CURRICULUM VITAE FOR


MICHAEL RONTAL, MD


Revised April 27, 2004

Education
 
High School education:
1955-1958
Thomas M. Cooley High School,
Detroit, Michigan
Undergraduate education:
1958-1961
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michigan
Medical school:
1961-1965
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michigan
Internship:
1965-1966
Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Detroit,
Michigan – rotating
Residency:
 

General surgery

1966-1967
Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Detroit,
Michigan

Otolaryngology

1967-1970
Washington University, Barnes
Hospital

1969-1970
Chief resident, Otolaryngology,
Washington University, Barnes
Hospital
Faculty appointments    
 
1974-1983
Clinical Instructor, Department of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck
Surgery
 
1983-1989
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
 
1989-1998
Clinical Associate Professor,
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
 
1998 - Present
Clinical Professor, Department of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck
Surgery, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
     
Scientific Activities

Member, Committee on Voice
Physiology
, American Academy of
Otolaryngology, 1973-1975
Member, Committee on Voice and
Swallowing
, American Academy of
Otolaryngology, 1996-1998

 

Licensure:

Michigan, 1966

 

Board Certification:

1971-Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

 

Military

U.S. Army, William Beaumont
General Hospital, El Paso, Texas,
Chief of Otolaryngology service,
1970-1972

 

Honors and awards

Minnesota Medicine Honor Award,
First Place 1978 for excellence in
Medical writing and originality

 

Professional societies

Diplomate, American Board of Otolaryngology,
Head and Neck Surgery, 1971
Fellow, American College of Surgeons
Member, Oakland County Medical Society
Member, Michigan State Medical Society
Member, American Medical Association
Member, American Society of Otology, Rhinology, and
Laryngology (a.k.a. The Triologic Society)
Member, American Laryngologic Association
Member, American Facial Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery Society
Member, American Society of Head and Neck Surgery
Member, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery
Member, American Broncho-Esophagologic Society
Member, Michigan Otolaryngology Society
Secretary/ Treasure, Michigan Otolaryngologic Society, 2002-2003
President elect, Michigan Otolaryngologic Society, 2003-2004

 

Thesis Triologic Society thesis: Correlative Anatomy of the Orbit
Accepted 1979
Bibliography
Continuing medical education course faculty
  Course director, Phonosurgery, University of Michigan, May, 1990

Course director, Phonosurgery, University of Michigan, June, 1991

Course director, Phonosurgery, University of Michigan, June, 1993

Invited faculty, Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, Shadyside Hospital,
University of Pittsburgh, October, 1990, Mark May, MD, director

Invited faculty, International Symposium on Endoscopic Sinus
Surgery, New York University Medical School, October, 1994,
Joseph Jacobs, MD, director

Invited faculty, Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Course, University of
Michigan, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, Charles Koopman, MD,
Director

Invited faculty, Pacific Voice Conference, University of California,
San Francisco Medical School, October, 1995,
Kristophe Izdebski, PhD., director

Invited faculty, Pacific Voice Conference, University of California,
San Francisco Medical School, October, 1997,
Kristophe Izdebski, PhD., director

Invited faculty, Pacific Voice Conference, University of California,
San Francisco Medical School, November, 1998
Kristophe Izdebski, PhD., director

   
Books:
  Anatomy of the Paranasal Sinuses, Jack Anon, MD, Michael Rontal, MD, S. James Zinreich, MD, Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, 1996
Book Chapters:  
  Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Laser Treatment of Tracheal and Endobronchial Lesions in Dent, T., Strodel, W., Turcotte, J., eds. Surgical Endoscopy, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Year Book Publishers, 1985, p392-406

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., The Immobile Cord, in Cummings, C.,
Fredrickson, J., Krause, C., eds. Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, CV Mosby Publishers, St. Louis, 1986, vol. III, p. 2055-2071

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Klass, A., Palliation of Esophageal Carcinoma in Weisberg, E., ed. Lasers in Head and Neck Surgery, Igaku-Shoin Medical Publishers, New York, 1990, p. 237-253

