Mas Takashima, MD, FACS

02/07/2024

In 4 years, the Department has grown to 30 excellent MD Faculty, 15 subspecialists and 15 comprehensive Otolaryngologists! In two more years, we expect to be 50% larger. Come join our team!

01/21/2024

Great to have the Chief of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery at Cedar Sinai, Dr. Gene Liu, come visit with us and participate in our weekly Friday evening research meeting along with our residents and the “Physicianeers” from the A&M EnMed (Engineering/Medicine) program!

10/27/2023

ABOHNS board retreat in Phoenix - hard work improving the board certification examinations for our specialty but fun times hanging out with friends and colleagues!

09/13/2023

Great meeting in Nuevo Vallarta discussing concepts of skull base reconstruction.

08/08/2023

Our Rhinology team at Houston Methodist show that treating significant post nasal drainage can improve the difficult treatment of the chronic cough. Read about it here:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/alr.23238

06/03/2023

ChatGPT goes head-to-head with the experts in our field. How did it fare? See our HMH Rhinology group’s results here! 1st article in our field looking at the accuracy and completeness of ChatGPT in rhinology.

GPT-4 is an AI language model that can answer basic questions about rhinologic disease. Vetting is needed before AI models can be safely integrated into otolarygologic patient care. This article ...

04/10/2023

Great to see faculty in my Department selflessly spearheading a trip to Ukraine to perform surgeries on wounded soldiers and to teach the surgeons there on the latest techniques of facial reconstruction.

Five Houstonians were part of a group of 13 health care workers from the U.S. and Canada...

03/29/2023

Great representation from the Department at our upcoming meeting. Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues in Boston!

02/16/2023

Houston Methodist ranked as the 2nd best place to work in the USA by Forbes magazine this year and was listed as the best academic healthcare institution to work at in the country! Come join our growing Dept as we continue to look for the best academic sleep surgeons, PhD researchers, and several comprehensive otolaryngologists!

02/14/2023

Expanding our research program! Looking for 2 Clinical Research Fellows to join our academic program this year in July. Hope to see you here!

02/05/2023

Honored to represent Houston Methodist's ENT Department at the Concert of Arias at the Houston Grand Opera. It was amazing to see such talented artists!

01/09/2023

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36575965/

Nasal disorders, including sinonasal diseases, are being affected by changes we are seeing in our environment. We just published a multi institutional study looking at the latest data available on this topic.