Daniel Lee MD

Otologist-Neurotologist

Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Dr. Daniel Lee is a pediatric and adult Otologist-Neurotologist and the incumbent Ansin Foundation Chair in Otolaryngology at Mass Eye and Ear. He is Program Director of the Harvard Neurotology fellowship and Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School. His primary clinical focus is on cochlear implant surgery for infants, children, and adults. As Director of the Wilson Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI) program based at Mass Eye and Ear and Mass General, Dr. Lee and his team works with infants and children and their families as well as adults who are deaf and cannot receive cochlear implants. Specifically, his program cares for children and adults with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2) who are deaf from bilateral vestibular schwannomas (acoustic neuromas) as well as children and adults who are deaf from scarred inner ears or absent or damaged auditory nerves. Dr. Lee has an international referral center for the diagnosis and management of superior canal dehiscence syndrome and offers both minimally invasive endoscopic-assisted middle fossa craniotomy and transmastoid SCD repair options to patients with disabling auditory and/or balance symptoms. Finally, Dr. Lee hosted the first surgical courses on endoscopic ear surgery in the U.S. in 2011 and 2012 and has since developed a center of excellence for minimally invasive transcanal, transmastoid, and transcranial endoscopic ear surgery techniques in children and adults with cholesteatoma and chronic infections. Dr. Lee is board-certified in Neurotology and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.