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Assistant Professor
Mass. Eye and Ear/ Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Alicia M. Quesnel is an otologist and neurotologist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA. Her clinical practice focuses on surgery for otosclerosis (stapedectomy), cochlear implant surgery, chronic ear disease (including cholesteatoma and repair of tympanic membrane perforations), and skull base surgeries, including vestibular schwannoma, spinal fluid leak repair, and management of intratemporal facial nerve conditions.
Dr. Alicia Quesnel's research focuses on the histopathology of the human temporal bone, particularly related to otosclerosis and post-cochlear implantation pathology. In 2021, she became the Director of the Masachusetts Eye and Ear Otopathology Laboratory, which procures and processes human inner ear specimens and houses one of the world’s largest and most well-curated human temporal bone collections. The Laboratory serves a number of internal investigators with independent research programs at Mass. Eye and Ear, as well as performs several external collaborative projects each year, and hosts visiting post-doctoral fellows/trainees. She also works with NIDCD National Temporal Bone Hearing and Balance Pathology Resource Registry, which is based at Mass. Eye and Ear and directed by Dr. Felipe Santos, to continue prospective enrollment of donors and management of the national online database of human specimens.
She has been a faculty member in multiple temporal bone surgical technique courses including those with a focus on endoscopic ear surgery, with roles including director, co-director, lecturer, surgical instructor, guest instructor, or live surgery demonstrations. She co-directed Advanced Techniques in Cochlear Implantation Course for Pediatric and Neurotology Fellows at Mass. Eye and Ear in 2017 and 2019. She directed the Pre- World Congress in Endoscopic Ear Surgery Workshops, including the Hands-On Endoscopic Ear Surgery Workshop and Live Surgery Demonstration and Discussion Workshop in June 2019.