Murray Ramanathan is a Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Neurosurgery and serves as the Vice Chair for Clinical Operations where he oversees clinical and surgical delivery of otolaryngologic care for Johns Hopkins Medicine which spans 5 hospitals and 9 ambulatory sites in both Baltimore and the Washington DC metro regions. Murray attended Yale for his undergraduate degree, The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for medical school and completed his Otolaryngology Residency and Rhinology/Endoscopic Skull Base Fellowship at Johns Hopkins. He has a busy clinical practice that focuses on endoscopic approaches for chronic sinusitis, nasal tumors and a special emphasis on collaborative endoscopic skull base surgery.  As co-fellowship director of the Johns Hopkins rhinology fellowship, Murray has helped train more than 15 rhinology fellows.  Murray also runs an NIH R01 funded lab in Baltimore that studies the role of air pollution in chronic rhinosinusitis from both a basic science and epidemiological perspective. On a national level, Murray serves as the chair of the mentorship committee for the American Rhinologic Society and is the chair of the General Section of the CORE grants program for the AAO-HNS.