Dr. Arriaga earned his medical degree from Brown University and went on to complete an internship at Ochsner Health Foundation in New Orleans. He is Board Certified in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Neurotology. Prior to returning home to Louisiana in 2005, Dr. Arriaga served as Lt. Colonel and Director of Neurotology for the U.S. Air Force at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, and Founder of the Allegheny General Hearing and Balance Center in Pittsburgh. Dr. Arriaga serves as Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery as well as Director of Otology and Neurotology at the LSU Health Sciences Center Department of Otolaryngology.