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Advanced Otology

Overview:

The Advanced Otology Fellowship provides training in the diagnosis and management of complex middle and inner ear disorders. The clinical education will focus on middle ear diseases, implantable devices for hearing loss, acute and chronic vestibular disorders. Our training better prepares an otolaryngology residency graduate to perform surgery on extensive cholesteatomas, offer stapes or cochlear implant surgery, and counsel patients with significant vestibular disorders. The Advanced Otology fellow will gain more hands-on experience with larger number of patient volume in order to achieve increased clinical competence in the medical management and surgical techniques of complex ear disorders. The fellow will learn to treat hearing and balance disorders in the setting of significant co-morbid conditions such as speech and developmental delay, learning disabilities, sinonasal pathology, autoimmune/inflammatory disease, neurodegenerative disorders, migraine, and traumatic brain injury. The fellowship emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary care by collaborating with audiologists, speech-language pathologists, neurologists, neuroradiologists, and neurosurgeons.

Goals of the Advanced Otology fellowship:

  1. Increase clinical competence in the diagnosis and management of complex hearing and balance disorders
  2. Gain experience in addressing co-morbid conditions and providing multidisciplinary care

Clinical Sites:

  1. UF Health Shands
  2. UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital
  3. UF Health Oaks ENT Clinic and Surgery Center
  4. Florida Surgical Center
  5. Children’s Surgical Center
  6. UF Hearing Research Center

Application Process: Advanced Otology Fellowship Program

Academic Year 2025-2026: FILLED

Academic Year 2026-2027: FILLED

Academic Year 2027-2028: OPEN AND ROLLING

Start Date: July 1

Duration: 1 year

Salary: post graduate level 6

Licensing Requirements: Florida Medical License is required prior to beginning the fellowship

Fellows Per Year: 1

To apply, please send a letter of intent, CV and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Chen.

Si Chen
Department: MD-OTOLARYNGOLOGY

Si Chen MD

Assistant Professor, Division Of Otology/Neurotology, UF Health The Oaks Clinic Medical Director, Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education

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Faculty:

Patrick J Antonelli
Department: MD-OTOLARYNGOLOGY

Patrick J Antonelli MD

George T. Singleton Professor – Division of Otology/Neurotology
Si Chen
Department: MD-OTOLARYNGOLOGY

Si Chen MD

Assistant Professor, Division Of Otology/Neurotology, UF Health The Oaks Clinic Medical Director, Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education
Rex S Haberman
Department: MD-OTOLARYNGOLOGY

Rex S Haberman MD

Associate Professor, Division of Otology/Neurotology
Katherine L Gray-Lingis

Katherine L Gray-Lingis AuD

Mgr Audiology
Melissa J W Hall

Melissa J W Hall MA, AuD, CCC-A/SLP

Audiologist
Dana L Ulmer

Dana L Ulmer Au.D.

Audiologist
Amy E Crews

Amy E Crews AuD., CCC-A

Audiologist
Susan Nittrouer
Department: HP-SLP LANG & HEARING SCI

Susan Nittrouer Ph.D.

Professor
Shinichi Someya
Department: Department of Physiology and Aging

Shinichi Someya PhD

Associate Professor

Past Fellows:

2023-24: Alberto Arteaga, MD

Current practice: Baptist Health, Jacksonville, FL

2022-2023: Samuel Smith, MD

Current practice: University of Tennessee Health Science Center