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Richard J. Wiet, MD

Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology & Neurosurgery
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Director of Neurotology/Skull Base Surgery Fellowship
Northwestern University Medical School

 

EDUCATION

Medical School Stritch School of Medicine (Loyola University) Chicago, Illinois
1971

Residency

Otolaryngology
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
1971-1976

Fellowships

Otology/Neurotology
Otology Clinic
Beziers, France
Early August, 1978

The London Hospital
London, England
Late August, 1978

University of Zurich, Department of Otolaryngology
Zurich, Switzerland
September, 1978

Otology/Neurotology
The Ear Foundation
Nashville, TN
October 1978-June 1979

BOARD CERTIFICATION

    American Board of Otolaryngology - 1976

    Board of Neurotology - 2003

    CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Northwestern University Medical School
Professor
Department of Otolaryngology

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/HONORS

  • American Board of Otolaryngology, Examiner, 1995-1996, 2005

  • Board of Neurotology, Examiner, 2004-2005

  • Listed as Honored Member, National Directory of Who's Who for Executives and Professionals, 1994-1998

  • Health Sciences Communications Association First Place, 1993, for excellence in media production, Continuing Medical Education for "The Middle Cranial Fossa Approach" videotape in conjunction with Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

  • Fellow of the Hugh Knowles Center, Northwestern University, appointed June, 1993

  • Listed, Chicago Magazine, 500 Best Doctors in Chicago, January 1997

  • Listed, The Best Doctors in America: Midwest Region, Naifeh SW (ed.), Woodward & White, 1996-1997

  • Listed, Best Doctors in America, Naifeh S and Smith GW (eds.), Woodward & White, 1992/1993, 1993/1994, 1994/1995

  • Appointment by James Edgar, Governor of Illinois, to Board of Directors, Illinois Department of Public Health Hearing Aid Consumer Protection Board, 1991-1997

  • American Neurotology Society(1983): appointed to Executive Council, 1990, Program Chair 1992-1994, Secretary-Treasurer Elect 1994, Secretary-Treasurer 1995-1998, President 1999

  • William F. House Society: 1990-1992 Secretary-Treasurer, President-Elect 1992, President 1994-1996

  • American Otological Society (1987)

  • Society of University Otolaryngologists-Head and Neck Surgeons (1994)

    (Click this link for Dr. Wiet's list of publications and professional activities.)


 
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