
Otomentor
By Cristina Cabrera-Muffly
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Super Women - Episode 5: The Double Bind - Too Hard, Too Soft, Getting to Just Right
In collaboration with the Women in Otolaryngology (WIO) Section of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Join me as I discuss The Double Bind with Dana Thompson, MD, the Lauren D. Holinger Professor and Division Head of Pediatric Otolaryngology at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Super Women - Episode 4: Pay Equity and Negotiating as a Female Surgeon
In collaboration with the Women in Otolaryngology (WIO) Section of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Join Dr. Taylor Standiford Erickson as she discusses pay equity and negotiation as a female surgeon with Dr. Kathy Yaremchuk, Chair Emeritus of the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford in Detroit, Michigan, and Dr. Jolie Chang, Professor and Chief of Sleep Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California San Francisco.

Super Women - Episode 3: Aligning Work and Life
In collaboration with the Women in Otolaryngology (WIO) Section of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Join me as I discuss Aligning Work and Life with Yuri Agrawal, MD, Professor and Chair of the University of Colorado Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.

Super Women - Episode 2: Essentialism
In collaboration with the Women in Otolaryngology (WIO) Section of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Join me as I discuss Essentialism with Sonya Malekzadeh, MD, Professor at the MedStar Georgetown Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in Washington DC.

Super Women - Episode 1: Imposter Syndrome
In collaboration with the Women in Otolaryngology (WIO) Section of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Join me as I discuss Imposter Syndrome with Lisa Shnayder, MD, Interim Chair of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at The University of Kansas.

Season 4, Episode 4: Signaling in Otolaryngology Residency Application
Join us as we talk to Dr. Steven Pletcher, one of the innovators who brought signaling to the match process in Otolaryngology during the 2020-21 Match cycle.

Season 4, Episode 3: Supporting Trainees Wanting to Start a Family During Residency
Listen in as I chat with Dr. Thomas Robey, the Residency Program Director at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He tells the story of how five of his residents delivered healthy babies in the spring of 2024!

Season 4, Episode 2: How to successfully interview for an otolaryngology residency position
Join us as we interview Dr. Soham Roy about how to put your best foot forward during the otolaryngology residency interview process.
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Season 4, Episode 1: How to select the right residency program for you
Otomentor is back for 2024 with all new episodes. In this episode, I interview Dr. Taylor Erickson and Dr. Sarah Clark, both PGY3 residents at different training programs to find out how they decided which program was right for them. We would love your feedback! Please fill out our survey here: https://ucdenver.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aXdsLnVyX2oAGAm

Episode 38: Applying to Otolaryngology Residency without a Home Program
Back with a special episode! Join me as I chat with Dr. Neil Kondamuri and Dr. Jan Groblewski about applying to otolaryngology when your medical school doesn't have a ENT residency program.

Rural Private Practice in Otolaryngology, Season 3, Episode 6
Thinking about practicing general otolaryngology in a rural area? Hear what Dr. Paul Nies thinks about his experiences doing just that!

LGBTQ+ Identity in Otolaryngology - Season 3, Episode 5
Listen as I chat with Dr. Scott Chaiet, a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the University of Wisconsin, about his journey in our field.

Selecting an Otolaryngology Practice - Season 3, Episode 4
Listen to pearls of wisdom from Dr. Brian Herrmann as he takes us through what questions you should ask when selecting a practice, as well as RVUs, buy-ins, contract clauses, and more!

Away Rotations in Otolaryngology (Season 3, Episode 3)
In this episode, I get both sides of the story with perspectives from Dr. Anne Getz, a Rhinologist and Associate Program Director, and Dr. Victoria Fischman, one of our residents at Colorado. Dr. Getz is a member of our application review team. Dr. Fischman was an impressive away rotator in 2019 and ended up matching in our program. What do they think about away rotations?

Private Practice Neurotology (Season 3, Episode 2)
Can you be a successful fellowship trained Neurotologist and also be in private practice? Join me as a talk to Dr. Doug Backous as he describes how he is doing just that.

Lessons Learned in the First Years of Practice (Season 3, Episode 1)
I'm back with the third season of the Otomentor podcast. Listen as I interview Dr. Andy Johnson, a general Otolaryngologist, about his career path and what he has learned in his first few years of practice.

Season 2, Episode 10: Working with your Speech Language Pathologist
Meet Marie Jette and Liz Cuadrado, two of our superstar Sleep Language Pathologists at the University of Colorado on this episode.

Season 2, Episode 9: Work Life Balance in Otolaryngology
Join me as I chat with Dr. Lisa Shnayder, Head and Neck Surgeon at the University of Kansas, about Work Life Balance.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Underrepresented Minority Experience in Otolaryngology Part 2
Listen as I talk to Carrie Francis, MD, a Pediatric Otolaryngologist at the University of Kansas, about her experiences as a Black woman in Otolaryngology.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Underrepresented Minority Experience in Otolaryngology Part 1
Join me as I chat with Dr. Troy Woodard, Rhinologist at the Cleveland Clinic, about his experiences as a Black male in Otolaryngology.

Season 2, Episode 6: Working with APPs in Your Otolaryngology Practice
Listen as I chat with Robie Gray, a PA in our department, about her experiences working on our Otolaryngology team.

