Todd Otteson, MD, MPH

About

Todd D. Otteson, MD, MPH, FACS, FAAP, is Chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat surgery) and the James Arnold and Nancy and Tom Seitz Chair in Pediatric Otolaryngology at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. He also sees patients at UH Twinsburg, University Suburban and Chagrin Highlands health centers. He is Associate Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Otolaryngology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Dr. Otteson is board certified in otolaryngology. His special interests include ear, nose and throat problems related to esosinophilic esophagitis, correction of cleft palate and craniofacial deformities in babies and children.

A Utah native, Dr. Otteson completed his undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He earned his doctorate in medicine from Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., and served a four-year residency in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center. In his first year of residency, he completed a research fellowship in medicine and endocrinology at Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C. He continued his training as a fellow in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and earned a Master’s of Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Dr. Otteson joined the UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital staff in 2013 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine/Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, where he was Associate Professor and a staff otolaryngologist. At Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Dr. Otteson serves as Assistant Dean, Student Affairs Society Dean, Blackwell McKinley and as a member of the Academy of Scholar Educators. Additionally, he served as School of Medicine’s Interim Associate Dean of Student affairs in 2020.

Dr. Otteson’s research interests are in Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome (EVA), a condition for which he established a national EVA patient registry to widen knowledge for physician scientists and ultimately improve EVA patient outcomes. As part of his research in this area, Dr. Otteson created a hearing loss risk calculator to predict an EVA patient’s likely progression of disease based on current clinical values.

Dr. Otteson has published more than two dozen papers and abstracts in specialized pediatric otolaryngology journals and is a frequent presenter at national meetings of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology. He also has participated in international panel discussions of pediatric ear and throat infections. His research experience includes a National Institutes of Health study on middle ear pressure in healthy and ill children.

Dr. Otteson is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is also a member of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, where he has served on the Development Committee since 2019, and the American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association. Dr. Otteson served as Co-Director of the 28th Annual Tristate Craniofacial Conference in October 2016.