Anon, J., Rontal, M., S.J. Zinreich, Embryology and Anatomy of the Paranasal Sinuses, in Bluestone, C., Stool, S., Kenna, M., Pediatric Otolaryngology, 3rd ed., Saunders, Philadelphia, 1996, p. 719-734

May, M., Levine, H., Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Complex anatomy of the Lateral nasal wall: simplified for the endoscopic surgeon, eds. May, M., Levine, H., Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, Thieme Medical Publishers,
New York, 1993

Anon, J., Rontal, M., Bernstein, J., Prophylactic Antibiotics in
Paranasal Sinus Surgery in Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial
Therapy of the Ears, Nose and Throat, Johnson, J., Yu, V.L.,
ed. Saunders, 1996

Anon, J., Rontal, M., S.J. Zinreich, Embryology and Anatomy of the Paranasal Sinuses, in Bluestone, C., Stool, S., Kenna, M., Pediatric Otolaryngology, 4th ed., Saunders, Philadelphia, 2002

Articles:  
  Ogura, J., Biller, H., Rontal, M., Ehrlich, C., Cervical osteomyelitis complicating pharyngeal resection, Arch Otol, 94. 165-168, 1971

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Maxillo-facial injuries in football players,
Journal Sports Medicine, 11, 241-245, 1971

Rontal, M., Surgical treatment of malignant exophthalmos, Bulletin Sinai Hospital of Detroit, 21, 103-108, 1973

Wilson, K., Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Facial injuries in football players, Trans Am Acad. Otol, 77, 434-437, 1973

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Rolnick, M., Use of voice spectrography in clinical evaluation of vocal cord injection, Laryngoscope, 85, 47-56, 1975

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Rolnick, M., Objective evaluation of vocal pathology using voice spectrography, Ann Otol, 84, 662-672, 1975

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Morse, G., Brown, E., The use of vocal cord Injection in the treatment of acute and chronic aspiration,
Laryngoscope, 86, 625-634, 1976

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Lesions of the vagus nerve: diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, Laryngoscope, 87, 72-86, 1977

Rontal, M., Durtiz,G., Proboscis lateralis: case report and embryologic analysis, Laryngoscope, 87, 996-1006, 1977

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Wilson, K., Cram, B., Facial injuries in hockey players, Laryngoscope, 87, 884-894, 1977

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Wilson, K., Cram, B., Facial injuries in hockey
players, Minnesota Medicine, 13-19, 1977

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Leuchter, W., Rolnick, M., Voice spectrography in the evaluation of myasthenia gravis of the larynx, Ann Otol, 87, 722-726, 1978

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Guilford, T., Surgical anatomy of the orbit, Ann Otol, 88, 382-386, 1979

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Jacob, H.J., Rolnick, M., Vocal cord
dysfunction: an industrial health hazard, Ann Otol, 88, 818-821, 1979

Rontal, M., Rontal E., Wenokur, M., Jet insufflation anesthesia for endolaryngeal surgery, Laryngoscope, 90, 1162-1168, 1980

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Lesions of the hypoglossal nerve,
Laryngoscope, 87, 72-86, 1982

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Treatment of recurrent carcinoma of the base of the skull with carbon dioxide laser, Laryngoscope 93, 1261-1265,1983

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Jacob, H.J., Rolnick, M., Quantitative and objective evaluation of vocal cord function, Ann Otol, 92,
421-423,1983

Rontal, M., Fuller, T., Rontal, E., Jacob, H.J., Flexible nontoxic
fiberoptic delivery system for the carbon dioxide laser, Trans Am Lar. Soc., 105, 119-122, 1984

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Jacob, H.J., Use of carbon dioxide laser in otolaryngology, Michigan Medicine, 83, 281, 1984

Rontal, M., Fuller, T., Rontal, E., Jacob, H.J., Flexible nontoxic
fiberoptic delivery system for the carbon dioxide laser, Ann Otol. 94, 357-360, 1985

Rontal, M., Rontal, J., Rontal, E., A device for instruction and practice of endoscopic intra-laryngeal and tracheal procedures, Laryngoscope, 95, 1547-1548, 1985