Season 2, Episode 5: The Otolaryngology Clinician-Scientist
Think you might enjoy both treating patients clinically and answering research questions in the lab? Listen as I talk to Dr. Sam Gubbels about his clinician-scientist career.

Season 2, Episode 4: Life as a General Otolaryngologist in Private Practice
Listen as I talk to Craig Quattlebaum, MD as he shares what life is like as a community based general Otolaryngologist.

COVID Special Series Episode 6
Sharing the Otolaryngology community's thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. My guest on this episode is Paul Bryson, MD.

COVID Special Series Episode 5
Sharing the Otolaryngology community's thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. My guest on this episode is Herman Jenkins, MD.

COVID Special Series Episode 4
Sharing the Otolaryngology community's thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. My guest on this episode is Evelyne Kalyoussef, MD.

COVID Special Series Episode 3
Sharing the Otolaryngology community's thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. My guest on this episode is Conner Massey, MD.

COVID Special Series Episode 2
Sharing the Otolaryngology community's thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. My guest on this episode is Craig Quattlebaum, MD

COVID Special Series Episode 1
Sharing the Otolaryngology community's thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. My guest on this episode is Samuel Gubbels, MD.

Season 2, Episode 3: Networking Locally and Nationally
In this episode, I discuss how to network and become involved with Stacey Ishman, MD, otolaryngologist and pediatric sleep expert.

Season 2, Episode 2: Choosing a Fellowship in Otolaryngology - The Pediatric Edition
Join me for the last choosing a fellowship episode! I speak with Owen Darr, MD about his decision to pursue Pediatric Otolaryngology.

Season 2, Episode 1: Wellness, Mental Health and Burn Out in an Otolaryngology Career
Welcome back for Season 2 of the Otomentor Podcast! This episode, I interview Dr. Ross Shockley about Wellness, Mental Health, and Burnout as it relates to an Otolaryngology career.

Episode 15: Happy Holidays
See you in 2020 as I bring you Season 2 of the Otomentor podcast.

Episode 14: The History of Otolaryngology
Join me as I talk to Brekel Kemp, a medical student interested in Otolaryngology, about our field's history.
If you want to learn more, here are the references for this episode:
1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/otolaryngology
2. https://www.entnet.org/content/about-us
3. https://www.aboto.org/about_us.html
4. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarticle/509881
5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11448308
6. http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?jp04025
7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2006.04.012
8. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1909/kocher/biographical/
9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215118001214
10. http://muttermuseum.org/exhibitions/chevalier-jackson-collection/
11. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/health/11swallow.html?src=me&ref=hea
12. https://www.fda.gov/media/116890/download
13. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696071/
14. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/otolaryngology/our_team/directors/cummings.html
16. https://pmj.bmj.com/content/76/892/65.full
17. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17559714
18. https://www.ama-assn.org/residents-students/match/inside-numbers-behind-record-setting-2019-match

Episode 13: Choosing a Fellowship in Otolaryngology -- The Head and Neck Edition
Join me as I talk to Dr. Carissa Thomas, who describes her experiences as a recent graduate from Head and Neck fellowship training in Toronto.

Episode 12: Choosing a Fellowship in Otolaryngology--The Neurotology Edition
Join me as I interview Jameson Mattingly, new faculty member at The Ohio State University and recent Neurology Fellowship graduate.

Episode 11: Choosing a Fellowship in Otolaryngology--The Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Edition
In this episode I interview Dr. Geoff Ferril, a fellowship trained Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, about his journey to this subspecialty.

Episode 10: Navigating the Couples Match in Otolaryngology
In this episode I have 2 guests! Taylor Gilliland and Libby Boscoe, who are both residents who participated in the couples match, talk about the process.

Episode 9: Choosing a Fellowship in Otolaryngology - The Laryngology Edition
In this episode I interview Dr. Dan Fink, a laryngologist at the University of Colorado, about his path to this subspecialty.

Episode 8: Lessons Learned from Otolaryngology Residency
Listen in as Dr. Nathan Cass talks about lessons he learned during his residency, including as an administrative chief.

Episode 7: Pregnancy and Childbirth during OTO residency.
Thinking about having a baby? Join me as I discuss pregnancy, childbirth, and life with a newborn with Emily Ambrose, MD, recent otolaryngology residency graduate.

Episode 6: Leadership Opportunities in Otolaryngology
Join me as I interview Dr. Douglas Girod, the 18th Chancellor of the University of Kansas and prior Chair of the University's Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. We discuss leadership opportunities within otolaryngology.

Episode 5: Choosing Otolaryngology as a Specialty
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Brook McConnell, division chief of Otolaryngology at the Veterans Administration in Denver, about choosing Otolaryngology as a specialty.

Episode 4: Applying to Otolaryngology Residency
In this episode, I discuss applying to Otolaryngology residency with Dr. Scott Mann, who serves as associate program director for the University of Colorado Otolaryngology Residency Program.

Episode 3: Choosing a Fellowship in Otolaryngology--The Rhinology Edition
In this episode, I interview Dan Beswick, MD, who completed a Rhinology fellowship before joining our department.


Episode 1: Otolaryng-what and why this podcast?
This is the introductory episode to the Otomentor podcast.