Stilianos E. Kountakis MD, PhD, FACS

Dr. Kountakis received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, Texas and his medical degree from the University of Texas-Houston. He completed a general surgery residency at UT-Houston Medical School, Hermann Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Hospital System of the Texas Heart Institute, and an otolaryngology residency at UT-Houston Medical School, Hermann Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, and MacGregor Medical Associates. He completed a PhD at the University of Crete Medical School. He came to MCG in 2003 from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where he was director of the Division of Rhinology and Virginia Sinus Center.

Dr. Kountakis has served as Vice President of the Southern Section of the Trio logical Society, and as member of the Board of Directors and Past President of the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology-HNS. He is Past President of the American Rhino logic Society and received the society’s 2015 Golden Head Mirror Teaching Award. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy and the International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology. Dr. Kountakis is Editor-in-Chief of the first “Encyclopedia of Otolaryngology-HNS” and has edited 3 additional textbooks, “The Frontal Sinus 2nd edition”, “Rhino logic and Sleep Apnea Surgical Techniques” and “Revision Sinus Surgery”. Dr. Kountakis has published extensively and his research interests include pathophysiology and pathogenesis of sinusitis and polyps, medical and surgical outcomes, and allergic fungal sinusitis. He is consistently ranked among America’s Best Doctors.