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Geisinger Health System Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Residency · Danville, PA

Sponsored by Geisinger Health System · Director Aileen Wertz

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Class size
3
Visas
J-1, H-1BH-1B for some
PGY-1 salary
$70k2026 to 2027

Green flags

  • Fills every seat. Every seat filled in each of the last 5 Matches.
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Getting in

Who started, by class

Started 20251 on record of 3 seats
  • Demi Zapata-Gerken

Training

3 training sites. Graduates on record most often went on to pediatric otolaryngology.

Months at each site

  • Geisinger Medical Center60 mo
  • Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center48 mo

Where graduates went next

  • Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship4
  • Facial Plastic Surgery Fellowship2
  • Head And Neck Oncology Fellowship2
  • Sleep Medicine Fellowship2
  • 2022: Completed Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship At Children’S Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Fellowship1
  • Diagnostic Radiology Residency1

Where graduates work now

  • Geisinger6
  • Ascension Columbia St Mary's Hospitals1
  • Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center1
  • Ceenta1
  • Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority1
  • Christopher Tiu MD Pllc1

Research

82% of current residents have a paper since 2023

9 of 11, 41 papers between them

  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Sinusitis and nasal conditions
  • Voice and Speech Disorders
  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research

People

Leadership

  • Aileen WertzDirector, Residency Program
  • James AzeredoAssistant Director, Residency Program

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Faculty, residents, graduates and the people residents publish with.

Place

Summers reach 85°, winters fall to 20°. About 27 inches of snow a year.

Weather by month

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Commute

45k people live within 20 minutes of Geisinger Medical Center by car with no traffic.

Cost of living

A one bedroom rents for about $990 a month within 10 miles of Geisinger Medical Center.

Publishes with residents

  • Kenneth AltmanOtolaryngology, 5 residents
  • Ryan HellumsPlastic Surgery within the Head & Neck, 4 residents
  • Priscilla PichardoOtolaryngology, 4 residents
  • Thorsen HaugenOtolaryngology, 3 residents