Rick A. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.

CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • State of the Art management of acoustic neuroma and meningioma
  • Surgery of acoustic neuroma after failed radiation
  • Menieres disease medical and surgical management
  • Surgery for otosclerosis
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Friedman RA, Brackmann DE, Mills D. Auditory-nerve Integrity After Middle-Fossa Acoustic-tumor Removal. Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, 1998;119 Number 6:588-592

Friedman RA, Brackmann DE. The middle cranial fossa approach to vestibular schwannomas. Operative Techniques in Neurosurgery 2001:4;30-35.

Friedman RA, Kesser B, Brackmann DE, Hitselberger WE. Hearing preservation in patients with sudden hearing loss and vestibular schwannoma. Otol Head Neck Surg 2001;125:544-551.

Friedman RA, Kesser B, Brackmann DE, Fisher LM, Slattery WH, Hitselberger WE Long-term hearing preservation after middle fossa removal of vestibular schwannoma. Otolaryngoly Head Neck Surg. 2003 Dec;129(6):660-5.

Bassim, M., Berliner, K., Fisher, L., Brackmann, D., Friedman, RA Radiation Therapy for the treatment of Vestibular Schwanomma: A Critical Evaluation of The State of Literature. Otology Neurotology 2010 June.

Friedman RA, Brackmann DE, Hitselberger WE, Schwartz MS, Iqbal Z, Berliner KI. Surgical salvage after failed irradiation for vestibular schwannoma.Laryngoscope. 2005 Oct;115(10):1827-32.

Friedman RA, van Laer, L, Huentelman, MJ, Sheth, SS, van Eyken, E, Corneveaux, JJ, Tembe, WD, Halperin, RF, Thorburn, AQ, Thys, S, Bonneux, S, Fransen, E, Huyghe, J, Pyykkö, I, Cremers, CWRJ, Kremer, H, Dhooge, I, Stephens, D, Orzan, E, Pfister, M, Bille, M, Parving, A, Sorri, M, van de Heyning, PH, Makmura, L, Ohmen, JD, Linthicum, FH, Fayad, JN, Pearson, JV, Craig, DW, Stephan, DA, van Camp, G. GRM7 Variants confer susceptibility to age-related hearing impairment. Hum Mol Genet. 2008 Dec

Niu H, Li Xin, Makmura L, Friedman RA, Mapping of genetic modifiers of Eya1bor/bor in CAST/EiJ and BALB/cJ that suppress cochlear aplasia and associated deafness. Mammalian Genome, 2008. Accepted for publication.

White, C.H., Ohmen, J.D., Sheth, S., Zebboudj, A., McHugh, R.K., Hoffman, L.F., Lusis, A.J., Davis, R.C., Friedman, R.A., Genome-wide Screening for Genetic Loci Associated with Noise-Induced Hearing Loss. (Mammalian Genome 2009)

Floyd JA, Gold DA, Concepcion D, Poon TH, Wand X, Keithley E, Chen D, Ward EJ, Chinn SB, Friedman RA, Yu H, Moriwaki K, Shiroishi T, Hamilton BA. A natural allele of NxF1/TAP suppresses retroviral insertional mutations. Nat Genet. 2003 Nov;35(3):221-8. Epub 2003 Sep 28.