Associate Professor
University of Illinois At Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States
Dr. Heather Weinreich is a board-certified otology, neurotology, and skull base surgeon. Her career path began as a data and research analyst for Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group where she became interested in population medicine and epidemiology. She obtained a Master of Public Health degree followed by medical school at the University of Minnesota. She completed a residency in Otolaryngology from the University of Minnesota. She then traveled to Baltimore for a fellowship in neurotology at Johns Hopkins University and stayed on as a faculty member until 2017. In 2018, Dr. Weinreich moved to Illinois and became a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is a former UIC NIH K12 BIRCWH scholar with a research focus on the role sex differences play in the design and safety of surgical instruments and medical devices. Her lab was a collaborative effort between the Department of Otolaryngology and human factors engineers from the College of Engineering.
In 2024, she transitioned to Stryker and serves as the Director of Medical Safety in Global Quality, Regulatory, and Clinical. She retains an affiliation as an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at UIC.
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Second Victims in Otolaryngology: Protecting Yourself from a Silent Epidemic
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT