Jiří Skřivan, M.D., PhD. was born in the year 1958. He graduated in the Faculty of General Medicine of the Charles University in Prague in 1984. In the same year he became a resident and later a junior assistant in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery of the 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague. In the years 1987 and 1991 respectively he has gained a specialization degree on otorhinolaryngology of the 1st and 2nd grade. In the year 2001 he successfully defended a dissertation thesis entitled Predictive factors in Cochlear Implant Candidates. In the Department, he held a position of the Department Head Deputy for the research and science. In the year 2014, he has become a head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague.

His pedagogic activities span from the 1st and 2nd Medical Faculties of the Charles University. He teaches medical and postgradual students as well. He is active as a lector on many surgical courses abroad. He is a member of the Czech Board for Otorhinolaryngology.

His interests lay especially in otosurgery, otology, skull base surgery and surgical treatment of hearing disorders, both in children and adults.

He has presented a number of scientific papers, published several monographies and about one hundred of scientific articles.

I am a Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology, Director of the University of Miami Ear Institute, and Director of the ACGME-accredited Neurotology Fellowship Program. I hold two Board Certifications in Otolaryngology and Neurotology. Specific to this course, I am highly experienced in clinical and translational research in hearing loss and clinical research in genetic hearing loss. I am a cholesteatoma surgeon, have taught countless of surgical training courses both nationally and Internationally, and have carried out clinical studies on cholesteatoma outcomes in patients, both pediatric and adult subjects, from diverse backgrounds.