The Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

NAME AND TITLE
Americo A. Migliaccio, PhD
Assistant Professor - Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery; Department of Biomedical Engineering;
Laboratory of Vestibular Neurophysiology

EDUCATION
Postdoctoral fellow Vestibular Physiology (JHU, 2003)
PhD Biomedical Engineering (UNSW, 2001)
Master of Biomedical Engineering (UNSW, 1997)
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Honours Class I (USyd, 1995)
Bachelor of Science (USyd, 1993)

RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Linear & nonlinear components of the 3D vestibuloocular reflex.
2. Gentamicin and the vestibuloocular reflex.
3. Cochlear implants and vestibular function.
4. Development of a binocular 3D video oculography system.
5. Vestibular prosthesis.
6. Development of comprehensive data analysis software.

ADMINISTRATIVE TITLE
Assistant Professor

PRINCIPAL HOSPITAL
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Laboratory of Vestibular Neurophysiology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Schubert M.C., Migliaccio A.A.,, Della Santina C.C. Dynamic Visual Acuity during Passive Head Thrusts in Canal Planes J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 2006 (In Press).

2. Migliaccio AA, Della Santina CC, Carey JP, Minor LB, Zee DS.The effect of binocular eye position and head rotation plane on the human torsional vestibuloocular reflex. Vision Res. 2006 Aug;46(16):2475-86.

3. Migliaccio AA, Schubert MC, Clendaniel RA, Carey JP, Della Santina CC, Minor LB, Zee DS.Axis of Eye Rotation Changes with Head-Pitch Orientation during Head Impulses about Earth-Vertical. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2006 Jun;7(2):140-50.

4. Lin FR, Migliaccio AA, Haslwanter T, Minor LB, Carey JP. Angular vestibulo-ocular reflex gains correlate with vertigo control after intratympanic gentamicin treatment for Meniere's disease. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2005 Oct;114(10):777-85.

5. Della Santina C.C., Potyagaylo V., Migliaccio A.A., Minor L.B., Carey J.P. Orientation of human semicircular canals measured by three-dimensional multi-planar CT reconstruction. J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 2005 Sep;6(3):191-206.

6. Park H.J., Migliaccio A.A, Della Santina C.C, Minor L.B., Carey J.P. Search-coil head thrust and caloric tests in Meniere’s disease. Acta. Otolaryngol 2005 Aug;125(8):852-7.

7. Migliaccio A.A., Della Santina C.C., Carey J.P., Niparko J.K. and Minor L.B..The vestibulo-ocular reflex response to head impulses rarely decreases following cochlear implantation. Otol. Neurotol. 2005 Jul;26(4):655-60.

8. Migliaccio A.A., MacDougall H.G., Minor L.B. and Della Santina C.C. Inexpensive system for real-time 3-dimensional video-oculography using a fluorescent marker array. J. Neurosci. Methods 2005 Apr 30;143(2):141-50.

9. Migliaccio A.A., Schubert M.C., Jiradejvong P., Lasker D.M., Clendaniel R.A. and Minor L.B.. The 3-Dimensional Vestibuloocular Reflex Evoked by High-Acceleration Rotations in the Squirrel Monkey. Exp. Brain Res. 2004 Dec;159(4):433-46.

10. Migliaccio A.A., Minor L.B. and Carey J.P.. Vergence-mediated modulation of the human horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex is eliminated by a partial peripheral gentamicin lesion. Exp. Brain Res. 2004 Nov;159(1):92-8.
11. Migliaccio A.A., Cremer P.D., Aw S.T., Halmagyi G.M. Vergence-mediated changes in Listing’s plane do not occur in an eye with superior oblique palsy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2004 Sep;45(9):3043-7.

12. Migliaccio A.A., Halmagyi G.M., McGarvie L.A. and Cremer P.D.. Cerebellar ataxia with bilateral vestibulopathy: description of syndrome and its characteristic clinical sign. Brain. 2004 Feb; 127(2): 280-93.

13. Migliaccio A.A., Cremer P.D., Aw S.T., Halmagyi G.M., Curthoys I.S., Minor L.B. and Todd M.J.. Vergence-mediated changes in the axis of eye rotation during the human vestibulo-ocular reflex can occur independent of eye position. Exp. Brain Res.. 2003 July; 151 (2): 238-248.

14. S.T. Aw, M.J. Todd, L.A. McGarvie, A.A. Migliaccio, G.M. Halmagyi. Effects of Unilateral Vestibular Deafferentation on the Linear Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Evoked by Impulsive Eccentric Roll Rotation. J. Neurophysiol. 2003 Feb;89(2):969-78.

15. Vibert N, MacDougall H.G., de Waele C, Gilchrist D.P.D., Burgess A.M., Sidis A, Migliaccio A, Curthoys I.S., Vidal P.P.. Variability in the control of head movements in seated humans: a link with whiplash injuries? Journal of Physiology. 2001 May 1;532(3):851-68.

16. Cremer P.D., Migliaccio A.A., Pohl D.V., Curthoys I.S., Davies L, Yavor R.A., Halmagyi G.M.. Posterior semicircular canal nystagmus is conjugate and its axis is parallel to that of the canal. Neurology. 2000 May 23;54(10):2016-20.

17. Migliaccio A.A., Todd M.J. Real-time rotation vectors. Australas. Phys. Eng. Sci. Med.. 1999 Jun; 22(2):73-80.

18. Cremer P.D., Migliaccio A.A., Halmagyi G.M., Curthoys I.S.. Vestibulo-ocular reflex pathways in internuclear ophthalmoplegia. Ann Neurol. 1999 Apr;45(4):529-33.