Duane Bradley Welling MD, PhD, FACS

Dr. D. Bradley Welling is a neurotologic surgeon in the Otolaryngology Department's Otology and Neurotology Division, located at Mass. Eye and Ear's main campus on Charles Street. He is the Walter Augustus LeCompte Professor and Chair of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of Otolaryngology at Mass. Eye and Ear and Mass General. A graduate of the University of Utah, Dr. Welling completed his Otolaryngology residency at the University of Iowa and a fellowship in Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at the Ear Foundation at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Welling also earned a Ph.D. in Pathobiology from The Ohio State University.

Dr. Welling's clinical interests involve caring for patients with diseases of the ear and lateral cranial base. More specifically, he focuses on hearing loss, cochlear implants, auditory brainstem implants, as well as facial paralysis and deafness related to Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)-associated tumors. Dr. Welling's research efforts primarily focus on NF2-associated vestibular schwannomas.