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William C. Yao, MD

Associate Professor
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Houston, TX, United States

William Yao, MD is an associate professor in the Department Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Yao received his medical degree at the University of Colorado Health Science Center School of Medicine, where he was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 2008. He completed his residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, where he was recognized with the 2014 Resident Teaching Award. He subsequently completed a fellowship in rhinology and anterior skull base surgery at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School.

Fluent in English and Japanese, Dr. William Yao serves as a co-director of the Texas Sinus Institute Rhinology and Skull Base Fellowship and Residency Program Director for the Department of Otorhinolaryngology. He has a strong interest in surgical technique, residency education, including the development of teaching instruments and is the author of chapters in many textbooks, as well as numerous articles published in peer-reviewed journals (including The Laryngoscope, International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology, American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy, and Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery). He has also been awarded the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award from the McGovern Medical School every year since 2017 and the Faculty of the Year Award on multiple occasions. He has been named a Houstonia Top Doctor, Castle Connolly Top Doctor and a Texas Super Doctor Rising Star for several years. Dr. Yao’s clinical practice specializes in the disorders of the nose, sinus and skull base. He remains devoted to delivering cutting edge medical and surgical management for chronic rhinosinusitis, paranasal sinus diseases, as well as advanced endoscopic sinus surgery, revision sinus surgery, skull base and orbital surgery.

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