Biography
Dr. Merati's professional pathway has taken him from his native Pacific Northwest through California, Tennessee, Kansas, Missouri and, finally, Wisconsin, before returning home to Seattle in 2007 to take his dream job running the laryngology program at the University of Washington. He may be the only surgeon in the department who actually had his tonsils removed at UW Medical Center as a child!
Dr. Merati is first and last a clinician and has earned a reputation of clinical accessibility for patients and colleagues in the region. His three favorite people in the world are his wife Jenny, his little dude Solomon (born 2009) and their new arrival Rose (born 2013). He owes his professional career success to the foundations laid down in medical school with Charlie Cummings and Ernie Weymuller (who serves to this day as his advisor at UW), Jeff Harris at UCSD, his dear mentor, Robert Ossoff, and his beloved guardian angel and advocate Bob Toohill from Milwaukee. How lucky he has been!