Otolaryngology Residency Program News

Two residents in the Duke Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences have been awarded grants to help advance the field of otolaryngology through innovative research. Ayad Ali, MD, PhD, and Talia Guardia, MD, PhD, each received a 2026 Centralized Otolaryngology Research Efforts (CORE) Resident Research Grant from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS).   The CORE grant program supports research in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.  

Bradley Goldstein, MD, PhD, was awarded an NIH grant to fund the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences Otolaryngology Residency Research track.

Nationwide, residency programs faced the same dilemma in 2020: how can a program truly engage applicants and offer candidates an authentic representation of the resident experience when recruiting must take place entirely through a computer screen?

As members of a new department, faculty and staff in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences eagerly anticipated rapid progress and development throughout 2020 in becoming a model department. When the coronavirus pandemic hit in early 2020, plans needed to be altered. The safety of the department’s faculty, trainees, staff, and patients became priority. Most of the staff started working from home. Clinical cases were put on hold or rescheduled. Safety guidelines for faculty, staff, and trainees working at the hospital constantly changed.

Dr. Nicholas Mildenhall, Otolaryngology Resident, one of two residents from the Section of Surgical Disciplines, has been inducted into the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society.

We are excited to welcome our new residents to the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences. Congratulations to all those who matched with us! We look forward to meeting you this summer.

We are excited to welcome our new residents to the Department of Surgery. Congratulations to all those who matched with us! We look forward to meeting you this summer.

We are excited to welcome our new residents to the Department of Surgery. Congratulations to all those who matched with us!

Dr. Liana Puscas, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, has been elected to the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) as a member representing the American Medical Association (AMA).

Using a network of 3D printers in the Innovation Co-Lab Studio at Duke, otolaryngology resident Tawfiq Khoury, MD, creates what was considered impossible just a few years ago. Though 3D printing can be traced to the early 1980s, advancements in recent years have made the technology more affordable and accessible, and therefore more valuable to medicine.