ORL Notes

Martin J. Citardi, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, has been named by his peers among Super Doctors® in Texas. Super Doctors are selected through a rigorous process…

A relatively small percentage of sialolithiasis, or salivary gland stones, involves the largest salivary glands, the parotids, with symptoms that include painful swelling at meal times. “Although I didn’t have pain, my left cheek would swell up right before I…

An ongoing increase in the number of residents and a new partnership with Houston Methodist Hospital have expanded the graduate medical education program in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. The department currently…

Data collected in a study of patients at two Houston otolaryngology clinics – one private and the other at a safety-net hospital – show that there is an unmet need for evaluation and acknowledgment of health literacy disparities in patients…

Tang Ho, MD, director of the Texas Center for Facial Plastic Surgery and chief of facial plastic surgery in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, has been named a Castle Connolly Regional Top…

In 2009, at the age of 31, Diona Manning underwent a tonsillectomy. Prior to the surgery, her ENT found a small, asymptomatic carotid body tumor where her left carotid artery branches into smaller vessels that carry blood to the brain….

Jason D. Talmadge, MD, has joined the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston as an assistant professor and member of UT Physicians Otorhinolaryngology-The Woodlands. An Ohio native, Dr. Talmadge is a Phi Beta…

Residents of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth have recognized rhinologist William C. Yao, MD, as Faculty Member of the Year for 2021. Dr. Yao is an associate professor and director of the…

Tang Ho, MD, director of the Texas Center for Facial Plastic Surgery in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, has been named by his peers among Super Doctors® in Texas for 2021. Super…

For nearly a decade, Aster Kebreab’s right cheek swelled when she ate, and if she pressed on it, it was painful. During those years she saw her dentist, an allergist, and several ENTs, all of whom prescribed various antibiotics.  “The…