Fellowship Directory

Fellowship Director:
Narong Simakajornboon
[email protected]

Accreditation:
ACGME accredited

Does your program have exposure to pediatric sleep surgery?:
Yes

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
David Smith, Christine Heubi

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Johanna Wickemeyer (2023)

Current positions of sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Wickemeyer (Yale)

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Fellowship Director
Dmitriy Kogan, MD
[email protected]

How many ENT-Specific Positions Per Year:
1

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
1

Accreditation:
ACGME accredited

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Nasal – septoplasty, turbinate reduction, Pharyngeal – palate, tongue, epiglottis, hyoid suspension, genioglossus advancement, Device – hypoglossal nerve stimulator

Does your program have exposure to pediatric sleep surgery?:
Yes

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Tucker Woodson, MD

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Abhay Sharma, MD (2022)

Current positions of sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Abhay Sharma, MD (University of Southern Florida)

Graduates that would be interested and available to be contacted:
[email protected], 504-610-8700

Description of sleep surgery & sleep medicine experience during fellowship, typical week breakdown of OR vs. clinic:
1-2 days OR, 2-3 days clinic. ENT clinic 2 days, sleep medicine clinic split with pulm, peds, and neurology

Additional info:
Strength of this program is the excellent exposure and development of understanding of sleep. Difficulties with sleep patients is the management, and this program will enable you to fully understand and sleep pathology beyond OSA management. Surgically, the key to treatment is the details. Though you learn new techniques and surgeries, the real development in surgery for an ENT fellow is adding elegance to your toolbox. This means being able to successfully manage the vast majority of nasal obstruction using a closed approach (exceptions being severe dorsal deviations or severe twisted noses for functional purposes), precise pharyngoplasty techniques that help avoid the common complications of dehiscence and dysphagia, precise dissection of Hypoglossal nerve, and tongue reduction techniques. Finally, you will get a deep understanding of how to manage Hypoglossal nerve stimulation on your own postoperatively.

Duration of Fellowship:
1 year

Exposure to Sleep Medicine Details:
Will get significant experience but also you have flexibility to do what you want, can add more ent clinics in some flex spots

Interfacing with other specialties?
Neurology, peds, pulm

Surgical Case Load, distribution of procedures performed:
25-30 Hypoglossal nerve stim, 8-10 UPPP, 5-6 midline glossectomy, 5-6 hyoid suspension, 1-2 transpalatal advancement, 1-2 genioglossus advancement, huge number of DISE, 30-40 septoplasty, 4-5 nasal valve procedures.

On-Call Requirement:
Will get occasional calls from sleep lab with questions, severe sleep studies scored from overnight to read. Otherwise no call requirements and you have every weekend available

How many ENT-Specific Positions Per Year:
1

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
1

Accreditation:
ACGME accredited

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Nasal – septoplasty, turbinate reduction, Pharyngeal – palate, tongue, epiglottis, Skeletal – MMA, palate, Device – hypoglossal nerve stimulator

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Courtney Chou MD, Fred Lin

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Nikhita Jain (2024)

Fellowship Director:
Pedro Gomes de Oliveira
[email protected]

How many ENT-Specific Positions Per Year:
2

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
0

Accreditation:
Non-ACGME Accredited. Possible to do a 2-year track (year 1 ACGME Sleep Medicine; year 2 Sleep Surgery)

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Nasal – septoplasty, turbinate reduction
Pharyngeal – palate, tongue, epiglottis
Skeletal – MMA, Maxillary Expansion
Device – hypoglossal nerve stimulator

Does your program have exposure to pediatric sleep surgery?:
No

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Robson Capasso, Pedro Gomes de Oliveira

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Vikram Padhye; Jules Rodin; Ahmed Alsayed; Allen Huang; Thomaz Fleury; Mohamed Abdelwahab; Courtney Chou

Current positions of sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Vikram Padhey (University of Adelaide);  Jules Rodin (UPenn); Ahmed Alsayed (King Saudi University); Allen Huang (USC); Thomaz Fleury (UH Cleveland); Mohamed Abdelwahab (MUSC); Courtney Chou (NYU)

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Fellowship Director:
Jose Barrera

How many ENT-Specific Positions Per Year:
1

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
1

Accreditation:
Non-ACGME Accredited

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Nasal – septoplasty, turbinate reduction, Pharyngeal – palate, tongue, epiglottis, Skeletal – MMA, palate, Device – hypoglossal nerve stimulator

Does your program have exposure to pediatric sleep surgery?:
No

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Jose Barerra

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Fellowship Director:
Karl Doghramji, MD
[email protected]

How many ENT-Specific Positions Per Year:
up to 2

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
2

Accreditation:
ACGME accredited

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Nasal – septoplasty, turbinate reduction, Pharyngeal – palate, tongue, epiglottis, Device – hypoglossal nerve stimulator

Does your program have exposure to pediatric sleep surgery?:
No

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Maurits Boon, MD, Colin Huntley, MD

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Colin Huntley, MD (2017), Ashwin Ananth, MD (2021), Thomas Kaffenberger, MD (2023)/Andrea Plawecki, MD (2023), Nicole Molin, MD (2024)/Erin Creighton, MD (2024)

Current positions of sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Colin Huntley, MD (Thomas Jefferson), Ashwin Ananth, MD (Eastern Shore ENT), Thomas Kaffenberger, MD (U. of Pittsburgh)/Andrea Plawecki, MD (Henry Ford Hospital)

