Charles Abdo, M.D.

Dr. Abdo graduated Louisiana State University School of Medicine and served his internship and residency on the LSU service at Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans. He was chief resident during his senior year and was awarded a one year fellowship in pathology. Dr. Abdo was a full time otolaryngology faculty member at LSU School of Medicine instructing medical students and otolaryngology residents, as well as supervised the Julius Lempert Temporal Bone Laboratory which was founded by a gift of equipment from Dr. Lempert's original New York laboratory. He served in an army evacuation hospital unit (MASH) during the Berlin crises and Vietnam eras.

Dr. Abdo has pioneered many firsts in otolaryngology in Las Vegas and Nevada including the first successful stapes surgery for the restoration of hearing, first LAUP for relief of snoring and others. He was instrumental in obtaining surgical privileges for facial plastic surgery for qualified otolaryngologists at Sunrise Hospital in 1972. Dr. Abdo has served as Secretary of Staff and Chief of Otolaryngology at Sunrise Hospital.