Dr. Monsell is Professor and
Director of Otology and Neurotological Skull Base Surgery in the Department of
Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. His
clinical interests include surgery of the ear for hearing loss, chronic
infection, congenital malformations, and tumors. His expertise includes cochlear implants, facial paralysis,
acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma), glomus tumor (paraganglioma) and other
tumors of the posterior fossa and skull base. Dr. Monsell is on the staff of the Detroit Medical
Center hospitals, including Harper University Hospital and Children’s Hospital
of Michigan, and St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital. Most middle ear surgery is performed at the ambulatory
surgery center of the Oakland Virtual Medical Center on Lahser Road at 11 Mile
Road in Southfield.
Dr. Monsell’s research
interests are primarily in clinical otology.
He has published research on the use of MRI to measure acoustic neuroma
volume and growth characteristics, on Paget’s disease of bone, and on the
assessment of surgical results in otology.
He is the immediate past Coordinator for Research of the American Academy
of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation and is President-Elect of
the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
Dr. Monsell attended medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduate school (Cell Biology and Neuroscience) at Duke University. His residency training was at Northwestern University in Chicago. His fellowship in Otology (ear diseases) was at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. After residency training, Dr. Monsell practiced for 2 years in the Chicago area. He was on the staff of Hinsdale Hospital and Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Then he moved to Detroit to become director of ear surgery at the Henry Ford Health System, a position he held for 12 years before joining the full time faculty of University Otolaryngology, PC, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and the Detroit Medical Center.
Dr. Monsell has numerous publications in the medical literature on ear diseases and ear surgery. He is a member of the American Otological Society, the Politzer International Society for Ear Surgery, as well as other academic and clinical medical societies. He has been listed in national and regional editions of Best Doctors in America four times for his work in ear surgery. He is married and has two children.
Undergraduate degree: B.A., Biology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
Graduate degree: M.D., University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Ph.D., Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Duke University.
Residency: Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Fellowship: Otology, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Clinical Interests: Ear surgery, lateral skull base surgery, acoustic neuroma, otosclerosis, cochlear implants, facial paralysis.
Research Interests: Otologic diseases, biology of acoustic neuroma.
Patient office phone number:
Bloomfield
Hills Office: (248) 335-9800
Southfield
Office : (248) 357-4151
Harper Professional Building: (313) 831-0961
Academic office phone number (not for
patient care): 313-745-4344
Email address: emonsell@med.wayne.edu
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