New Director for the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Appointed

Dear Colleagues,

It’s with great pleasure that I announce the return to Johns Hopkins Medicine of David W. Eisele, M.D., who was a faculty member from 1988 to 2001 in our Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, as the Andelot Professor of Laryngology and Otology and director of the department, effective March 1, 2012. He will succeed interim director John Niparko, M.D., who has done a magnificent job leading Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery since former director Lloyd Minor, M.D. was named University Provost in August 2009.

Chairman of the University of California, San Francisco’s Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery since leaving Johns Hopkins in 2001, Dave is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Cornell University Medical College. He joined Hopkins’ faculty in 1988, eventually holding appointments not only in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery but also in oncology, and anesthesiology and critical care medicine. A recipient of the Nager Resident Teaching Award while here, he developed a sterling reputation as a clinician, prodigious researcher and superb teacher—which was why the University of California, San Francisco recruited him away in 2001. We’re delighted that he’s “coming home.”

Dave specializes in treating malignant and benign tumors of the head and neck, with special interest in salivary gland neoplasms and disorders. In addition to heading UCSF’s Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, he is Director of the UCSF Head and Neck Cancer Program and President of the UCSF Medical Staff.

The Hopkins department that he now will head remains the premier otolaryngology- head and neck surgery program in the nation (according to U.S. News & World Report), thanks in large measure to the exemplary job that John Niparko has done as its acting leader for the past two years and the faculty in the department. Hopkins is extraordinarily fortunate to have been able to place John at the helm of the department during this interim period, and equally pleased that he will remain chief of the Division of Otology, Audiology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery, as well as director of the Listening Center at Johns Hopkins, internationally renowned for its cochlear implant program.

The accomplishments of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery are among the reasons that The Johns Hopkins Hospital continues to be “The Best of the Best,” and David Eisele will help to ensure that it remains so.

Sincerely,

Edward D. Miller, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine