Dr. Melinda Thacker
Otolaryngologist
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Dr. Melinda Thacker is an otolaryngologist practicing at UMass Memorial Health in Worchester, Massachusetts.
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Episode # 231 • 15 Jul 2025
Improving Surgical Outcomes Through Self-Awareness
Let’s talk about what it really means to show up for your patients—and yourself—as a surgeon. In this episode of Backtable ENT, Dr. Mel Thacker, an otolaryngologist and founder of The Empowered Surgeon and the Surgeons with a Purpose Podcast, joins hosts Dr. Gopi Shah and Dr. Ashley Agan to discuss humanity in surgery, and how to stay grounded in a profession that demands so much of us.
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About
Dr. Thacker is originally from Wisconsin. She graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin with a BS in Biology and Spanish in 2002, then attended the Medical College of Wisconsin and graduated with honors in 2007. She completed residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in 2012 at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She then obtained advanced endoscopic sinus surgical training at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton. She pursued additional education in Plant-Based Nutrition through Cornell University. She is double board certified in both Otolaryngology and Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Thacker incorporates evidence-based lifestyle intervention with traditional evidence-based conventional approaches to treat patients. She primarily practices rhinology (nose and sinus disorders) with interests in chronic sinusitis, laryngopharyngeal reflux, sinus surgery, nasal airway surgery, office-based procedures, and therapeutic lifestyle intervention.
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