Dr. Amber Luong Named Among 2024 Castle Connolly Top Doctors
Amber Luong, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair for academic affairs in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, has been named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for 2024. Top Doctors represent the top 7% of all physicians practicing in the United States, are considered best-in-class health care providers, demonstrating excellence in clinical care as well as interpersonal skills.
After graduating summa cum laude from Trinity University, Dr. Luong was accepted to the National institutes of Health-sponsored Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern Medical School, where she earned her MD/PhD. Following an internship in general surgery and residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the same institution, she completed fellowship training in rhinology and endoscopic skull base surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She joined the Department of Otorhinolaryngology in September 2009 and rose to the rank of tenured professor with a joint appointment as professor of molecular medicine at the Center of Immunology and Autoimmune Diseases at the UTHealth Houston Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases.
Dr. Luong received the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Award for distinguished service in 2014; the UTHealth Women Faculty Forum Excellence Award in 2017; the Women in Otolaryngology Helen F. Krause, MD Memorial Trailblazer Award in 2017; the McGovern Medical School Faculty Member of the Year Award for 2017-2018; the American Rhinologic Society Presidential Citation for meritorious service in advancing the cause of diversity and inclusion in 2018; and the Edmund Prince Fowler Award, given by The Triological Society in recognition of excellence in basic science research, in 2019. She was accepted to the 2019-2020 Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program, a yearlong, part-time fellowship for women faculty in schools of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy. In 2020, she received the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Distinguished Service Award. In 2022, she was the invited Ogura Lecturer for Resident Research Day and the Graduation Ceremony in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Luong has been named a top doctor by Castle Connolly since 2015; among the Best Doctors in America from 2016 to 2023; and has been named among Texas Super Doctors numerous times. She was named to Castle Connolly’s list of Exceptional Women in Medicine in 2018.
Castle Connolly Top Doctors are nominated by their peers and thoroughly vetted by the organization’s physician-led research team. The organization has been rating physicians since 1991. Castle Connolly’s established survey research process, directed by a physician, involves tens of thousands of top doctors in America and the medical leadership of leading hospitals.