MARION COUCH was named the Richard T. Miyamoto Professor and chair of the Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Couch will assume her duties June 1, pending approval by the trustees of Indiana University.
A head and neck surgical oncologist, she is professor and interim chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and surgeon-in-chief of Fletcher Allen Health Care.
She joined the University of Vermont faculty in 2010 as division chief of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and was appointed interim chair and physician leader of surgery in 2011. She also served as interim chief of ophthalmology and associate vice president of finance for the UVM Medical Group.
Couch will succeed Richard Miyamoto, chair and Arilla Spence DeVault Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and medical director of audiology and speech language pathology.
Miyamoto performed Indiana’s first cochlear implant in 1979. In 1995, he and his team at Riley Hospital for Children implanted a device in a 16-month-old boy, the youngest ever to receive a cochlear implant at that time.
