Three New Residents Join the Otorhinolaryngology Team
Members of the Otolaryngology Residency Class of 2030 at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston will arrive in Texas this summer after graduating from medical schools in Washington, Massachusetts, and California. The department’s new residents, who matched to its residency training program through the National Resident Matching Program®, are Luis Gomez-Castillo, MD, a native of Mexico City, who graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine; Tara Nibhanupudy, MD, from Lake Mary, Florida, a graduate of Boston University Medical School; and Jonathan Pang, MD, a California native and graduate of the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.
“We’ve had another very successful match, which I believe is a testament to our great department, faculty, partnering departments, residents, and our staff. I’m personally ecstatic to welcome these three young high-caliber physicians, whom I got to know while they rotated at our institution,” says William C. Yao, MD, associate professor of otorhinolaryngology, chief of rhinology, and director of the otolaryngology residency program. “We look forward to working with them as they train to become leaders in our field.”
The McGovern Medical School Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Residency Training Program provides experience in the subspecialties of bronchoesophagology, facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, head and neck surgery, laryngology, maxillofacial trauma, otology and neuro-otology, pediatric otolaryngology, and rhinology as well as audiology and speech pathology. Over the course of their five years at the institution, residents have opportunities for both formal and informal educational experiences, with a graduated increase in responsibility for education and patient care in line with their demonstrated clinical skills.
The new residents will have clinical rotations at the department’s state-of-the-art outpatient office at Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza, local surgery centers, and major hospitals including Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, a quaternary referral center and Level 1 trauma center; Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, part of the Harris Health System; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; and Houston Methodist Hospital.