

Michael Armstrong, MD
Rhinology Fellow
This one-year fellowship program provides comprehensive training in the medical and surgical management of sinonasal inflammatory disease, anterior and central skull base lesions (utilizing both endoscopic and/or open management), allergic disease, and orbital pathology.
During the NeuroRhinology-Advanced Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery fellowship, the fellow is expected to further refine an existing knowledge base by continued reading and by taking an active role in the education of other learners.
The fellows actively participate in a wide array of surgical procedures. The operative experience includes primary and revision endoscopic sinus surgery, endoscopic and open frontal sinus surgery, endoscopic septoplasty, orbital decompression, as well as endoscopic CSF leak and encephalocele repair. The fellows also participate in expanded endoscopic cases of midline and the anterior skull base, including surgery of the pituitary, suprasellar cistern, olfactory groove, clivus/upper spine and infratemporal fossa. In addition, the fellows have an opportunity to perform open approaches for tumor pathology of the skull base.
Fellows are provided feedback on a daily basis after cases and clinic visits. Formal evaluations are performed biannually of the fellowship-training program, fellowship faculty, as well as of the fellows. Fellows are also required to self-evaluate on a biannual basis. Case logs are monitored and reviewed twice a year.
The NeuroRhinology fellows at UNC interact in a very collaborative manner. They rotate between 2 distinct services and do not compete for any cases or clinic coverage. We have a strong commitment to team with excellent camaraderie, which requires helping each other take care of necessary add on cases that arise during the week.
Fellowship Directors:
Charles S. Ebert, Jr., MD, MPH, FACS, FAAOA, FARS
Email: cebert@med.unc.edu (Please copy Danielle Pocket, email below)
Adam Kimple, MD, PhD, FACS, FARS
Email: adam_kimple@med.unc.edu (Please copy Danielle Pocket, email below)
Fellowship Coordinator:
Danielle Pocket
Phone: (919) 966-3344
Fax: (919) 966-7941
Email: danielle_pocket@med.unc.edu
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Rhinology Fellow
Rhinology Fellow
Associate Director, NeuroRhinology, Advanced Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery Fellowship
Director, Residency Program
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery
2011-2012
Rhinologist at SUNY Up-State
Syracuse, NY
2012-2013
Chief of Rhinology at Case-Western Reserve
Cleveland, OH
2013-2014
Rhinologist at ENT Associates of Greater Kansas City
Kansas City, KS
2015-2016
Rhinology-Skull Base Surgery
Mt Sinai, NY
2016-2017
Rhinologist at Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
2017-2018
Chairman, Chief, and Assistant Professor Department of Otolaryngology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Portsmouth, VA
2018-2019
Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery at LSU
Baton Rouge, LA
2018-2019
Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery at the Barrow Institute
Phoenix, AZ
2014-2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Icahn School of Medicine
Mount Sinai, NY
2015-2016
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Oklahoma University College of Medicine
Oklahoma City, OK
2019-2020
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
2020-2021
2020-2021
Rhinology and Skull Base Fellow
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2019-2020
Mercy Health System
Cincinnati, OH
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Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery
Associate Professor
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