Celebrating Excellence in Otolaryngology

Richard L. Doty, PhD

Dr. Doty is a professor in the department of otorhinolaryngology: head and neck surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins Medical School.

He headed Penn’s Smell and Taste Center for nearly 50 years and founded Sensonics International, the world’s leading manufacturer of chemosensory tests. He is an author or coauthor of more than 500 professional publications (including 12 books and contributions to such publications as Science, Nature, The Lancet, and the Encyclopedia Britannica). Among his books are The Great Pheromone Myth (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), Neurology of Olfaction (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and Smell and Taste Disorders (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is editor of the Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation (John Wiley, 3rd edition, 2015), a 2000+ page tome considered to be the bible of the chemical senses field. He invented the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT), a standardized olfactory test that has been translated into more than 60 languages and heralded as the olfactory equivalent of the eye chart. He recently developed the first waterless empirical taste test (WETT), which, like the UPSIT, can be self-administered and sent to subjects through the mail.

He has received numerous awards, including the James A. Shannon Award from the National Institutes of Health, the Olfactory Research Fund’s Scientific Sense of Smell Award, the William Osler Patient-Oriented Research Award from the University of Pennsylvania, the Society of Cosmetic Chemists’ Service Award, the Association for Chemoreception Science’s Max Mozell Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Chemical Senses, and the 2024 ScholarGPS’s Highly Ranked Scholar award (Olfaction #1, Otolaryngology #4).

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Guest of Honor Jacques A. Herzog, MD

Dr. Herzog is a professor and chief of the division of otology/neurotology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., where he leads one of the largest cochlear implant programs in the U.S. and is the assistant dean for community-based medical education. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, the American Neurotology Society, the Triological Society, and the American Otologic Society.

Dr. Herzog contributed to the pioneering development of multichannel cochlear implantation in the U.S., establishing a lifelong commitment to advancing hearing restoration. He founded the Center for Hearing and Balance Disorders, a program that achieved national recognition for its leadership in cochlear implantation and comprehensive otologic and neurotologic care.