Welcome to the Northwestern University
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Northwestern University has an outstanding Academic Medical Center that is investing heavily in clinical and research facilities. Northwestern’s residency program provides a balanced clinical caseload and experience that extends in variety from the real “ER” at Cook County Hospital, to taking call for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In addition to John Stroger-Cook County Hospital, our full-time faculty members staff the Otolaryngology – HNS services at Children’s Memorial and Northwestern Memorial Hospitals. Therefore, residents are often working with the same faculty members throughout their different hospital experiences. The housestaff practice, attended at all times by a faculty member, is in a high quality ambulatory practice setting.

We attract all types of patients from a wide geographical area, ranging from young professionals and leaders of corporate America, to the fascinating mix of clinical problems seen in a large urban environment in patients who challenge our management and operative skills with multi-system diseases. This diverse case experience provides our residents with the requisite skills to assess and care for all kinds of patients. Our faculty members are committed to offering the finest patient care, and resident-faculty interactions are close and collegial. In these surroundings, with commitment to excellence and resources for growth, the otolaryngology training program is flourishing. We work in an environment that we truly enjoy and while we work hard, our location and culture make it possible to enjoy a terrific lifestyle.

We encourage you to visit the rest of our site for more detailed information on what our program, the faculty, the University, our affiliated hospitals, and the Chicagoland area have to offer.

Sincerely,

Robert C. Kern, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine