Rande Lazar


Rande H. Lazar is an American otolaryngologist with a primary focus in pediatrics.

Education and career

Lazar received his B.A. in 1973 from Brooklyn College and his M.D. in 1978 from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara. He was a resident at the Department of General Surgery, North Shore University Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he became Chief Resident in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Disorders. He was licensed in 1985 by the State of Tennessee and obtained certification in 1984 from the American Board of Otolaryngology for Head and Neck Surgery and in 2005 from the American Board of Disability Analysts.
Lazar was Director of the Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship Training Program for ENT Memphis at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center.
Lazar established a yearly grant for gathering socio-economic data related to otolaryngology.
Lazar was arrested in 2025 for allegedly stealing from TennCare.

Research

He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers. According to Scopus, the 5 most highly cited are:
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    Honors and awards

  1. Award of Honor, The Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, September, 1991
  2. Physician Recognition Award, American Medical Association
  3. Rande H. Lazar, M.D. Cleveland Clinic Lectureship