John K. Niparko MD

John K. Niparko, MD is the chair of the USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Dr. Niparko comes to USC from Johns Hopkins University, where he was the inaugural George T. Nager Professor and director of the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery.

In 1993 he launched The Listening Center at Johns Hopkins a center of clinical services and research that has garnered an international reputation for its excellence in cochlear implantation, including advanced surgical techniques and multi-disciplinary approaches to rehabilitation. The Listening Center sponsored NIH-supported research and participation in clinical trials of new generations of implantable devices. The FDA is developing models of device comparison based on these datasets.

Niparko has received numerous awards, including the Deafness Research Foundation’s Annual Hearing Research Award in 2001. He is a past president of the American Otological Society the oldest specialty society in the field and currently serves on the council of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the NIH. He remains on the board of the River School of Washington, D.C., an inclusive educational model for children with hearing loss offering full immersion in classes with typical developing, hearing peers.