Derald E. Brackmann, M.D., is one of the world’s foremost neurotologists experienced in the removal of acoustic neuromas, having removed more than 3,000 since1970. He has been instrumental in the development of the auditory brainstem implant (ABI) program at the House Ear Institute. The ABI allows acoustic neuroma patients who have lost their hearing as a result of the neuroma or subsequent to its removal, to regain hearing in the affected ear. His practice at the House Clinic is limited to otology and neurotology, specializing in diseases of the ear, facial nerve, dizziness and acoustic neuromas.

Dr. Brackmann has served as president of the majority of the societies of his specialty, including the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, the American Neurotology Society, the American Otologic Society, the North American Skull Base Society and the International Skull Base Society. He is clinical professor of otolaryngology head and neck surgery and neurosurgery at the Los Angeles County USC Medical Center. He has received many awards, including Medical Alumnus of the Year at the University of Illinois, University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award and the Award of Merit of the American Otologic Society. He is a member of numerous societies of his specialty and is also an honorary member of the Otolaryngology Society of Australia and the Royal Society of Medicine of England. In addition to authoring over 300 scientific articles and book chapters, he is the editor or co-editor of four textbooks and is a co-editor of a yearly series entitled Advances in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.

Dr. Brackmann was born in a small town in central Illinois. His primary education was completed there prior to his family moving to Champaign, Illinois, where he graduated from high school and attended the University of Illinois for undergraduate training. He graduated from the University of Illinois, College of Medicine. After one year of internship and residency in Chicago, he was inducted into the United States Air Force, where he served as a flight surgeon for more than two years.

Following completion of his military duty, he completed residency training in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles County Medical Center in Los Angeles. Following a clinical fellowship in Otology and Neurology at the House Ear Clinic and Institute, Dr. Brackmann joined the House Clinic, where he has been in practice until the present time. Dr. Brackmann resides with his wife of more than fifty years in South Pasadena, California.