Dr. Madan Kandula is founder and CEO of Milwaukee-based ADVENT, which specializes in office-based treatments for nasal blockage, sinus, snoring and sleep-apnea issues.
Kandula, who is a medical doctor and a board-certified head and neck surgeon, opened his first ENT clinic in Milwaukee in 2004 and is credited with being the first in Wisconsin to perform balloon sinuplasty, pediatric balloon sinuplasty, propel sinus stent placement and PolypVac (in-office nasal polyp removal). ADVENT has since grown to 30 clinics in six states, including five locations in southeastern Wisconsin.
To educate the public about how the three breathing passages need to function, Kandula trademarked the phrase “The Breathing Triangle,” which signifies the importance of the two nostrils and the throat.
“We now have available simple yet game-changing tools that we didn’t have when I was a resident that our profession as a whole hasn’t adopted,” Kandula says. “The outcomes we get with office-based procedures are as good if not better than what we get with surgery and are much less aggressive for the patient. Doing the right thing for our patients means not turning a blind eye to technology that might benefit them.”
