Mehta named to top positions to professional otolaryngology organizations

January 4, 2017

1517mehtadeepakr175Texas Children’s Otolaryngologist Dr. Deepak Mehta was recently named to two important positions in professional otolaryngology organizations.

In December, Mehta was elected president of the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children (SENTAC). The December 2018 meeting of SENTAC will be in Houston, giving Texas Children’s otolaryngologists the chance to introduce our city and hospital to more than 200 colleagues and members of the growing professional society.

Mehta also was named program chair for the 2017 American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO) meeting. One of the primary missions of the professional society is to share and disseminate advances and innovations in patient care through the annual meeting and other venues.

Mehta joined Texas Children’s in 2015 from the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, where he was director of the Aerodigestive Program. He was also associate professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Mehta performed his residency at So. Trent Otolaryngology Programme at Nottingham, UK, and a pediatric otolaryngology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. Mehta will see patients at the main campus of Texas Children’s and at the Sugar Land Health Center. Mehta has also been appointed associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.