Judith White, MD, PhD, is  board-certified in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.  She completed her residency at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and her PhD at the University of Southern California. Dr. White is  Head, Section of Vestibular and Balance Disorders in the Head and Neck Institute at Cleveland Clinic. She was Director of the Vestibular Program at Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts before coming to the Cleveland Clinic in 2003. 

Dr. White  also serves as Director of the Vestibular Fellowship Program, and has a joint academic appointment in the Departments of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Neurology in Lerner College of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. White lectures nationally and internationally and has published extensively on vestibular conditions including benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, Meniere's, migraine associated vertigo and superior semicircular canal dehiscence.  Dr. White also serves as a member of the Equilibrium Committee of American Academy of Otolaryngology from 2000-2006 and 2008-present.

• Nicholas Torok Award for Innovative Vestibular Research of the Year, American Neurotology Society, 2006

Residency - Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Otolaryngology
Boston, MA USA
1994

Internship - Saint Elizabeth Medical Center

General Surgery
Boston, MA USA
1990

Medical School - University of Massachusetts Medical School

Worcester, MA USA
1989

Doctorate - University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA USA
1983

Undergraduate - Cornell University

Ithaca, NY USA
1977

• Otolaryngology

• Nicholas Torok Award of the American Neurotology Society for Innovative Vestibular Research in 2006
• Cited in "America's Top Physicians", 2007, 2008 
• Honor award for volunteer service, American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2009

• Vibration-induced nystagmus to diagnose superior semicircular canal dehiscence

• Fellow, American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
• Fellow, American Neurotology Society
• Associate, American Academy of Neurology

• Intratympanic Steroid Injection

• Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
• Dizziness
• Meniere's Disease
• Vestibular Disorders

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