Douglas J. Totten, MD

Hanover, Indiana

 

Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Undergraduate: Carleton College, bachelor’s in chemistry

MBA: Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, concentrations in health care and operations and analytics

 

My interest in ENT was initially sparked at 12 years of age when I had a tympanomastoidectomy to remove a pretty gnarly cholesteatoma. (I recently went back and read the op note!) As a result, I wanted to check out ENT. I immediately felt at home with the attendings, residents, and OR and have continued to dive deeper into the field and get more excited about my future career as time has passed.

 

In addition to being close to home and in a city that I’m extremely fond of, IU School of Medicine has such a broad capture area, a great mix of hospitals all close together, an excellent reputation, a wide variety of cases, and a fantastic and motivated group of leaders and residents, particularly in the ENT department!

 

How to be a world-class surgeon. Most of my research has been in ears, so I’ll be excited for those cases, too. Overall, I’m simply excited to learn more than I can fathom at the moment.

 

Distance/marathon running (I recently qualified for the Boston Marathon while running Carmel!); homebrewing; music (guitar/piano/tenor sax/others); sports (pretty much all of them; particularly football, and, of course, basketball as a Hoosier).