The UI Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery has a long history of tinnitus and hyperacusis treatment and research, encompassing more than three decades of work in this area.
Please check out our International Management of The Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Patient Conference, for more information. Practitioners may direct patients to our Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Clinic and have them call 319-356-2201.
The University of Western Ontario 2024
Alumni of Distinction Award Recipient
Richard Tyler (AUD), BScCSD’74, MScCSD’75
Richard Tyler was trained as a clinical audiologist at The University of Western Ontario and then completed a Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics and The University of Iowa. He worked initially at the Institute of Hearing Research in the United Kingdom and is currently a Professor in both the Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery and in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa. His scientific work includes the quantification of tinnitus, necessary for its investigation, as well as the investigation of different treatments. Dr. Tyler sees tinnitus patients weekly, and hosts an annual Tinnitus Treatment Workshop. He has edited The Tinnitus Handbook (2000), Tinnitus Treatments: Clinical Protocols Tyler, R.S. (Ed.). (2006), and The Consumer Handbook on Tinnitus (2008, 2016). Rich has served on committees for the National Science Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Otolaryngology, and the Veterans Administration.