Our Residents/Fellows

• Combined Fellow
• Dental School: University of Florida
• OMFS Residency: Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Academic Medical Center
• Hometown: Gainesville, Florida
• Favorite Procedure: Orthognathic (jaw) surgery, total joint replacement, free flap surgery (reconstructive tissue transfer)
• What are you most looking forward to this year? Training with the best extended scope head and neck surgeons in all disciplines of oral and maxillofacial surgery. 
• Fun fact: I worked in investment banking and maintain my own portfolio.

• Research Fellow
• Dental School: Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon - School of Dentistry
• Hometown: Monterrey, NL, Mexico
• What are you most looking forward to this year? I am looking forward to gain experience of how to manage patients perioperatively and work within a Program that has under its belt a broad scope of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: from a simple Dental Extraction to a Thyroidectomy or Cranial Vault Remodeling, amongst others. Also, I would like to develop my previous abstracts projects into full manuscripts.
• Fun Fact: I am ambidextrous.

• Dental School: University of Illinois (UIC) at Chicago College of Dentistry 
• Hometown: Naperville, IL 
• Favorite procedure: Cheilorhinoplasty Surgery 
• What are you most looking forward to this year? Learning about intubation and managing airways on my Anesthesia rotations and I’m really looking forward to Head & Neck Cancer and Craniofacial rotations with Dr. Ghali.
• Fun fact about me: I’m an identical twin

• Dental School: LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry 
• Hometown: Homer, LA 
• Favorite procedure: All of the above 
• What are you most looking forward to this year? Working with the new incoming residents
• Fun fact about me: I love to read historical non-fiction

• Dental School: UT Health Houston School of Dentistry
• Medical School: LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine
• What I am looking forward to: I am most looking forward to being a part of cutting edge maxillofacial reconstruction surgeries such as Jaw in a Day and working alongside world-renowned surgeons. I am also interested in helping shape the culture of a new residency program alongside my co-residents and fellows.
• Fun fact: I speak Spanish, French, Russian, and Mandarin

F. Spencer Willis, III, DDS

• Dental School: Louisiana State University Health Science Center New Orleans School of Dentistry

• Dental School: University of Tennessee 
• Hometown: Cabot, Arkansas
• Favorite procedure: Repairing mandibular fractures 
• What are you most looking forward to this year? Broad scope exposure and early operating experience
• Fun fact about me: I’m an ordained minister.

• Dental School: University of Tennessee
• Hometown: Cookeville, Tennessee
• Favorite procedure: Implant cases
• What are you most looking forward to this year? Getting hands-on experience and building clinical knowledge by working with new attending physicians.
• Fun fact about me: I have gone scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef.

Muhannad “Mo” Ghazal, DDS

• Dental School: VCU School of Dentistry 
• Hometown: Gaza Strip, Palestine 
• Favorite procedure: free fibula flap 
• What are you most looking forward to this year? sleepless nights and crippling anxiety 
• Fun Fact: I'm avid DIY car mechanic

Ada Mandapat, DDS

• Dental School: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
• Hometown: Makati City, Philippines
• Favorite Procedure: Still exploring! I'm just glad to be in the OR. There’s something meaningful about the idea that every incision is an opportunity to learn and heal.
• What are you most looking forward to this year? Getting my hands dirty (in a sterile way), seeing cases and procedures I have only read about come to life. 
• Fun Fact about yourself: I drove 36 hours straight from the PNW to Louisiana. Just me, a playlist, my snacks, and every emotion possible with one goal: make it to residency orientation.

• Dental School: University of California, San Francisco
• Hometown: Oakland, California
• Favorite Procedure: All things orthognathic (jaw) surgery!
• What are you most looking forward to this year? I’m looking forward to working with Dr. Ghali Ghali and the team, exploring Louisiana and learning more about surgery.
• Fun Fact about yourself: My family is originally from Ethiopia (the birthplace of coffee).

• Dental School: Western University
• Hometown: San Diego
• Favorite Procedure: Trauma procedures
• What are you most looking forward to this year? Learning from the greatest surgeons!
• Fun Fact about yourself: I’m always the mom of the group. I always have snacks, medicine, hand sanitizer and everything else in my bag.