Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery consists of full-time physician faculty, part-time physician faculty, research faculty, full-time audiology faculty, speech pathology faculty, vestibular rehabilitation faculty, 48 volunteer clinical faculty, and 16 residents.
Teaching hospitals include Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Dallas VA Medical Center, Children's Medical Center Dallas, John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, St. Paul Medical Center in Dallas, and Zale Lipshy University Hospital in Dallas. Parkland Memorial Hospital, Children's Medical Center Dallas, the Callier Center for Communicative Disorders, Zale Lipshy Hospital, the professional office building for the faculty, and the administrative offices are all located on the main campus. The Department of Otolaryngology-HNS and its state of the art 17-station temporal bone laboratory are also situated on this campus. St. Paul Medical Center is across the street, and the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center and John Peter Smith Hospital are several miles away.
The Dallas Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, originally organized under Donald Corgill, M.D., is a regional referral center for Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and is staffed by four of the departmental residents at all times. There are approximately 10,000 outpatient visits and 2,500 major surgical procedures being performed each year. In addition to daily outpatient clinics, weekly specialty clinics are held in Otology and Head and Neck Oncology. Current construction will result in a new large otolaryngology clinic. Larry L. Myers, M.D. currently administers the program. Dr. Myers graduated from the University of Chicago Medical School and completed his residency at State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his fellowship in head & neck surgery and micro vascular reconstructive surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center and Ann Arbor VA Medical Center.
Parkland Memorial Hospital is a Level I (American College of Surgeons criteria) trauma center in Texas and provides Otolaryngology services in the form of 10,000 outpatient visits a year and 2,000 major surgical procedures. Parkland is staffed at all times by five residents and has recently undergone an $80 million renovation. Weekly specialty clinics include Otology, Head and Neck Oncology, Facial Plastic Surgery, and Geriatrics. Bradley F. Marple, M.D., directs clinical services. Dr. Marple is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He completed his residency training in otolaryngology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He currently serves as Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery where he is active in rhinology and allergy.
John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth is staffed by Michelle Marcincuk, M.D. It is the county hospital for Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Full otolaryngology services are offered, including thyroid and mandible surgery.
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery services at Children's Medical Center Dallas are directed by Amy Brenski, M.D. Dr. Brenski is a graduate of Rush Medical College and the Otolaryngology residency program at Rush Presbyterian, St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Doctors Brenski, Brown and McClay, the clinical faculty, and three otolaryngology residents are responsible for 12,000 outpatient visits and 3, 500 procedures performed annually at Children's Medical Center.
The Callier Center for Communication Disorders is part of the graduate school of the University of Texas at Dallas under the directorship of Thomas F. Campbell, Ph.D. There are 74 faculty members in areas as diverse as neurophysiology, speech, audiology and psychoacoustics, and master and doctoral degrees are offered in both audiology and speech pathology.The hearing research basic science laboratory for the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is located at the Callier Center and is directed by Gary Wright, Ph.D., who is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
In the residency tenure, three-months of elective time is allotted, which may be used for research, either basic or clinical science research. This is carried out under the direction of the faculty. The goal of this research is to permit the resident to bridge the gap between the laboratory and the clinical service by firsthand experience, and to develop the critical thinking necessary to advance the specialty of Otolaryngology into the next decade. During the entire five years of residency, the resident undergoes a vigorous teaching program, which complements the demands of a busy clinical service. During the last four years, the resident attends the Otolaryngology Monthly Conference, at which visiting professors frequently lecture. Residents are required to present a yearly 30-minute lecture at a Monthly Conference. There are monthly Journal Club, quarterly Basic Science core lectures, and study group meetings. Temporal Bone Laboratory is held on a monthly basis. Once every other year a Head and Neck Anatomy Course is presented, making use of fresh cadaver dissection. The intent of this vigorous academic program is to provide a solid foundation upon which a successful career can be built in academic medicine or private practice, depending upon the choice of the individual.
Future goals for the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery recognize the necessary clinical commitments incumbent on the program as the only medical school in north central Texas and the strong emphasis on research at Southwestern Medical School. Our Department will meet the patient care commitments of a rapidly growing medical school, and expand the ongoing regional and national investigative programs.
