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Education:       

Residency:
Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals

Texas Medical Center

Houston, Texas 77030

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery     
July 1, 1983 to June 30, 1986

Chairman: Bobby R. Alford, M.D.

 

Internship:
University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas

Southwestern Medical School

Parkland Memorial Hospital

General Surgery-2 years 
July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1983

 Chairman: William Fry, M.D.

 

Medical School:
Baylor College of Medicine

Texas Medical Center

Houston, TX 77030
July 1977 to May 1981

Degree: Doctor of Medicine with Honors

 

College: 
Tulane University

New Orleans, Louisiana 
1973-1977

 

High School: 
Bellaire Senior High School

Bellaire, Texas
Graduated 1973





Certification:         

Diplomat, American Board of Otolaryngology, October 3, 1986

 

 

Medical Society Memberships:    

American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Diplomat 1986 to present


Texas Medical Association


Harris County Medical Society


Texas Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology


Houston Society of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery


Harris County Council of Specialty Societies, 1994-1995


HONORARY SOCIETIES AND AWARDS:     

Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Society


Awarded Honors for Basic Science Studies at Baylor College of Medicine, 1978


Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society


Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society


Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society (post baccalaureate scholarship recipient)


Tulane Scholars Program

 

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:

Houston Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

 

Secretary – Treasurer:1992-1993

Vice-president: 1993-1994

President: 1994-1995

 

 

Memorial Southwest Hospital

 

Bylaws Committee, 1998

Otolaryngology Section Chairman, 1992, 1994, 1995

Executive Committee, 1992, 1994, 1995

Day Surgery Committee, 1992-1996

Operating Room Committee, 1992, 1994, 1995

Credentials Committee, 1991, 1999, 2000

Laser Committee, 1989-1991

Bylaws Committee, 1998-1999

 

 

Harris County Medical Society                                     

Credentials Committee, 1996

 

 

Doctor’s Surgical Center

Governing Board, 2003-Present

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Supervision of University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Otolaryngology Training Program

Resident – 1986 to Present

 

Supervision of University of Texas Medical Center Houston Family Practice Training Program

Resident – 1986 to Present

 

Teaching Assistant in Cell Biology and Histology at Baylor College of Medicine, 1978.

 

Teaching Assistant in Organic Chemistry at Tulane University, 1976

 

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Shoss, S.M., Ashe, H., and Donovan, D.T., “Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis Involving the Head and Neck.”  Presented at the Annual American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 1985.

 

Shoss, S.M., Donovan, D.T., and Alford, B.R., “Tumors of the Parapharyngeal Space.” Presented to the Fifth Joint meeting of the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery and the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, Cerromar, Puerto Rico, May 1985. Published: Archives of Otolaryngology, 111:753-757,198

 

Bennett, J.W., Lee, L.S., Shoss, S.M., and Boudreaux, G.H., “Identification of Averantin as an Aflatxin B1 Precursor: Placement in the Biosynthetic Pathway, “Applied and Environmental Microbiology 39:835 – 839, 1980.

 

“Binding of mRNA of Novikoff Hepatoma, Normal Liver and Regenerating Rat Liver to c DNA-cellulose,” presented at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in May 1977

 

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