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Andrew J. McWhorter, MD

Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology
Director, LSU Voice Center

533 Bolivar Street, 5th floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: (504) 568-4785
Fax: (504) 568-4460

amcwho1@lsuhsc.edu

Degrees

BE Biomedical Engineering - 1991
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

MD - 1995
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Bio Andrew J. McWhorter is a graduate of Vanderbilt University where he received his Bachelors of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. McWhorter continued his training at Johns Hopkins where he completed his General Surgery internship and his residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. His research elective was completed at MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2001, he completed his fellowship in Laryngology and Care of the Professional Voice under Dr. Robert Ossoff at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Dr McWhorter joined the faculty of LSU in 2001 where he worked to expand The Voice Center created by Dr. George Lyons. He did further training in Belgium, France and Germany with leaders in the field of conservation laryngeal surgery. Dr. McWhorter successfully recruited Dr. Melda Kunduk PhD SLP-CCC to the LSU Voice Center in 2003. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, The Voice Center had plans to expand to Baton Rouge in a new partnership with Our Lady of the Lake Hospital and remains its clinical practice site.

Dr. McWhorter's practice encompasses all areas of laryngology with a special interest in conservation laryngeal surgery. His primary area of research is high speed digital imaging in coordination with Dr. Kunduk.
Clinical Interests Laryngology
Difficult airway management
Care of the professional voice
Endoscopic management of aero-digestive tract cancer
Evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders
Laryngeal Cancer
Research Interests Transmission and expression of HPV in recurrent respiratory papilloma
Selected Publications

Kunduk M, Yan Y, McWhorter AJ, Bless D, Investigation of voice initiation and voice offset characteristics with high-speed digital imaging, Logoped Phoniatr Vocol. 31(3):139-44, 2006.

Holsinger FC, Laccourreye O, Weinstein GS, Diaz EM Jr, McWhorter AJ, Technical refinements in the supracricoid partial laryngectomy to optimize functional outcomes, J Am Coll Surg. 201(5):809-20, 2005 Nov.

Bolt J, Vo QN, Kim WJ, McWhorter AJ, Thomson J, Hagensee ME, Friedlander P, Brown KD, Gilbert J, The ATM/p53 pathway is commonly targeted for inactivation in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) by multiple molecular mechanisms, Oral Oncol. 41(10):1013-20, 2005 Nov.

McWhorter AJ, Hoffman HT, Transoral laser microsurgery for laryngeal malignancies, Curr Probl Cancer 29(4):180-9, 2005 Jul-Aug.

Holsinger FC, McWhorter AJ, Menard M, Garcia D, Laccourreye O, Transoral lateral oropharyngectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsillar region: I. Technique, complications, and functional results, Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 131(7):583-91, 2005 Jul.

McWhorter AJ, Tracheotomy, Timing and Techniques., Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery 11:473-479, 2003.
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