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Physicians

Richard Wiet, MD; Robert Battista, MD; Arvind Kumar, MD

in the January 2007 issue of Chicago magazine

 

Richard J. Wiet, M.D., F.A.C.S., founded The Chicago Otology Group, Ltd in 1982 (later renamed the Ear Insititue of Chicago, LLC in 2005). He performed the first cochlear implant surgery in Illinois in 1981. Dr. Wiet has also made several surgical instruments for middle and inner ear surgery. He was Chairman of the Section of Otolaryngology at Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois from 1997-2002. He is the Director of the Northwestern University Medical School fellowship program in Otology/ Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery. Dr. Wiet is a Professor in Otolaryngology at Northwestern University in Chicago.

For more information, please see Dr. Wiet's curriculum vitae.

Robert A. Battista, M.D., joined The Ear Institute of Chicago, LLC in August 1997. Prior to joining the group, Dr. Battista was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. At Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Dr. Battista was Head of the Rush Cochlear Implant Team and Director of the Temporal Bone Laboratory. Dr. Battista is an Assistant Professor in Clinical Otolaryngology at Northwestern University.

For more information, please see Dr. Battista's curriculum vitae.

Arvind Kumar, M.D., joined The Ear Institute of Chicago, LLC in July 2002. Prior to joining the group, Dr. Kumar was a Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

For more information, please see Dr. Kumar's curriculum vitae.


 
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