Carol Bier-Laning, MD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Bier-Laning was born and raised in Southern Wisconsin. She attended the University of Wisconsin in Madision, WI, earning a BS in Medical Technology. Dr. Bier-Laning attended the University of Colorado Medical School, and completed her Otolaryngology Residency at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Bier-Laning went on to complete two years of fellowship training at The Ohio State University which included a one year clinical fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology under the mentorship of Dr. David Schuller and a second year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Jessie L-S Au.
Carol M. Bier-Laning, M.D. serves as the section chief of the Otolaryngology Section at Hines VA Medical Center where she also sits on the Cancer Committee. She is active in departmental affairs relating to resident and faculty research including coordinating the annual Girgis resident research competition in January of each year.
Dr. Bier-Laning divides her time between her clinical work at Hines VA Medical Center where she sees patients and her research work in the laboratory of her mentor Dr. Manuel Diaz located in the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center at Loyola. She was recently awarded funding from the Loyola Research Funding Committee for her work entitled: Apoptosis signaling causes genomic instability leading to loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in a tumor, near-diploid cell line.
Special interests:
Head and neck oncology
Resident research education
Nutrition in head and neck cancer patients
Mechanism of LOH in head and neck cancer
Mechanism of invasion and regulation of apoptosis in head and neck cancer
Academic background:
Board Certified in Otolaryngology
Fellowship (Head and Neck Oncology): The Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH
Residency (Otolaryngology): University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Medical School: University of Colorado
Undergraduate: University of Wisconsin
Selected Articles & Publications:
Cooper DMF, Bier-Laning CM, Halford MK, Ahlijanian MK, Zahniser NR. Dopamine, acting through D-2 receptors, inhibits rat striatal adenylate cyclase by a GTP-dependant process. Mol Pharmacol 1986;29:113-119.
Zahniser NR, Parker DC, Bier-Laning CM, Miller JA, Gerber JG, Nies AS. Comparison between the effects of aging on antagonist and agonist interactions with beta-adrenergic receptors on human mononuclear and polymorphonuclear leukocyte membranes. J Gerontol 1988;43:151-157.
Zahniser NR, Bier-Laning CM, Gerber JG, Nies AS. Timolol-induced up regulation of polymorphonuclear leukocyte ?2-adrenergic receptors in the elderly. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1989;45:469-75.
Hitzemann R, Dains K, Bier-Laning CM, Zahniser NR. On the selection of mice for haloperidol response and non-response. Psychopharmacol 1991;103:244-250.
Bier-Laning CM, Adams GL. Patterns of recurrence after CO2 laser excision of intraoral squamous cell carcinoma. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1995; 121 :1239-1244.
Bier-Laning CM, Hom DB, Gapany M, Manivel JC, Duvall AJ III. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: Management options based on long-term follow-up. Laryngoscope 1995;105:1197-1201.
Schuller DE, Bier-Laning CM. Resection of lesions of the base of the tongue. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer 1996;4:873-878.
Schuller DE, Mountain RE, Nicholson RE, Bier-Laning CM, Powers B, Repasky
M. One stage reconstruction of partial laryngopharyngeal defects.
Laryngoscope 1997;107:247-253.
Schuller DE, Bier-Laning CM. Laryngeal carcinoma nodal metastases and their
management. Otolaryngol Clinics North Am 1997;30:167-177.
Bier-Laning CM. Surgical Complications. In: Cummings CW, Fredrickson JM, Harker LA, Krause CJ, Richardson MA, Schuller DE, editors. Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby; 1997:1811-1820.
Schuller DE, Bier-Laning CM, Sharma PK, Siegle RJ, Pellegrini AE, Karanfilov B, Bellisari G, Miller R, Young DC. Tissue conserving surgery for prognosis, treatment, and function preservation. Laryngoscope 1998;108:1599-1604.
Danahey DG. Tobin EJ. Schuller DE. Bier-Laning CM. Weghorst CM. Lang JC. p16 mutation frequency and clinical correlation in head and neck cancer. Acta Oto-Laryngologica 1999;119:285-8.
Kim LT, Wu J, Bier-Laning CM, Dollar BT, Turnage RH. Focal adhesion kinase up-regulation and signaling in activated keratinocytes. J Surg Res 2000;91:65-69.
Bier-Laning CM. Surgical Complications. In: Cummings CW, Fredrickson JM, Harker LA, Krause CJ, Richardson MA, Schuller DE, editors. Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby; in press.
