Terry D. Fife, MD

The Guest Editor of this issue of Seminars in Neurology is Terry D. Fife, MD.

Dr. Fife is the Director of Balance Disorders and Neuro-Otology, and Professor of Neurology and Interim Chairman of the Department of Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also Acting Executive Chairman of Neurology and Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Neurology, Creighton University School of Medicine.

Dr. Fife graduated with honors from the University of Arizona where he majored in chemistry. He was elected into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. He was on the 1980 NCAA championship baseball team; in 1987, he was inducted into the University of Arizona Sports Hall of Fame. He earned his MD from the Texas A&M University College of Medicine (College Station, TX). He then did a residency in internal medicine at the University of California, Davis, Sacramento, followed by a neurology residency at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Fife is a Diplomate of both the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Fife did a fellowship in vestibular neurophysiology & neuro-otology in the Departments of Neurology and Otolaryngology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

Dr. Fife has dedicated his life's work to improving our care of patients with vertigo and other disorders of imbalance. He has published multiple scholarly works and is a very popular lecturer at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting. He is an Honorary Commander of the 56th Medical Group, Luke Air Force Base outside of Phoenix. Dr. Fife has been recognized innumerable times as one of America's Top Doctors; his tireless and dedicated work has been honored with a “Compassionate Doctor” recognition. I am so very proud that he is a Hoosier, born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His patients rave about his knowledge and about the amount of time he takes to carefully listen to them. In the words of his patients and all of us who have worked with him, “He is such a kind man.”

In this issue of Seminars in Neurology, Dr. Fife has assembled an international group of experts to share their knowledge with us of the clinical features, etiologies, and management of these disorders. Neuro-otologists are precious, rare gems in medicine. Our thank you to each and every one of you!