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Stil Kountakis, MD

  • Professor and Chair
  • Rhinology and Sinus Surgery

skountakis@augusta.edu

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Greg Postma, MD

  • Professor
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  • Chief, Laryngology
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J. Kenneth Byrd, MD

  • Professor & Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs
  • Chief, Head and Neck Surgery
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Michael Groves, MD

  • Associate Professor
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  • General Otolaryngology
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Heather Koehn, MD

  • Associate Professor
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Edward Porubsky, MD

  • Emeritus Faculty
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Drew Prosser, MD

  • Professor
  • Chief, Pediatric Otolaryngology
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David J. Terris, MD

  • Regents' Professor
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
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Emad Al Haj Ali, MD

  • Assistant Professor
  • General Otolaryngology
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Daniel Sharbel, MD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Head and Neck Surgery
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Sarah Hodge, MD

  • Assistant Professor
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  • Associate Residency Program Director
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Sallie Martin Long, MD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Head and Neck Surgery
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Christopher Johnson, MD

  • Associate Professor
  • Laryngology
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Jason May, MD

  • Associate Professor
  • Pediatric Otolaryngology
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Forest Weir, MD

  • Assistant Professor
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Diana Bigler, MD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery
Diana Bigler is an Otolaryngologist who completed an additional one-year Rhinology and Skull Base fellowship at the Medical College of Georgia. She was born in Oklahoma City, OK and was raised in Bowling Green, KY. She completed her undergraduate Bachelor in Science in Chemistry at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. She attended medical school at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. She completed her 5-year residency training in otolaryngology at the Medical College of Georgia. She specializes in taking care of patients with various inflammatory nasal diseases, skull base masses, and sinus tumors. She has presented her research at numerous local, regional, and national meetings across the country and looks forward to being involved in continuing this in the future.

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