Faculty
Dr. John M. DelGaudio is Professor of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He graduated from LaSalle University in 1985 and received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1989. Dr. DelGaudio completed his residency training in Otolaryngology at the University of Michigan Hospitals in Ann Arbor, MI in 1995. Since then Dr. DelGaudio has been on the faculty of The Department of Otolaryngology at Emory University School of Medicine. He is the Chief of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery, and was appointed Residency Program Director in 2007. He is the President of the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery.
Stil Kountakis, MD, PHD received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1983 and his medical degree from the University of Texas-Houston in 1988. He completed his training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Texas-Houston affiliated hospitals in 1993. After his training Dr. Kountakis stayed on as a faculty at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School until 1999, when he was appointed the Director of Rhinology-Sinus Surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Kountakis joined the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia effective July 1, 2003 as Professor and Vice-chair of the Department of Otolaryngology and as the Chief of the Division of Rhinology - Sinus Surgery. He is also the otolaryngology residency program director at the institution and the director of the rhinology fellowship. Dr. Kountakis currently serves as an associate editor of the American Journal of Rhinology, is the President of the American Rhinology Society and is the immediate past president of the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery.
frederick A. Kuhn, MD, FACS, FARS graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1961 and from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine in 1966. He completed his surgical internship at the University of Oklahoma Hospitals in 1967, a year of General Surgery Residency at St. Lukes Hospital, St. Louis in 1968 and his Otolaryngology Residency at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. with Joseph H. Ogura, M.D. in 1972. After two years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, he was in private practice in Oklahoma City from 1974-1991. He then joined the Dept. of Surgery/Section of Otolaryngology/HNS of the Medical College of Georgia where he was a Professor of Surgery and head of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery. He started his Rhinology and Sinus Fellowship there and has subsequently trained 18 fellows. He is the Founder and President of The Georgia Nasal and Sinus Institute in Savannah, GA and is an Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Kuhn specializes in revision sinus surgery, particularly the frontal sinus, Allergic Fungal/Chronic Eosinophilic sinusitis, and medical management of difficult cases.
Rod Schlosser, MD graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1988 and served in the US Army Corps of Engineers for 4 years. He received his medical degree from the Mayo Medical School in 1996, followed by otolaryngology residency at the University of Virginia. In 2002 he completed a fellowship in rhinology and sinus surgery at the University of Pennsylvania under Drs. David Kennedy and William Bolger. He is a Professor and Director of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
Brent Senior, MD graduated from the Wheaton College in 1986 and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1990. His internship in General Surgery was completed at Boston University in 1991, followed by a residency in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at the combined otolaryngology residency training program at Tufts University and Boston University. In 1996, he completed a fellowship in rhinology and sinus surgery at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. David Kennedy. He joined the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital as a Senior Staff Surgeon in 1996, leaving to join the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1999. He currently serves as Professor and Vice Chair of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Chief of Rhinology, Allergy, and Sinus Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Michael J. Sillers, MD graduated from the University of Alabama in 1984 and received his MD from the University of Alabama in 1988. He completed an internship in general surgery and a residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham in 1993. He completed his training as a fellow in rhinology and sinus surgery at the Medical College of Georgia and joined the faculty at UAB in 1994. He was promoted to Professor of Surgery in 2003 and held the endowed James J. Hicks Chair in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He is past President of the American Rhinologic Society, the Alabalama Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and currently the founder and director of the Alabama Nasal and Sinus Center in Birmingham, AL.