UConn Health is building a specialty sinus practice as part of its ear, nose and throat practice.
Drs. Seth Brown and Belachew Tessema are seeing patients at the UConn Health Outpatient Pavilion, on lower Farmington campus.
They bring their expertise to treat complex problems such as sinonasal disorders, sinusitis, nasal polyps and sinus tumors.
“Drs. Brown and Tessema allow us to offer surgical and nonsurgical treatment of the most complex sinus problems right here at UConn,” says Dr. Denis Lafreniere, medical director of UConn Health’s faculty practice. Both are well known in the community and to our students and residents, as they’ve been part of our faculty for years.”
Brown is a UConn School of Medicine graduate and teaches UConn residents as site director for UConn’s residency program at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. He did his residency training in otolaryngology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed a rhinology fellowship in advanced endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery at Cornell University’s Weill Medical College.
Tessema also is a UConn School of Medicine graduate who did his surgical and otolaryngology training in New York City – at the Beth Israel Medical Center and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. His fellowship training in rhinology and advanced endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery was at the University of Miami. Tessema is a clinical assistant professor in UConn Health’s Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology.
Both are board certified in otolaryngology.
Brown and Tessema currently see sinus patients at UConn Health on alternating Fridays. They expect to extend those hours as the practice grows.