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Kayva Crawford, MD (Chief/PGY-6)
Hometown: Portland, OR
Undergrad: University of Washington; Spanish, Bioethics and Humanities
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Outside Interests: marathon running, piano, reading, hiking, painting, baking
Research Interests: population-based research, head and neck oncology, pediatric otolaryngology -
Mena Said, MD (Chief/PGY-5)
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Los Angeles; Biology
Medical School: University of California, Davis
Outside Interests: Running, golf, cheering on the UCLA Bruins
Research Interests: Comparative effectiveness research, clinical informatics -
Robert Saddawi-Konefka, MD, PhD (PGY-7)
Hometown: South Bend, IN
Undergrad: University of Southern California, Neurosciences
Medical School: UCSD
Outside Interests: Surfing, Camping and Backpacking, Family Time
Research Interests: Immuno-Oncology, Immunotherapies and Mechanisms of Tumor-Immune Resistance -
Farhoud Faraji, MD, PhD (PGY-6)
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley; Molecular & Cell Biology
Medical School: Saint Louis University
Outside Interests: Terrestrial and marine naturalism, scuba and freediving, climbing, hiking, yoga, travel, culinary arts, sailing, live music, horticulture and botany.
Research Interests: Head and neck oncology, metastasis biology, transcriptional biology, cell-mediated immunity, medical education. -
Morgan Davis, MD (PGY-5)
Hometown: Jackson, Mississippi
Undergrad: University of Mississippi (Ole Miss); Biochemistry, minors neuroscience and biology
Medical School: University of Mississippi School of Medicine
Outside Interests: working out, playing with my dog Cali, traveling, cooking, Netflix
Research Interests: Facial analysis, tissue regeneration and healing especially in minority populations, head and neck oncology, vestibular migraine -
Benjamin Ostrander, MD (PGY-5)
Hometown: Kenwood, California
Undergrad: University of California, San Diego - Bioengineering, Global Health
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Outside Interests: Music (from playing guitar and piano to attending concerts), the great outdoors (cycling, hiking, camping, surfing...), art (museums, photography, painting), food & drink (discovering, appreciating, cooking, brewing…)
Research Interests: Biodesign and surgical innovation, global surgery, facial reanimation, taste and olfaction -
Jeffrey Bernstein, MD (RSCH/PGY-4)
Hometown: Carmichael, CA
Undergrad: UC Berkeley
Medical School: UC San Diego
Outside Interests: Running, Cycling, Birding, Outdoors, Live music
Research Interests: Vestibular schwannoma, invasive fungal sinusitis, sinusitis-related neurocognitive changes, functional/structural neuroimaging -
Samuel Early, MD, MS (PGY-4)
Hometown: Vancouver, WA
Undergrad: Stanford University; BS Biomechanical Engineering
Graduate School: Stanford University; MS Bioengineering
Medical School: University of California - San Diego
Outside Interests: Cycling, hiking, running, kayaking, baking, Taiwanese street food, sustainable seafood
Research Interests: Hearing loss, Vestibular Schwannoma, cholesteatoma, drug delivery to the middle and inner ear -
Andrew Yousef, MD (RSCH/PGY-4)
Hometown: Glendora, CA
Undergrad: University of California, San Diego - Human Biology & Economics
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco
Outside Interests:Hiking, basketball (both playing and watching), working out, viola, attending concerts, traveling, crosswords
Research Interests: Surgical education, bettering care and outcomes in underserved populations -
Benjamin Bernard, MD (PGY-3)
Hometown: Overland Park, Kansas
Undergrad: University of Missouri-Kansas City; Liberal Arts, Chemistry
Medical School: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Outside Interests: playing sports (basketball, tennis, and spikeball), watching sports (Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Royals, now the San Diego Padres!), exploring the outdoors (hiking/cycling/traveling), and discovering new restaurants
Research Interests: epigenetic drivers of head and neck cancer, implementation of immunotherapy in head and neck cancer, precision medicine and genomic sequencing -
Tammy Pham, MD (PGY-3)
Hometown: San Diego, California
Undergrad: Yale University; Cognitive Science
Medical School: University of California, San Diego
Outside Interests: rock climbing (both indoor and outdoor), board games, coaching high school robotics, playing with my family's kitten
Research Interests: genetics of age-related and noise-induced hearing loss, medical and surgical education, robotics and innovations in surgical technology -
Priyanka Bisarya, MD (PGY-2)
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Undergrad: UC San Diego
Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine
Outside Interests: sailing, water sports, skiing, live music, cycling, running
Research Interests: surgical innovation, robotic technology, medical devices, global health in otolaryngology, medical education -
Peter Eskander, MD (PGY-2)
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: University of Southern California; Health Promotion Disease Prevention and Theater Arts
Medical School: University of Missouri-Columbia
Outside Interests: Cooking, gardening, the world champion Los Angeles Lakers, scuba diving, and voice over acting!
Research Interests: Optimizing outcomes associated with head and neck cancers, health literary and equity in underserved groups, facial reconstruction, and professional voice -
Rohith Voora, MD (PGY-2)
Hometown: Fresno, CA
Undergrad: UCSD
Medical School: UCSD
Outside Interests: basketball, surfing, hip-hop/R&B vinyl and live music, discovering new restaurants and breweries
Research Interests: head and neck oncology, airway and voice, health disparities -
Clara Draf, MD (PGY-1)
Hometown: Fulda, Germany
Undergrad: Technical University Dresden
Medical School: Technical University Dresden
Outside Interests: Scuba Diving, Sailing, Skydiving, Dogs, and facilitating an Autonomous Robotics program at Elementary Schools through San Diego Rotary
Research Interests: Otology: In Vivo Models for drug delivery into the inner ear, AR approaches for temporal bone training, Global health in Otolaryngology -
Madhavi Murali, MD (PGY-1)
Hometown: Lake Zurich, IL
Undergrad: University of Missouri-Kansas City; Liberal Arts, Chemistry
Medical School: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Outside Interests: Running, acrylic painting, cooking, traveling (and reviewing airports!)
Research Interests: Epigenetics in head and neck cancer, healthcare disparities in underserved populations, vestibular schwannoma -
Archana Podury, (PGY-1)
Hometown: Cupertino, CA
Undergrad: Cornell University; Neurobiology & Behavior
Medical School: Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology (HST) Program
Outside Interests: art, plants, reading, music, fashion, solo travel, exploring nature
Research Interests: device engineering, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, hearing loss