ORL Notes

Jumah Ahmad, MD, Karim Asi, MD, and Sean McKee, MD, have completed their residency training in comprehensive otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Dr. Ahmad leaves the Department of Otorhinolaryngology to begin fellowship training in…

Vivian Kaul, MD, an assistant professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, was among 25 otolaryngologists and anesthesiologists who extended their practice beyond the walls of American hospitals to the Dominican Republic, where they…

Members of the Otolaryngology Residency Class of 2029 at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston have arrived in Houston from Louisiana, South Carolina, and Massachusetts. The department’s new residents are Hannah DellaCroce, MD, a native of Metairie, Louisiana, who graduated…

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…

A sound survey conducted during 420 pediatric otolaryngology clinic visits to a tertiary care facility in Houston sheds a first light on the level of noise to which pediatric ENTs are exposed. The results of the study, conducted from January…

Rhinologist Amber Luong, MD, PhD, was the first physician recruited to the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston by Martin J. Citardi, MD, after he was appointed professor and chair in 2007. Since then, the department…

After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, stay-at-home orders were issued across the United States, leading to delays in patient care and screening. Cancer care at Houston’s county-run safety-net hospital was halted by clinic shutdowns…

Head and neck surgical oncologist Kunal S. Jain, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, has been named among Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors for 2024. Top Doctors represent the top 7%…

Martin J. Citardi, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, is celebrating his eleventh consecutive year as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor. Dr. Citardi, who has been named to the list…

After a conventional tonsillectomy at a community hospital outside of Houston, Thomas Standard was diagnosed with early stage tonsil cancer related to the human papillomavirus (HPV). When a PET scan following surgery showed residual cancer, a radiologist at the hospital…