Dr. Zara M. Patel is Director of Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Director of the Stanford Initiative to Cure Smell and Taste Loss, Director of the Neurorhinology Fellowship, and a Professor of Otolaryngology and (by courtesy) Neurosurgery at Stanford. She is an expert in advanced endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery, treating patients with chronic sinus infection or inflammation, sinus disease that has failed medical or surgical therapy, cerebrospinal fluid leaks, benign and malignant sinus and skull base tumors, and olfactory disorders. She completed her MD at Oregon Health and Sciences University, residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and fellowship in rhinology and endoscopic skull base surgery at Stanford. She is currently collaborating with neuroscientists and engineers to develop technology to help cure patients with smell loss.