Patrizia Mancini MD, PhD, is an associate Professor at Department of Sense Organs University Sapienza of Rome. She is an ENT and a Clinical Audiological specialist. She is the Director of a Master Program on Cochlear Implant Fitting, Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Program in "Clinical-Experimental Neuroscience and Psychiatry", and a Member of the European Commission Expert panels on medical devices for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), for implantable devices for Sense Organs.  Her main fields of interest and reseach are otology, auditory implant and facial paralysis.