Michael J. Sillers, M.D. graduated from the University of Alabama in 1984 and received his M.D. from the University of Alabama in 1988. He completed an internship in general surgery and a residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham in 1993. He completed his training as a fellow in rhinology and sinus surgery at the Medical College of Georgia and joined the faculty at UAB in 1994. He was promoted to Professor of Surgery in 2003 and held the endowed James J. Hicks Chair in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery until July 2005. He is currently the founder and director of the Alabama Nasal and Sinus Center in Birmingham, AL.

Dr. Sillers has served on the American Rhinologic Society Board of Directors since 1999 and is currently serving a one-year term as President. He has also served on the Rhinology and Paranasal Sinus Committee and received an Honor Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in 2001. He has been listed as one of America’s top doctors (Castle and Connolly Medical LTD), is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, and has been named faculty member of the year in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery on several occasions at UAB.

Dr. Sillers has published numerous peer review articles in the field of rhinology and sinus surgery and is an invited lecturer at educational courses around the country and abroad. He serves as a peer reviewer for the American Journal of Rhinology, Laryngoscope, and the Archives of Otolaryngology. His clinical research interests include surgical navigation and extended applications of transnasal endoscopic surgery. His basic science interests involve microarray analysis of inflammatory mediators in chronic rhinosinusitis.