Our faculty is made up of clinicians, educators and researchers in the field of Otorhinolaryngology.
Soo Kim Abboud, MD
- Section Chief, Otorhinolaryngology, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
- Associate Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Nithin D. Adappa, MD
- Surgical Director, Penn AERD Center
- Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Devraj Basu, MD, PhD, FACS
- Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Douglas Bigelow, MD
- Director, Division of Otology/Neurotology
- Co-Director, Center for Cranial Base Surgery
- Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
John V. Bosso, MD
- Medical Director, Penn AERD Center
- Director, Otorhinolaryngology Allergy Clinic
- Clinical Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Jason A. Brant, MD
- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Robert Brody, MD
- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
Steven B. Cannady, MD
- Director, Microvascular Surgery and Education
- Associate Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Ara A. Chalian, MD
- Director, Facial Plastic Reconstruction
- Patient Safety Officer
- Director, Microvascular Lab
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Noam A. Cohen, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center

Conor M. Devine, MD
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery in the Associated Faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine
Yale E. Cohen, PhD
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
- Professor of Neuroscience
Kavita Dedhia, MD
- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Tiffany Chao, MD
- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Chao is a Penn Medicine physician.
Raj C. Dedhia, MD, MSCR
- Director, CPAP Alternatives Clinic | Penn Sleep Center
- Director, Division of Sleep Surgery | Penn Otorhinolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Richard L. Doty, PhD
- Director, Smell and Taste Center
- Professor of Psychology in Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Oren Friedman, MD
- Director, Facial Plastic Surgery
- Associate Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

Maria N. Geffen, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
James J. Kearney, MD
- Chief, Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital
- Associate Program Director, Otorhinolaryngology Residency Program
- Associate Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
David W. Kennedy, MD
- Rhinology Professor
Michael A. Kohanski, MD, PHD
- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Kevin P. Leahy, MD, PhD, FACS
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

Robert J. Lee, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
- Assistant Professor of Physiology
Jonathan M. Lee, MD
- Director, Otorhinolaryngology, Penn Medicine Radnor
- Associate Director, Otorhinolaryngology, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Daqing Li, MD
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Natasha Mirza, MD
- Director, Penn Center for Voice and Swallowing at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
James Palmer, MD
- Director, Division of Rhinology
- Co-Director, Cranial Base Center
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Professor of Neurosurgery
Karthik Rajasekaran, MD
- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Christopher H. Rassekh, MD, FACS
- Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
- Director, Penn Medicine Sialendoscopy Program
- Co-Chair, Hospital University of Pennsylvania Airway Safety Committee
- Director of Risk Reduction and Director of Professional Practice, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Erle S. Robertson, PhD
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
- Professor of Microbiology
- Professor of Radiation Oncology
Michael J. Ruckenstein, MD, MSc, FACS
- Vice Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology
- Director, Implantable Hearing Devices Program
- Director, Residency Training and Education
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Rabie M. Shanti, DMD, MD
- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Erica R. Thaler, MD
- Director, Division of General Otorhinolaryngology
- Director, Otorhinolaryngology, Penn Medicine Radnor
- Director, Otorhinolaryngology Outpatient Surgical Practices, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Gregory S. Weinstein, MD, FACS
- Vice Chairman, Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
- Director, Head and Neck Surgery Division and Head and Neck Surgery Clinic
- Co-Director, Center for Head and Neck Cancer
- Director, Head and Neck Oncology Fellowship
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth White
- Assistant Professor Of Otorhinolaryngology: Head And Neck Surgery