Office and Contact Information

Children's Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeons of Orange County
1010 W La Veta Ave
Suite 640
Orange, CA 92868
phone: (714) 633-4020
fax: (714) 953-5462
map & directions

Web Site:
www.choc.org/specialists

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Physician Bio

Gurpreet Ahuja, M.D., is the CHOC Children’s Specialists Division Chief of Otolaryngology. Dr. Ahuja attended medical school at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and completed his residency in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, New York, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC.

Dr. Ahuja is board certified in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, a Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of California-Irvine, and is Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology training for UCI’s residency program in Otolaryngology. He is particularly interested in pediatric airway reconstruction, pediatric sinus surgery, childhood hearing loss and congenital head and neck disorders. Dr. Ahuja currently serves as President of the Medical Staff at the CHOC Children’s Hospital (CHOC).

Dr. Ahuja’s honors include Best Doctors of Orange County (Physicians of Excellence): 2000, 2005, and every year since 2008. He has been voted by his peers to Super Doctors of Southern California in 2010 and 2011. He is recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award for 2010 from the residents of the Otolaryngology program at UCI. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Ahuja has co-authored several publications in peer reviewed medical journals. He is actively involved in the Orange County community, serving on the Board of Directors of the OC Human Relations Council.

Dr. Ahuja also speaks Punjabi and Hindi. In his spare time, he enjoys photography, hiking, and traveling with his family.

“As CHOC Children’s embarks on its new phase of growth, I will work with the medical staff on advancing academics, education and research. We will ensure that the very best physicians are afforded the privilege to care for the children of Orange County, and will work on continued refinement of physician performance metrics. I will also make every effort to ensure that CHOC provides an optimal environment for the physicians to work in, securing both physician satisfaction and retention. Ultimately, all my efforts, and those of my colleagues on CHOC’s medical staff, will remain directed at delivering the finest medical care to the children of Orange County.” – Dr. Gurpreet Ahuja, President, CHOC Children’s Medical Staff

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