Felicity Madeleine Bever Lenes-Voit, MD $$

Pediatric Otolaryngologist (ENT)

Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Service Chief at Children's Health

Languages Spoken:
English

Locations

UT Southwestern Pediatric Group

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Biography

Felicity Lenes-Voit, M.D., is a pediatric otolaryngologist at Children’s Health℠ and Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at UT Southwestern. She specializes in ear, nose and throat, head and neck surgery. She has a special interest in infant feeding, childhood sleep and breathing disorders and sinus surgery.

Helping foster or restore functions such as hearing, speaking, feeding and breathing in children is incredibly rewarding, especially because I know that some of the work we do with parents and kids will help them in their lives for many decades.
Felicity Lenes-Voit, MD

She earned her medical degree at Yale School of Medicine and completed residency training in otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery and fellowship training in pediatric otolaryngology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

"Helping foster or restore functions such as hearing, speaking, feeding and breathing in children is incredibly rewarding, especially because I know that some of the work we do with parents and kids will help them in their lives for many decades,” says Dr. Lenes-Voit.

Her research interests include infant feeding, tonsillectomy quality improvement and treatment of tongue-tie. She lectures at UT Southwestern Medical School, teaching medical students about pediatric otolaryngology technology, treatments and innovations. She has been ranked as a Texas Super Doctor – Rising Star by Texas Monthly magazine twice.

Dr. Lenes-Voit enjoys baking bread and other real-life science experiments with her children. She is proud to have been a milk donor to the Mother’s Milk Bank of North Texas, helping to improve the health and survival of infants. She also mentors doctors and surgeons and is interested in workplace equity and supporting trainees in their present and future family-building. She collaborates with her engineer husband daily in running their household and occasionally on research projects.

Education and Training

Medical School
Yale University School of Medicine (2013)
Residency
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (2018), Otolaryngology
Fellowship
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (2019), Pediatric Otolaryngology
Board Certification
American Board of Otolaryngology

Departments and Programs

  • Research Interests

    • Sleep and breathing disorders
    • Pediatric otolaryngology
    • Airway conditions
    • Difficult airways
  • Publications

    • Nationwide tracheostomy among neonatal admissions - A cross-sectional analysis. Guirguis F, Chorney SR, Wang C, Lenes-Voit F, Shah GB, Mitchell RB, Johnson RF. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2022 Jan;152:110985. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2021.110985. Epub 2021 Nov 15
    • Perioperative Outcomes After Tracheostomy Placement Among Complex Pediatric Patients. Davidson C, Jacob B, Brown A, Brooks R, Bailey C, Whitney C, Chorney S, Lenes-Voit F, Johnson RF. Laryngoscope. 2021 Aug;131(8):E2469-E2474. doi: 10.1002/lary.29402. Epub 2021 Jan 19.
    • Rare Earth Metal Magnets: An Unusual Airway Foreign Body. Solis RN, Lenes-Voit F, Mitchell RB, Shah G. Ear Nose Throat J. 2020 Sep;99(8):NP87-NP88. doi: 10.1177/0145561319856005. Epub 2019 Jun 10.
    • The Incidence of Pediatric Tracheostomy and Its Association Among Black Children. Brown C, Shah GB, Mitchell RB, Lenes-Voit F, Johnson RF. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2021 Jan;164(1):206-211. doi: 10.1177/0194599820947016. Epub 2020 Aug 11.
  • Professional Activities

    • Texas Monthly Super Doctors, Rising Star (2020)
    • Chief Resident Research Award (2017-2018)
  • Awards and Honors

    • Texas Monthly Super Doctors, Rising Star (2020)
    • Chief Resident Research Award (2017-2018)

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