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Rodney P. Lusk, M.D. Joins Boys Town National Research Hospital and Lied Learning and Technology Center

Omaha NE – Patrick E. Brookhouser, M.D., Director of Boys Town Health Care Services, has announced the appointment of Rodney P. Lusk, M.D. as Director of the Boys Town Ear, Nose & Throat Institute and Director of the Cochlear Implant Center at the Lied Learning and Technology Center for Childhood Deafness and Vision Disorders.

Dr. Lusk specializes in pediatric cochlear implants and the treatment of pediatric chronic sinusitis. He has written and edited numerous refereed journal articles and books on these subjects. He also developed many of the instruments currently used in pediatric endoscopic sinus surgery.

Dr. Lusk received his medical degree from the University of Missouri and completed his residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and a Fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He served as Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology at St. Louis Children’s Hospital for 18 years and was a Professor at Washington University.

Among Dr. Lusk’s activities and offices in numerous national and international organizations, he served as past President of the American Society of Pediatric

Otolaryngology and past President of the American Broncho-Esophagological Association. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Service award given by the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

Boys Town National Research Hospital was established in 1977 by Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home. The Hospital is an international leader in research and treatment of hearing and vision loss and related communication disorders. Physicians and clinicians annually care for more than 30,000 children from across the U.S.