Brent A. Senior, MD, Nat and Sheila Harris Distinguished Professor and Chief of Division of Rhinology, Allergy, and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery in the Department of Otolyaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, served as consultant on the study’s data and helped formulate ideas and conclusions.
Brent A. Senior, MD, Nat and Sheila Harris Distinguished Professor and Chief of Division of Rhinology, Allergy, and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery in the Department of Otolyaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, is a co-author of a new study that found a possible explanation for the brisk pace at which the COVID-19 infection spreads to the lungs in some patients, shortly after the symptoms appear.
An article detailing the results was published recently in Rhinology Online, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the European Rhinologic Society. Saikat Basu, PhD, of South Dakota State University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering is the study’s lead author.
Dr. Senior served as consultant on the study’s data and helped formulate ideas and conclusions. In addition, scans from previous research done at UNC were used to help perform the computational fluid dynamics.
Read more about the study here.