News/Events

Recent Press Releases

• Dr. Robert Battista was recently interviewed for the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois, November 2006 "LifeTimes" newspaper. Click here for the full story...

• Dr. Richard Wiet and Dr. Robert Kazan, a local neurosurgeon, were interviewed in June 2006 regarding surgical treatment of an acoustic neuroma. Click here for the full story...

• Dr. Richard Wiet was interviewed in June 2006 regarding noise and hearing loss. Click here for the full story...

• A young boy with single-sided hearing loss was implanted in April 2005 with a BAHA by Dr. Battista. Click here for the full story...

Recent Televesion Segments

The fitting of a patient with a BAHA, implanted by Dr. Battista was recently featured on NBC5, Chicago:

ABC7, Chicago recently aired a segment about how a cochlear implant has improved the life of a patient implanted by Dr. Battista:

Recent Presentations

January 2006

• Dr. Battista and Jennifer Micheletto, M.S., CCC-A gave course presentation entitled, "Cochlear implantation in patients following hydrocodone/acetaminophen (Vicodin) abuse", to audiologists at the annual Illinois Academy of Audiology Meeting in Chicago, IL on January 24, 2006

February 2006

• Dr. Battista gave a lecture entitled, "The BAHA for Single-Sided Deafness" to Ear, Nose and Throat physicians at the Chicago Laryngological and Otological Society in Chicago, IL on February 6, 2006.

May 2006

• Dr. Ryzenman and Dr. Wiet presented a paper entitled, "Botulinum Toxin Injection and Surgical Intervention for Treatment of Middle Ear and Palatal Myoclonus", at the American Otological Society Meeting in Chicago, IL on May 22, 2006.

Recent Publications

• Jennifer Joy, MA, CCC-A, FAAA, published an article in the regarding the new BAHA device called the Divino. Click here to read the entire article... (To open this article you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you may download a FREE copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader here

• Kim HH, Wiet RJ, Battista RA. Trends in the diagnosis and the management of Meniere's Disease: Results of a survey. Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 132(5):722-6, 2005.

• Ciric I, Zhao J, Rosenblatt S, Wiet R, O'Shaughnessy B. Suboccipital Retrosigmoid Approach for Removal of Vestibular Schwannomas: Facial Nerve Function and Hearing Preservation. Neurosurgery 56:560-570, 2005.

• Kim HH, Kumar A, Battista RA, Wiet RJ. Electrocochleography in patients with Meniere's disease. Am J Otolaryngol 26:128-31, 2005.

• Battista RA. Intratympanic dexamethasone for profound, idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss. Otolarygol Head Neck Surg 132 (6):902-5, 2005.

• Kim HH, Battista RA, Kumar A, Wiet RJ. Should ossicular reconstruction be staged following tympanomastoidectomy. Laryngoscope, 2006;116:47-51.

Recent Events

February 2006

• Dr. Wiet's book, Ear Surgery, Minimizing Risks and Complications was published by Thieme in February 2006. Dr. Wiet is the organizing author and editor.

August 2006

• Drs. Wiet and Battista are co-editors for a book published in August 2006 entitled, Revision Ear Surgery.