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There's no question that the San Francisco VA Medical Center, with the support of NCIRE, plays a major role in advancing veterans health care through research. The excellence of our NCIRE and SFVAMC investigators, all of whom are UC San Francisco faculty members, is fundamental to our success in developing cutting edge knowledge that will advance medical treatments of veterans and others, both locally and worldwide.

Paul Volberding, MD
Chair, NCIRE Board of Directors
Chief of Medicine, SFVAMC

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Steven W. Cheung, MD

Staff Physician, Surgical Service, SFVAMC
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, UCSF
Email: steven.cheung@va.gov

Treating Communication Disorders

Noise-induced hearing loss, tinnitus (ringing in the ear), and abnormalities in speech production are among some of the most common problems experienced by veterans and the general population. The overall goal of Dr. Cheung's research program is to implement neurophysiologically-based treatment programs for patients with hearing and voice disorders. Principles that guide clinical treatment programs are derived from animal studies. New treatment programs for patients are implemented using both established and newly-constructed learning systems. Dr. Cheung's laboratory also takes advantage of novel technologies such as transcranial magnetic brain stimulation, which uses electromagnetic pulses to induce electrical fields in the brain.

Guo L, Jasiukaitis P, Pitts LH, Cheung SW. 2008. Optimal placement of recording electrodes for quantifying facial nerve compound muscle action potential. Otol Neurotol 29(5):710-3.

Yang I, Aranda D, Han SJ, Chennupati S, Sughrue ME, Cheung SW, Pitts LH, Parsa AT. 2009. Hearing preservation after stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma: A systematic review. J Clin Neurosci (Epub ahead of print).