Description of sleep surgery & sleep medicine experience during fellowship, typical week breakdown of OR vs. clinic:
1-2 days OR and 2-3 days in clinic

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Fellowship Director:
Michelle Zeidler
[email protected]

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
5

Accreditation:
ACGME accredited

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Nasal – septoplasty, turbinate reduction
Pharyngeal – palate, tongue, epiglottis
Device – hypoglossal nerve stimulator

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Eric Kezirian, MD MPH
Ashley Kita, MD

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Katherine Green, MD, MS
David Kent, MD
Phil Huyett, MD

Current positions of sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Katherine Green, MD, MS (U Colorado Denver)
David Kent, MD (Vanderbilt)
Phil Huyett, MD (Mass Eye and Ear)

Fellowship Director:
Sheila Tsai
[email protected]

How many ENT-Specific Positions Per Year:
1

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
2

Accreditation:
ACGME accredited

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Nasal – septoplasty, turbinate reduction, Pharyngeal – palate, tongue, epiglottis, palate, Device – hypoglossal nerve stimulator

Does your program have exposure to pediatric sleep surgery?:
Yes

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Katherine Green, Amy Schell

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Vaib Ramprasad (23),

Current positions of sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Ramprasad- cleveland clinic

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Fellowship Director:
Indira Gurubhagavatula, MD, MPH
[email protected]

How many ENT-Specific Positions Per Year:
2

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
5

Accreditation:
ACGME accredited

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Nasal – septoplasty, turbinate reduction, Pharyngeal – palate, tongue, epiglottis, Skeletal – MMA, palate, Device – hypoglossal nerve stimulator

Does your program have exposure to pediatric sleep surgery?:
Yes

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Raj Dedhia, MD MSCR, Jules Rodin MD, Erica Thaler, MD

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Michael Hutz, MD (2021), Sebastian Jara, MD MPH (2022)/Crystal Cheong, MBBS (2022), Julianna Rodin, MD (2023)/ Yi Cai, MD (2023)

Current positions of sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Michael Hutz, MD (Rush Medical Group), Sebastian Jara, MD MPH (University of Southern California)/Crystal Cheong, MBBS (National University Hospital, Singapore), Julianna Rodin, MD (University of Pennsylvania)/ Yi Cai, MD (Columbia University Medical Center)

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Fellowship Director:
Mazen El Ali, MD
[email protected]

How many ENT-Specific Positions Per Year:
1

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
2

Accreditation:
ACGME accredited

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Pharyngeal – palate (Expansion and Barbed suture), tongue, epiglottis,

Device – hypoglossal nerve stimulator (Inspire)

Closed nasal surgery.

Does your program have exposure to pediatric sleep surgery?:
Yes

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Ryan Soose, MD, Rachel Whelan, MD, Thomas Kaffenberger, MD

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Amy Schell, MD (2018), current fellow Jim Han (expected graduation 2025)

Current positions of sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Amy Schell, MD (University of Colorado)

Graduates that would be interested and available to be contacted:
Thomas Kaffenberger, [email protected]

Description of sleep surgery & sleep medicine experience during fellowship, typical week breakdown of OR vs. clinic:
1-3 days OR and 2-3 days in clinic (1 full day in the ENT sleep clinic)

Additional info:
https://dom.pitt.edu/paccm/training/sleep/

-Fellowship is notable for excellent collaboration between Sleep Medicine and Sleep Surgery divisions. Flexibility given to ENT fellows to pursue cases that are interesting to them.
-Advanced troubleshooting of HGNS

Duration of Fellowship:
1 year

Requirements:
Opportunity available for T-32 grant, master’s in education, Public Health

Exposure to Sleep Medicine Details:
12 months longitudinal experience in general sleep rotations at the VA or UPMC sleep clinic. There is a required ½ day fellow clinic on Wednesday mornings. Rotations in specialty clinics: pediatric sleep, insomnia clinic, sleep dentistry. Flexibility to utilize assigned sleep reading time/scholarly time for ENT clinic/OR.

Interfacing with other specialties?
Neurology, Psych, peds, pulm, sleep dentistry, sleep psychologist

Surgical Case Load, distribution of procedures performed:
Minimum expected case volume for 2024-2025

-Hypoglossal nerve stimulator implants: 30, Revisions: 3, Modified uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (ESP/BRP): 5, Nasal surgery: 20, Skeletal (MME/DOME): 3, DISE: 60

On-Call Requirement:
Takes call for sleep lab, see consults at the VA (This is split between 2 fellows). No additional call requirements, and every weekend available.

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Fellowship Director:
Vishesh Kapur, MD MPH
[email protected]

How many ENT-Specific Positions Per Year:
1

How many Sleep Medicine fellow positions per year? ie co-fellows:
2

Accreditation:
ACGME accredited

Types of Sleep Surgery Procedure Performed:
Nasal – septoplasty, turbinate reduction, Pharyngeal – palate, tongue, epiglottis, Skeletal – MMA, palate

Does your program have exposure to pediatric sleep surgery?:
Yes

Names of sleep surgeons who interface with sleep surgery fellows:
Edward Weaver, MD MPH

Recent sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Raj Dedhia, MD MSCR

Current positions of sleep surgery fellowship graduates:
Raj Dedhia, MD MSCR (Penn)

Additional info:
-Advanced troubleshooting of HGNS