Ryan C. Borek, MD, FCPP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Attending, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Otolaryngology
Department: Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Hub for Clinical Collaboration
Division of Otolaryngology
3500 Civic Center Boulevard, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The Hub for Clinical Collaboration
Division of Otolaryngology
3500 Civic Center Boulevard, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-3440/1582
Fax: 215-590-3986
Fax: 215-590-3986
Education:
BSc (Applied Mathematics and Computer Science)
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI, 2003.
(Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program)
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2008.
MD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
Permanent linkBSc (Applied Mathematics and Computer Science)
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI, 2003.
(Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program)
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2008.
MD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
Selected Publications
Powers AE, Ryan MJ, Wannes Daou A, Borek RC: "Improvement of Subglottic Stenosis with Treatment of Eosinophilic Esophagitis" Poster presentation at the 2026 Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting (ASPO), Phoenix, AZ. Apr 22-26 2026.Elden L, Williams A, Borek R: "Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation in Children with Down syndrome: Why AHI Alone Doesn't Tell the Whole Story" Poster presentation at the CEORL-HNS 2026 - 8th Congress of European ORL-HNS. Joint program with AAO-HNS and CEORL-HNS, Gothenburg, Sweden. Apr 27 2026.
Gottardi R, Gehret P, Ali Akbari Ghavimi S, Dumas A, Borek RC, Aronson M, Carpenter K, Jacobs IN: A translational approach to airway reconstruction leveraging decellularized meniscus and cartilage progenitor cells. Nature 2026 Notes: Accepted for publication, 5/13/26.
Zheng DJ, Margolskee E, Borek RC, Devine KJ: EBV-negative CD20+ plasma cell posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder of the airway following liver transplant in a 16-month-old. Pediatric Blood Cancer Page: e31901, Jul 2 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1002/pbc.31901. Online ahead of print. Letter to the editor.
Timashpolsky A, Javia L, Jacobs I, Devine C, Giordano T, Zur KB, Borek R, Sobol S: Primary vs. secondary closure of tracheocutaneous fistulas: A prospective cohort study. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology Page: 112293, Apr 2025 Notes: Comparative study. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2025.112293. Epub 2025 Feb 26.
Ali Akbari Ghavimi S, Aronson MR, Ghaderi DD, Friedman RM, Patel N, Giordano T, Borek RC, Devine CM, Han L, Jacobs IN, Gottardi R: Modulated fibrosis and mechanosensing of fibroblasts by SB525334 in pediatric subglottic stenosis. Laryngoscope 134(1): 287-296, Jan 2024 Notes: doi:10.1002/lary.30873 Online ahead of print.
Aronson MR, Mehta A, Friedman RM, Ghaderi DD, Borek RC, Nguyen HCB, McDaid KS, Jacobs IN, Mirza N, Gottardi R: Amelioration of subglottic stenosis by antimicrobial peptide eluting endotracheal tubes. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering 16(4): 369-381, Jun 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s12195-023-00769-9. eCollection 2023 Aug.
Gehret PM, Ali Akbari Ghavimi S, Dumas A, Borek RC, Aronson M, Carpenter K, Jacobs IN, Gottardi R: A translational tissue engineering approach to airway reconstruction leveraging decellularized meniscus and cartilage progenitor cells. bioRxiv Dec 15 2022 Notes: bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.13.520352, not certified by peer review is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. Made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
Vorel ES, Mehta JJ, Russo ME, Muego MP, Borek RC, Kelly JA, Greenfield ME: A 7-year-old with persistent fever and cough. Pediatrics 150(3): e2021050751, Sep 1 2022 Notes: Case report. doi: 10.1542/peds.2021-050751.
Aronson MR, Mehta A, Friedman RM, Borek RC, Nguyen HCB, Ghaderi DD, McDaid KS, Mirza N, Gottardi R.: "Drug-Eluting Endotracheal Tubes for Preventing Bacterial Inflammation in Subglottic Stenosis" Poster presentation at the American Society of Microbiology Microbe Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. June 2022.