Fellowship Faculty
Moises A. Arriaga, MD
Neurotology Fellowship Program Director
Daniel W. Nuss, MD
Department Chairman
Laura T. Hetzler, MD
Residency Program Director
Rahul Mehta, MD
Associate Professor
Terrance Murphy, MD
Associate Professor
LSU-OLOL Neurotology Fellowship
In you are considering the LSU-OLOL Neurotology Fellowship, then please take a look at the Fellowship Program Overview.
The ACGME-accredited Neurotology fellowship program involves two years of study of Otology, Neurotology, and Skull-base Surgery. Candidates that have completed an ACGME-accredited Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery residency are eligible to apply through the San Francisco Match Program. The fellowship has only one trainee at any time.
The fellowship utilizes several regional training sites, with Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as the main location for the program. Other rotation sites include:
- Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital; Baton Rouge, LA
- LSU Health Baton Rouge; Baton Rouge, LA
- West Jefferson Medical Center; New Orleans, LA
Description of Hospitals and Rotations
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center (OLOLRMC):
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center (OLOLRMC), sponsored by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, is a not-for-profit, tertiary care facility servicing a 12-parish service area.
- It is the largest private medical center in Louisiana, with 721 licensed beds
- Approximately 900 physicians annually serve roughly 33,035 inpatients and 276,109 outpatients
- Residents are exposed to otolarygologic subspecialty care in the areas of head and neck oncologic and reconstructive surgery, skull base surgery, advanced sinus disease and sleep medicine.
- PGY 1 residents spend their entire internship year at this institution.
- Didactic schedules include:
- Monthly Otolaryngology Didactic Day and Otology/Neuroradiology Conference
- Weekly multidisciplinary Tumor Board teleconferences and lecture series
- Weekly Neurotology textbook review conference
- Neuroradiology multidisciplinary conferences are held twice monthly
- Monthly Cochlear Implant/Implantable Hearing Device Conference and Vestibular Conference
- Neurotologic tumor histology is discussed at the quarterly Otology/Pathology Conference.
West Jefferson Medical Center:
West Jefferson Medical Center, a 435 bed not-for-profit hospital located in Marrero, Louisiana, resides on a more than 20 acre sprawling campus just minutes from downtown New Orleans.
- Skull base surgery is performed at WJMC under the direction of Dr. Moisés Arriaga and Dr. Frank Culicchia. Additional otologic surgeries are performed under the direction of Dr. Anne Maxwell.
- Fellows also complete an alternative rotation in Cyber Knife/Radiosurgery at this site.