Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Department of Otolaryngology
Dr. Stapleton is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is the Fellowship Director for the Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship Program. She completed two fellowship training programs. The first was in Pediatric Otolaryngology and the second was in Open and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery. Her specialty interest is in pediatric patients with chronic sinusitis, cystic fibrosis, and skull base tumors. Her clinical research focuses on pediatric sinusitis, the microbiome of the sinuses, and cystic fibrosis. She also conducts translational research to improve patient outcomes within these disease pathologies. Dr. Stapleton is the director of the Pediatric Comprehensive Advanced Rhinology Clinic. The Center focuses on patients with advanced Sinonasal disease: cystic fibrosis, immune deficiency disorders, sinonasal tumors, mucoceles, frontal sinus disease, infectious complications and nasal polyps. She provides medical and surgical care for pediatric patients with skull base tumors in conjunction with the skull base team.