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.

Professor and Senior Consultant at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery (ORL-HNS), Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Dr. Goh is also the Head of Paediatric ORL-HNS Unit at the UKM Specialist Children's Hospital (HPKK). She is an active member with leadership roles in several multidisciplinary teams managing children with hearing loss and airway pathologies, as Head of  UKM Cochlear Implant, UKM Cleft Palate and Vascular Anomalies team. Her research and publications in ENT and are extensive, besides providing expert consultative services to fellow professionals and the community at large. DR. Goh is an internationally recognized speaker in the field of cochlear implant and paediatric airway and supervisor for paediatric ORL subspecialty training in Malaysia. She is the Past President of Malaysian Society of Otorhinolaryngologists Head & Neck Surgeon for 2016/2017 and currently as President Elect of the College of Otorhinolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgeons, Academy of Medicine Malaysia. She is board member of Asia Pacific Paediatric ORL Society, Cochlear Implant Global Access Network Steering Committee and Asean Academy of Neurotology and Audiology (AANOA).