General Info

Dr. Zara M. Patel is Director of Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Director of the Neurorhinology - Advanced Sinus and Skull Base Surgery Fellowship, Director of the Stanford Initiative to Cure Smell and Taste Disorders, and a Professor of Otolaryngology and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery at Stanford. She was born and raised in St. Louis, completed her MD at the Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Oregon and completed her residency training in otolaryngology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY. After pursuing fellowship training in rhinology and endoscopic skull base surgery at Stanford University, she was recruited to join the Emory University faculty in Atlanta in 2011.