Course Chairs
Andrew N. Goldberg, MD, MSCE
Professor and Vice Chair
Director, Division of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Andrew H. Murr, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Guest Faculty
Yuri Agrawal, MD, MPH
Department Chair
Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Bill George, MBA
Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School
David Goldenberg, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA
UCSF Faculty
(Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, unless otherwise noted)
Grace Banik, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Silvia Bellfort-Salinas, MSW-LCSW
Pediatric Clinical Social Worker, UCSF Medical Center
Anna Butrymowicz, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of General Otolaryngology -
Head and Neck Surgery
Dylan K. Chan, MD, PhD
Professor in Residence, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Director of the Children's Communication Center (CCC)
Jolie Chang, MD
Associate Professor
Chief, Division of General Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Chief, Division of Sleep Surgery
Yew Song Cheng, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Otology, Neurotology and
Skull Base Surgery
Steven W. Cheung, MD
Professor, Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery
David M. Claman, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, UCSF Sleep Disorders Center
Sarah Coulthurst, AuD
Director of the Cochlear Implant Team
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, Oakland, CA
Tyler Crosby, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Laryngology
Josephine Czechowicz, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Megan Durr, MD
Associate Professor, Sleep Surgery and General Otolaryngology -
Head and Neck Surgery
Director of Quality
Interim Chief of Otolaryngology,
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Ivan El-Sayed, MD
Professor, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
Co-Director, UCSF Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery Program
Jonathan George, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
Kiran Gupta, MD, MPH
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Divisions of Palliative Care and Hospital Medicine
Medical Director for Quality, Adult Services, UCSF Medical Center
José Gurrola, II, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery
OTO-HNS-Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Patrick Ha, MD
Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs
Distinguished Professor in Head and Neck Cancer
Chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
Chase Heaton, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
Chief of Service, San Francisco VAMC
P. Daniel Knott, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Facial Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery
Fellowship Co-director, Facial Plastics and Microvascular Surgery
Rebecca Lewis, AuD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Chief of Audiology, UCSF Health
Patricia Loftus, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery
Kimberly Luu, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Yue Ma, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Laryngology
Andrea Park, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Facial Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery
Steven Pletcher, MD
Professor, Division of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery
Director, UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Residency Program
Clark A. Rosen, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Laryngology
Francis Lewis Morrison, MD Endowed Chair in Laryngology
Co-Director, UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center
William Ryan, MD
Professor, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and
Endocrine Surgery
Chiara Scarpelli, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Caroline Schlocker, MD
Associate Professor, Division of General Otolaryngology
Sarah L. Schneider, MS, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow
Speech Language Pathology Director, OHNS
Co-Director, UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center
Associate Clinical Professor
Jenny Stephans, BS
Program Coordinator
UCSF Children’s Communication Center (CCC)
Jordan Virbalas, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Jacqueline Weinstein, MD, FAAP
Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
VyVy N. Young, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Laryngology
Associate Residency Program Director,
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery