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Resident
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Isabelle Gengler, MD, MSc is a PGY-3 resident in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Cincinnati, where she arrived in July 2019 after completing her first residency in Otolaryngology in France. She received her medical training in France where she graduated with an additional masters degree in biomedical research. She spent a year as an international exchange student at the Medical University of South Carolina where she also worked as a volunteer research assistant in cardiothoracic surgery. Upon her return to France, she matched into ENT residency at the Medical University of Lille, where she completed a 6-year post-graduate training program. When she was a 3rd-year ENT resident, she was awarded a research grant to pursue her work on purification and characterization of tissue eosinophils in chronic rhinosinusitis, and studied the impact of asthma on the membranous phenotype of tissue eosinophils at the University of Paris-East-Creteil. She graduated from residency with high honors after defending a thesis on the impact of sociodemographic determinants on the development of ambulatory sinus surgery. Dr Gengler then became the first French resident to pass the European Board of Otolaryngology (EBE-HNS), becoming a fellow of the European Board in 2017. She decided to continue her surgical training in the United States and matched in Cincinnati, where she has pursued clinical and translational research, focusing on inflammatory diseases of the nose and sinuses and growing more active within the facial plastics research group led by Dr Ryan Collar, MD, MBA and Dr Tsung-yen Hsieh, MD with whom she developed a specific interest for surgical reconstruction after Mohs. Reflecting on her breadth of clinical, surgical and research experience, both in the US and in Europe, Dr Gengler plans to pursue fellowship training in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.