Prof. Javier Gavilán is Professor and Chairman at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of La Paz University Hospital in Madrid, Spain, since 1997. His Department has been repeatedly elected as the best department of ENT in Spain during the last years.

He has written more than 350 papers in scientific journals, 92 book chapters and published 8 books as author or co-author. He has also presented more than 600 papers in scientific meetings.

Prof. Gavilán has been awarded 56 different awards and grants, including the Honor Award of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-HNS, and several awards in International Meetings.

He is a member of more than 25 different scientific societies. In some of them as Honorary Member, Founding Member or Member of the Board of Directors.

His main topics of interest are head and neck surgery, skull base surgery and otology including hearing implants, where he has pioneered the clinical use of transcutaneous bone conduction implants, active middle ear implants and brainstem implants. He is frequent lecturer for these topics on numerous international meetings around the world.