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Wenokur, M., Jef insufflation anesthesia for endolaryngeal laser surgery, a review of 318 consecutive cases, Laryngoscope, 95, 990-992, 1985

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Jacob, H.J., Klass, A., Laser palliation for
esophageal carcinoma, Laryngoscope, 96, 846-850, 1986

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Wenokur, M., Jacob, H.J., Anesthetic
management for tracheobronchial laser surgery, Ann Otol, 86, 1986

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., The use of sialodochoplasty in the treatment of benign inflammatory submandibular gland disease, Laryngoscope, 97, 1417-1421, 1987

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Sullivan, M., Idiopathic subglottic stenosis in adults, Trans Am BronchoEsophagologic Assoc, 131-134, 1987

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Endoscopic laryngeal surgery for bilateral
midline vocal cord obstruction, Ann Otol, 99, 605-610, 1990

Truong, D., Rontal, M., Rolnick, M., Aronson, A., Mitsura, K., Double blind controlled study of the effects of botulinum toxin in laryngeal adductor dysphonia, Neurology, 40 (supp. I), 446, 1990

Truong, D., Hermanowicz, N., Rontal, M., Botulinum toxin in the
treatment of tardive dyskinesia syndrome,
J Clin Psychopharmacology 10, 438-439, 1990

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Use of whole mounted sections of the paranasal sinuses to study complication of endoscopic sinus surgery, Laryngoscope, 101, 360-366, 1991

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Vocal Cord Injection Techniques, in Koufman, J., Isaacson, G., ed. Otolaryngology Clinics of North America, Vol. 24, 1991, p 1141-1150

Truong, D., Rontal, M., Rolnick, M., Aronson, A., Mitsura, K., Double blind controlled study of botulinum toxin in adductor spasmodic dysphonia, Laryngoscope, 101, 630-634, 1991

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Rolnick, M., Merson, R., Silverman, B.,
Truong, D., A method for the treatment of abductor spasmodic
dysphonia with botulinum toxin injection: preliminary report
Laryngoscope, 101, 911-914, 1991

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Silverman, B., Kileny, P., The clinical
differentiation between vocal cord paralysis and vocal cord fixation using electromyography, Laryngoscope, 103, 133-137, 1993

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., Use of laryngeal muscular tenotomy for
midline vocal cord fixation, Ann Otol, 103, 583-589, 1994

Anon, J., Rontal, M., Zinreich, S.J., Computer assisted endoscopic sinus surgery-current experience and future developments, Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, 6, 163-170, 1995

Rosenberg, M., Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Lebenbom-Mansour, M.,
Arytenoid cartilage dislocation caused by a laryngeal mask airway
treated with chemical splinting, Anesthesia Analgesia, 83, 1335-1336, 1996

Rontal, M., Rontal, E., An anatomic approach to local anesthesia for Surgery of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses, in Gross, C, ed.
Otolaryngology Clinics of North America, 30, 403-420, 1997

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Laryngeal Rebalancing for the treatment of arytenoid dislocation, J Voice, 12, 383-388, 1998

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Wald, J., Botulinum toxin injection in the treatment of vocal fold paralysis associated with multiple sclerosis: a case report. J Voice. 1999 Jun;13(2):274-9.

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Botulinum toxin as an adjunct for the treatment of acute anteromedial arytenoid dislocation. Laryngoscope. 1999 Jan;109(1):164-6.

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Laryngeal rebalancing for the treatment of arytenoid dislocation., J Voice. 1998 Sep;12(3):383-8.
Rontal, M., Bernstein, JM., Rontal, E., Anon, J., Bacteriologic findings from the nose, ethmoid, and bloodstream during endoscopic surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis: implications for antibiotic therapy. Am J Rhinol. 1999 Mar-Apr;13(2):91-6.

Rontal, E., Rontal, M., Permanent medialization of the paralyzed vocal fold utilizing botulinum toxin and Gelfoam. J Voice. 2003 Sep;17(3):434-41