At Virginia Mason’s Listen for Life Center, there are two full-time, board-certified neurotologists/skull-base surgeons who are highly experienced in all of the conditions we treat.
Neurotologists are surgeons trained to use both medical and surgical interventions to treat diseases affecting the:
The lateral skull base and temporal bone is the bony area surrounding your ear and brain and the space inside your skull between your ear and your brainstem. Diseases affecting this area include vestibular schwannomas, paragangliomas, meningiomas and other more rare tumors.
Seth Schwartz, MD, and Daniel Zeitler, MD, are board-certified otolaryngologists — also called ears, nose and throat (ENT) doctors. In addition, they have both completed extensive fellowship training and have subspecialty board certification in otology and neurotology.
Both are experts in cochlear implants, acoustic neuroma, hearing reconstructive surgery, chronic ear disease, disorders of the facial nerve, and other medical and surgical management of ear problems.
Drs. Schwartz and Zeitler are actively engaged in a number of IRB-approved research projects at the Listen for Life Center. They are constantly collecting data and analyzing outcomes to help shape best practices and provide evidence-based medicine to all patients.
Some of their current research project titles include: