Professor Apostolos Karligkiotis is an Attending Physician in the Department of Otolaryngology at San Raffaele Research Hospital and an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy.

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Insubria in Varese in 2008 and completed his residency in Otolaryngology with honors at the University of Sassari in 2016. He has trained both in Italy and abroad at top-tier institutions, including the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Lariboisière Hospital in Paris. In Italy, he trained and worked at the Ospedale di Circolo in Varese, where he served as a staff ENT surgeon for eight years.

To date, he has performed over 2,500 surgical procedures on adult and pediatric patients. His expertise includes minimally invasive endoscopic surgery of the nose, paranasal sinuses, and skull base, as well as salivary gland and thyroid surgery. His surgical experience spans the full spectrum of inflammatory, obstructive, and oncologic diseasesof the head and neck.

He is highly experienced in treating conditions such as rhinosinusitis, nasal polyposis, benign and malignant sinonasal and skull base tumors, CSF leaks, orbital tumors, and lacrimal pathway disorders, using both modern endoscopic minimally invasive techniques and external surgical approaches.

Professor Karligkiotis is the author of over 160 scientific publications, including 75 articles in indexed, peer-reviewed journals, with an H-index of 19. He has also contributed 12 book chapters, primarily in the field of endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery. Since 2019, he has served as Associate Editor for Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery for the prestigious journal Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica (Impact Factor 2.1).

He has participated in more than 260 scientific congresses and training courses, over 60 as an invited speaker, and has served as a tutor in more than 120 cadaver dissection courses focused on endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery.