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MicrotiaCare.com is the patient education website for the Congenital Ear Center at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Our Goals
Provide the most comprehensive "One Stop Shop" to coordinate all of your microtia / atresia care from hearing and speech assessments to surgery for both hearing and microtia reconstruction.
Provide a road map that can help you to navigate all of the diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the years ahead.
About Dr. Noel Jabbour
Dr. Jabbour is trained in Pediatric Otolaryngology with special emphasis in microtia and atresia surgery and treatment of hypernasality (too much air escape from the nose during speech).
Dr. Jabbour completed medical school at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, residency in Otolaryngolgy--Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Minnesota, and fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University. He has been on faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hopsital of Pittsburgh since 2013.
He is the director of the Congenital Ear Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the home clinic for MicrotiaCare.com and a member of the Cleft-Craniofacial Team.
Dr. Jabbour is passionate about education for both his trainees and for patients and their families. He has a Masters of Science in Medical Education, and currently serves as the fellowship program director for pediatric otolaryngology and the associate residency program director for otolaryngology at UPMC.
Video of Dr. Jabbour explaining the process of Ear Reconstruction from diagnosis to treatment and from hearing to microtia reconstruction. In this video, he explains also how he has developed innovative tools for 3D printing that improve outcomes for his patients and why he loves caring for patients with microtia and aural atresia.
Sight & Sound Bites is an educational community outreach program of the Eye & Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh, PA.
Video of Dr. Jabbour explaining a new approach to bilateral microtia reconstruction, addressing both ears at the same time. This is one of the first such procedures performed in the United States. With this approach, both ears can be reconstructed from rib cartilage and Osia implants can be placed for hearing in only two surgical procedures. More information can also be found in this Eye and Ear Foundation article.
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