Our Residents/Fellows

• Dental School: MGM Dental College & Hospital, Navi Mumbai, India
• OMFS Residency: MGM Institute of Health Sciences, Navi Mumbai, India
• Hometown: Jabalpur, India
• Favorite Procedure: Maxillofacial Trauma
• What are you most looking forward to this year? To work with a great team and learn from the legends in the field.
• Fun fact: I love playing soccer and video games which helps me sharpen my reflexes for surgery as well.

• Dental School:  University of Toronto
• OMFS Residency: University of Oklahoma
• Hometown: Toronto
• Favorite Procedure: Hard to say...
• What are you most looking forward to this year? Ablative and reconstruction surgery
• Fun Fact about yourself: I don't drink coffee.

• Dental School: Hebrew University – Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
• OMFS Residency: Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel – under the mentorship of Prof. Nardi Caspi
• Hometown: Israel
• Favorite Procedure: Orthognathic surgery—I'm truly passionate about correcting skeletal growth deformities and facial asymmetries.
• What are you most looking forward to this year? I’m really excited to start my fellowship at Willis-Knighton, learning from a legend in craniomaxillofacial surgery - Dr. Ghali, and working alongside such a talented and welcoming team. I’m especially looking forward to growing my skills in craniofacial surgery and making the most of every learning opportunity
• Fun Fact about yourself: I’m a hardcore chocolate addict. Every December for me - it’s Harry Potter marathon time. If I weren’t a maxillofacial surgeon, I’d probably be an artist. My movie heroes are Mushu from Mulan, Miguel from Coco, and Judy Hopps from Zootopia—tiny but mighty, with big dreams and even bigger hearts!

• 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, DDS

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

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.

Omar Alejandro Peña-Ruiz, DDS

• 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.

Joonho Phiyo, DDS

• Dental school: LSU School of Dentistry
• Hometown: Lafayette, Louisiana
• Favorite Procedure: Whichever one I am a part of!
• What are you looking forward to this year: Learning full scope Oral Maxillofacial Surgery from the best.
• Fun fact about myself:  I love to line dance and tinkering with electronics.