Dr. Moises Arriaga MD

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Dr. Moisés A. Arriaga's clinical practice and research interests are focused on medical and surgical treatment of disorders of the Ear, Hearing, Balance, Facial Nerve, Acoustic Neuroma, and Skull Base Tumors.  Dr. Arriaga is the Director of Otology – Neurotology and Professor of Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery at Louisiana State University. He is also the Director of the Hearing and Balance Center at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge and the Director of the CNC Hearing and Balance Center at Culicchia Neurological Clinic in New Orleans. Following Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Arriaga developed and currently directs the Cochlear Implant Program at Children's Hospital in New Orleans.
Dr. Arriaga is a native of New Orleans and received his medical education at Brown University Medical School, General Surgery Internship at Ochsner Foundation, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Residency at the University of Pittsburgh, and Neurotology Fellowship at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. From 1991 to 1996 he served as Director of Neurotology for the US Air Force at Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Dr. Arriaga supplemented his medical training with an MBA from Alvernia College in 2004.

Dr. Arriaga is a diplomate of the American Board of Otolaryngology with certification in both Otolaryngology and Neurotology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Fellow of the American Otological Society, Member of the American Neurotology Society and a member of the North American Skull Base Society. He edited or co-edited more than six textbooks, authored more than twenty five book chapters and over 130 publications in scientific journals. He lectures regularly at national and international ear surgery and temporal bone dissection courses and serves on numerous national committees and professional journal review and editorial boards.