ORL Notes

Martin J. Citardi, MD; Amber Luong, MD, PhD; Tang Ho, MD; Ibrahim “Trey” Alava III, MD; and Sancak Yuksel, MD, have been named by their peers as Super Doctors® in Texas. Super Doctors are selected through a rigorous process that…

Residents in the Department of Emergency Medicine at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth named their otorhinolaryngology counterparts the “Best Emergency Consultants” for 2019. The award, instituted this year by graduating emergency medicine residents, recognizes the ER consultants “who are most…

Katherine Davis* is not sure which came first: her sinus infections or the depression. “It’s a tangled thing beginning in childhood and continuing through my life,” she says.  She had her first sinus infection before she was 10, followed by…

Martin J. Citardi, MD; Amber Luong, MD, PhD; and Soham Roy, MD, have been named among Best Doctors® for 2019. Since 1989, Best Doctors has conducted one of the largest ongoing peer physician polls in health care to identify the…

Zhen “Jane” Huang, MD, MBA; Kunal Jain, MD; and Zi Yang Jiang, MD, were named by their peers as Super Doctors Rising Stars in Texas. Following an extensive independent nomination and research process, the results were published in Texas Monthly…

The ability to smell adds immeasurably to our experience of life and the way we relate to our surroundings. When Larry Simmons lost his sense of smell, he also lost the ability to taste. Both senses dimmed gradually over the…

Otorhinolaryngology (ORL) is a highly specialized discipline dependent on OR support staff who are knowledgeable about the advanced procedures and instruments used by physicians during surgery. Thanks in part to the proficiency of nurses and surgical technologists at Memorial Hermann-Texas…

  Ibrahim “Trey” Alava III, MD, FACS, has been promoted to associate professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. Dr. Alava is chief of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Harris Health Lyndon…

Amber U. Luong, MD, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, has been named to Castle Connolly’s Exceptional Women in Medicine. A practicing rhinologist, Dr. Luong directs the department’s…

When Douglas Stanley, MD, first examined Cheryel Olin, she complained of continuous postnasal drip. She had been diagnosed with nearly continuous sinus infections, and received one round of antibiotics and steroids after another—without benefit. “For a year my voice sounded…