Message from the Chair

Starting with just seven faculty members and eight residents, Emory Otolaryngology attained department status in the Emory University School of Medicine in 1998. Since then, the department's faculty, trainee, and staff numbers have grown steadily, and the quality of our clinical, academic, and research components has become known throughout the region.

Emory Otolaryngology's goals are fully aligned with those of the School of Medicine and Emory Healthcare: to provide excellent patient care, educate young physicians and the community, and engage in discovery that will advance the treatment of human disease.

As the only academic otolaryngology program in metro Atlanta, Emory Otolaryngology is extremely active in providing tertiary care of the head and neck, otology, rhinology and allergy, voice and swallowing, and facial aesthetics. In addition to collaborative efforts with other departments throughout the School of Medicine and Emory University at large, our faculty have forged active partnerships with such organizations as the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Cancer Society.

Emory Otolaryngology's primary adult outpatient activity is centered at Emory University Hospital Midtown and Emory Decatur Hospital, our pediatric otolaryngology practice is based at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, and we have active services at Emory University Hospital, Emory Aesthetic Center, Grady Memorial Hospital, and the Atlanta Veteran's Administration Medical Center.

It is my privilege to steward this enterprise. Despite the challenges that exist in healthcare today, particularly in academic medicine, we at Emory Otolaryngology will continue to develop our leadership skills, serve our patients in new and progressive ways, and score at the very top of our match list for incoming residents, thereby allowing us to train the next generation of academic and private otolaryngology practitioners.

Sincerely,