Ron Kuppersmith, MD, FACS, is a board certified Otolaryngologist and has practiced in the Bryan-College Station area of Texas since 2003. He is a clinical faculty member of the Texas A&M Health Science Center. From 1999 to 2003, he practiced in Seattle, Washington at the Virginia Mason Medical Center, a tertiary care center for otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and served on the clinical faculty of the University of Washington Medical School. Dr. Kuppersmith is among the first surgeons in North America to successfully perform robot-assisted endoscopic thyroid surgery using the daVinci Surgical System.
Dr. Kuppersmith has served as the President of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, as President of the Texas Association of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and on the Board of Trustees of the College Station Medical Center. He has served as a Senior Examiner for the American Board of Otolaryngology. He has received numerous awards including being selected by his peers for inclusion in the “Best Doctors in America”, Texas Super Doctors as published in Texas Monthly, the “Guide to America’s Top Physicians” by the Consumers’ Research Council of America, a Distinguished Service Award and an Honor Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
He has served on the Editorial Boards of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Laryngoscope, Clinica
Dr. Kuppersmith attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for his undergraduate degree and for medical school. He completed his residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas which included service at the Methodist Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas Childrens Hospital, Ben Taub General Hospital and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center.