May 26, 2023

Message sent on behalf of Carlos del Rio, MD, Interim Dean, Emory School of Medicine, and Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs

Dear colleagues and friends:

We are pleased to announce that C. Arturo Solares, MD, has been named interim chair of the Department of Otolaryngology, effective July 1. Dr. Douglas Mattox, otolaryngology’s founding chair, is retiring after a distinguished 25 years leading the department. We are grateful to Dr. Mattox for his immeasurable contributions, and confident that Dr. Solares is extremely well positioned to continue leading this outstanding department during the search for a new chair.

Dr. Solares has been on the Emory faculty since 2016 and is a professor of otolaryngology. His clinical interests including benign and malignant diseases of the anterior and lateral skull base, head and neck surgery and microvascular reconstruction. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in skull base surgery and has been invited to speak in more than 20 different countries. Dr. Solares' research areas of interest include surgical simulation/applied anatomy and perineural spread of cutaneous malignancies. He also plays a leadership role in the North American Skull Base Society.  

Dr. Solares earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala City.  He completed residency at Cleveland Clinic and has fellowship training from the Queensland Skull Base Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, and the Center for Cranial Base Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.

Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Dr. Solares to the leadership team.

Carlos del Rio, MD

Interim Dean, Emory University School of Medicine
Interim Chief Academic Officer, Emory Healthcare
Leon L. Haley, Jr. MD Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine

Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH

Executive Vice President for Health Affairs

Emory University