharyya, MD, MA, FACS, and Phillip Huyett, MD, found that sleep disorders are associated with significantly higher rates of health care utilization, conservatively placing an additional $94.9 billion in costs each year to the United States health care system.</p></p> <p class="content-tease__related"> <a href="/otolaryngology/specialty.aspx?id=1016" itemprop="relatedLink">Otolaryngology</a> </p> <p class="content-metadata"> <span class="content-metadata__media -journal">Journal</span> <time class="date" datetime="2021-12-17" itemprop="datePublished">December 17, 2021</time> </p> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </section> <section class="-padding--vertical -padding--horizontal"> <div class="content-container -width--medium -centered"> <h2>Biography</h2> <p> <p>Dr. Neil Bhattacharyya joined Mass Eye and Ear to see adult comprehensive otolaryngology and sinus patients. He earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed a residency in otolaryngology鈥揾ead and neck surgery at Mass Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School. His clinical interests include endoscopic sinus surgery, obstructive sleep apnea, and sinusitis.</p></p> </div> </section> <div class="content-container -width--xwide -centered specialty-block__wrapper" id="specialty-block"> <style> #specialty-block .specialty-block__image { /* 540px */ background-image: url(/assets/raw/specialty-block/otolaryngology-2-2400.png); } only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and (min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and (-moz-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and (-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1), only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and (min-resolution: 192dpi), only screen and (min-resolution: 2dppx) { #specialty-block .specialty-block__image { /* 1080 width */ background-image: url(/assets/raw/specialty-block/otolaryngology-2-1200.png); } } /* </style> <span class="specialty-block__image"></span> <div class="specialty-block"> <h2 class="section-heading">Mass Eye and Ear/Mass General Otolaryngology鈥揌ead and Neck Surgery</h2> A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear/Massachusetts General Hospital combines the expertise of highly specialized ear, nose, and throat physicians, audiologists, speech-language pathologists and auxiliary health care professionals to provide care for patients with problems affecting the ear, nose, throat, head and neck areas. 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Varvares, MD, FACS, is one of the largest otolaryngology鈥揾ead and neck surgery (OHNS) departments in the country, with more than 70 physicians staffed at 15 locations in the greater Boston area. <div class="specialty-block__meta"> <div class="specialty-block__links"> <h3 class="specialty-block__links__heading">Related Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.masseyeandear.org/otolaryngology">Department of Otolaryngology鈥揌ead and Neck Surgery (OHNS)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.masseyeandear.org/research/otolaryngology">OHNS Research</a></li> <li><a href="https://oto.hms.harvard.edu/">Harvard OHNS</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="specialty-block__logos"> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.masseyeandear.org/"><img alt="Mass Eye and Ear" src="/assets/raw/specialty-block/MEE-Logo-2021-3.png"></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="-padding--horizontal -padding--vertical -background--white"> <style> #email-signup { /* 540px */ background-image: 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