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ERIC M. KRAUS, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Otology/Neurotology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC, United States



Eric M. Kraus, MD, MS, FACS, is an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Division Otology/Neurotology, Winston-Salem, NC. For 32 years, he was the Founder/President of The Ear Center of Greensboro. Dr. Kraus graduated from Swarthmore College 1973, BA in Biology with Distinction and from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Cum Laude 1977. He completed two years of General Surgery residency at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. While at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, 1979-83, Dr. Kraus completed his OTO-HNS residency, MS degree, and received an American Cancer Society Head & Neck Cancer Fellowship Scholarship. He became Board Certified in Otolaryngology in 1983. Dr. Kraus practiced otologic surgery at The Ear Center of Greensboro, PA, 1989-2021, before joining the faculty at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Kraus is an inventor and has been granted three U.S. utility patents. He has invented the Kraus Ossicle-Cup Middle Ear Prosthesis, the Kraus Microcut™ Forceps, the Kraus Bayonet Micro-Knife Handle, and the Kraus K-Helix Crown & Piston prostheses used for ossicular chain reconstruction. From 1987-1990, Dr. Kraus was one of 15 co-investigators for Cochlear Corporation’s FDA Pediatric Cochlear Implant Trial. From 2004-2010, he was a co-investigator and surgical consultant for the Envoy Esteem™ Totally Implantable Hearing System US FDA Pivotal Trial. Trial results led to FDA clearance of the Esteem device in March 2010, and three publications. He was the Physician Member of the NC Board of Examiners for SLP/AUD, 2011-2016. Since 2018, Dr. Kraus has served as a non-paid scientific consultant to Otomagnetics, LLC, a start-up company that is developing magnetic nano-particles for targeted drug delivery. He initiated the robotic-assisted cochlear implant program at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in December 2023.

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