<p>Bahar Colpan, MD,</p> <p>KTO Karatay University Medova Hospital, Konya,Turkey</p> <p>Bahar Colpan received her medical degree from Gazi University Faculty of</p> <p>Medicine in 1999. She subsequently completed her residency in</p> <p>Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Selcuk University Meram</p> <p>Faculty of Medicine.</p> <p>She joined the faculty of Selcuk University Meram Faculty of Medicine as an</p> <p>Assistant Professor in 2004, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012,</p> <p>and attained the rank of Professor in 2017. To further advance her academic</p> <p>and clinical expertise, she completed a one-year Research Fellowship at the</p> <p>House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles, California, USA, one of the world’s leading</p> <p>centers for otology and neurotology.</p> <p>Until 2023, Professor Colpan served as a faculty member at Selcuk University</p> <p>Meram Faculty of Medicine. She currently works at KTO Karatay University</p> <p>Medova Hospital, where she continues her clinical practice, research, and</p> <p>academic activities in the field of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck</p> <p>Surgery.</p> <p>Professor Colpan has extensive experience in otology, hearing</p> <p>disorders,cochlear implant,neurotology,and ear surgery, endoscopic ear</p> <p>surgery,rhinology, pediatric ENT, vestibuler disorders. She has authored</p> <p>numerous national and international scientific publications and has actively</p> <p>participated in many national and international congresses as a speaker and</p> <p>researcher.</p> <p>She is married and has two children.</p>

<p>Prof. Gaziz Tufatulin, PhD, head of St Petersburg Center of Pediatric Audiology, prof. at North-Western State Medical University named after I.I.Mechnikov and Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, scientific advisor at St Petersburg Scientific ENT Research Institute, vice president of the Russian National Medical Association of Audiology.</p> <p>Scientific research of Prof.G.Tufatulin focuses on the priority issues of pediatric audiology, electrophysiology, amplification, organization of audiology services, and rehabilitation. He is the author of the method of hydrovibration stimulation for early rehabilitation of children with severe hearing impairments. Under the guidance of Prof.Tufatulin, a protocol for audiological examination of infants in the Russian Federation has been published. He implemented the audit program of the first stage of audiological screening in St Petersburg, optimized approaches to pediatric amplification, electrophysiological diagnostics of hearing. Gaziz Tufatulin us initiator and head of a scientific project on the rehabilitation of balance and coordination disorders in children with hearing impairments. Since 2019, he has been a member of the EFAS (European Federation of Audiological Societies) working group on audiological screening of schoolchildren. Organizer of the annual educational course "Conversations about Hearing in the White Nights"</p>