Benjamin Wei is a visiting Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist Surgeon from Melbourne with a subspecialty interest in ear related conditions, including cochlear and Baha implants.  It gives him great pleasure to provide this service to the community of Ballarat and regional areas saving patients additional trips to Melbourne for assessments and consultation. Benjamin Wei is passionate in providing the best individual care to his patients, and he also strives to provide the best surgical care.  He sees both adults and children with ear, nose and throat conditions.

Benjamin Wei’s years of training and clinical experience allow him to constantly utilise his advance surgical skills and employ current evidence based medicine to personalise optimal treatment for his patients.

In addition to visiting Ballarat on a weekly basis, he is also based at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Melbourne and has an academic translational surgical research position at the University of Melbourne and the Bionics Institute.

Benjamin Wei first completed his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Melbourne.  He finished ear, nose and throat surgical training in Victoria and was awarded a fellowship in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.  He further achieved advanced surgical techniques in lateral skull-based surgery, otological surgery, including complex advanced ear surgery and cochlear implantation surgery at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the United States of America.

Benjamin Wei chose to become an ear, nose and throat specialist with a further interest in advanced ear surgery, largely due to his father’s experience, and his own personal experience, as a patient with ear, nose and throat problems.

Benjamin Wei’s father suffered from chronic ear problems, with recurrent ear infections with a tympanic membrane perforation when he was a child.  He saw how his surgery transformed his life and this inspired him in the pursuit of further clinical training in advance ear surgery.  Furthermore, when Benjamin Wei was a teenager, he suffered from recurrent tonsillitis. This impacted on his general well being and schoolwork.  After completing his high school certificate in Brisbane, an ENT surgeon removed his tonsils and this transformed his health, meaning he never got tonsillitis again and he was able to complete his medical and surgical training without getting sick. Benjamin Wei is grateful for this.

Benjamin’s passion for advancing medical technology, to facilitate optimal care for his patients led him to complete a PhD at the Bionics Institute during his fellowship training.  He was mentored by Professor Graeme Clark, who is a pioneer of the multi-channel cochlear implant.

Benjamin’s research on pneumococcal meningitis post cochlear implantation, risk assessment and prevention strategies, earned him multiple awards.  These include the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgical Research Prize and the 2008 Victorian Premier’s award for Health and Medical Research. Benjamin Wei was very grateful to be the first, and only, Australian Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon to win these prestigious local and international awards and have many of his research papers published in National and International journals. Benjamin was also given the opportunity to be an invited guest lecturer at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, New York, Stanford and Iowa Universities in the United States of America.

Benjamin  is committed to provide the best care to his patients using the skills and the clinical experience he has acquired over the years and continue to develop.

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