Rate My Professor Robert Eisenberg

Conjoint Associate Professor Robert Eisenberg serves as Discipline Lead for Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. Holding qualifications of MBBS and FRACS (ORL-HNS), he commenced practice in Newcastle in 2002, founding the head and neck microvascular reconstruction program and the neuro-otology and skull base surgery program. As previous Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Hunter New England Health, he expanded services across the region, establishing Australia's largest regional ENT-Head and Neck centre. He established the microvascular Head and Neck reconstructive unit, decentralised surgical services to the Hunter-New England region, and developed the Newcastle Head and Neck multidisciplinary team and clinic. In 2011, he instigated the HANCS Club, the first social club empowering head and neck cancer patients post-treatment. He chairs the Hunter New England Skull Base Tumour Board and the Subcommittee for Indigenous Outreach of the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons.

A/Prof Eisenberg possesses extensive experience in hearing and skull base surgery, thyroid and parathyroid surgery, rhinoplasty, and head and neck cancer reconstruction. As Conjoint Associate Professor and discipline lead, he supervises the Temporal Bone Laboratory, holds the NSW Anatomy license for it, and collaborates closely with academics researching hearing loss, dementia, balance disorders, and implants. He serves as Head and Neck and Skull Base Reconstructive Fellowship Supervisor and founding co-director of Hunter ENT, contributing to projects including the Muku outreach program, Newcastle Cochlear implant program, and KONARA health facility. A teacher and mentor to generations of ENT-Head and Neck surgeons and Newcastle medical students, he has extensive publications in clinical and translational research around ENT and head and neck surgery, including 'Anatomical and functional studies of vestibular neuroepithelia from patients with Ménière’s disease' (2024), 'Climate and environmental crisis: effects on ear and hearing health in Australia and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' (2025), 'Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Incidence of Level VI Lymph Node Metastases in Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma' (2023), and 'Horner’s syndrome post tonsillectomy—a systematic review'.