Gülin Gökçen Kesici
Gülin Gökçen Kesici, MD, PhD (Audiology) is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Ankara Medipol University, Türkiye. She graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine and completed her residency in Otorhinolaryngology at Ankara University. Complementing her training as an otolaryngologist, she subsequently obtained both MSc and PhD degrees in Audiology.
Her main clinical and academic interests include neurotology, vestibular disorders, advanced audio-vestibular diagnostics, cochlear implantation, otologic surgery, skull base surgery, and pediatric otolaryngology. Her combined expertise in otolaryngology and audiology provides an integrated clinical perspective on the diagnosis and management of hearing and balance disorders.
Her clinical practice encompasses cochlear implantation and the management of complex otologic and vestibular disorders. She is also actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education in otolaryngology and audiology.
Sessions
Vestibular assessment: new tools and developments to assess patients with balance problems
Functional audio-vestibular testing matters because it transforms symptoms into objective, clinically meaningful information. Dizziness, imbalance, hearing complaints, and vestibular disorders are often complex, and no single test can provide the whole picture. A structured combination of audiological and vestibular assessments helps us localize dysfunction, quantify impairment, guide treatment, and monitor outcomes.
Augmented reality in vestibular rehabilitation, 10 years experience
Vestibular Testing in the Pediatric Population: New Indications and Approaches
Vertigo is often a challenge for the generalist ENT practitioner. Even with computer tools, doubt can persist between central and peripheral origin and about the need to carry out a maneuver for VPPB. The HINTS protocol, applied in the emergency rooms, has been the reference for several years and is more sensitive than an MRI within the first 48 hours. Many vertiginous patients are mishandled, making them worse. The HINTS protocol should be applied as well in general ENT. After a quick introduction on nystagmus, will follow a step by step videos presentation of the HINTS protocol.
Description, outcome objectives and background:
positional vestibular migraine (PVM) is an under-recognized variant of vestibular migraine in which symptoms are provoked primarily by head position changes, often mimicking benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Clinicians may misattribute these episodes to canalolithiasis, leading to ineffective repositioning maneuvers and delayed migraine treatment.This lecture will present diagnostic criteria, video illustrations, and recent insights into pathophysiology and neuroimaging in PVM. It will also discuss differential diagnosis from central and peripheral causes of positional vertigo, emphasizing when to suspect PVM in challenging cases.
outcome objective
to define clinical features distinguishing PVM from typical BPPV
to illustrate diagnostic challenges and potential overlaps
Use of galvanic vestibular stimulation in the diagnosis and rehabilitation of balance disorders
Vestibular migraine: clinical challenges and opportunities for multidisciplinarity -