Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Dr. Isaiah is a Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Diagnostic Radiology, and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He is the Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology and is an affiliate faculty at Institute for Health Computing, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Isaiah earned a medical degree in India with multiple honors and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to complete a DPhil (PhD) in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. During doctoral training, he studied brain plasticity using electrophysiological, statistical, computational, and behavioral techniques. Following postdoctoral training (University of Maryland), residency in otolaryngology (University of Maryland), and a clinical fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology (UT Southwestern/Children's Dallas), he joined the faculty at University of Maryland in 2016, rising to a full Professor in 2023. He completed an MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park, receiving the national 'Best and Brightest' recognition from Poets and Quants. He has published widely in sleep disordered breathing (SDB), brain development, and statistical modeling and leads a laboratory funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Isaiah is interested in technology development and has a portfolio of multiple patents related to upper airway obstruction.