Prof. Marco Caversaccio is chairman of the Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery at the University Hospital in Bern (Switzerland) since 2009. Since 14 years he is additionally Vice-Director of the ARTORG Research Center for Biomedical Engineering Research. Dr. Caversaccio is a wellknown technology expert for the development and implementation of novel surgical techniques and systems in the area of Otology, Rhinology and Skull Base. He has conducted First in Man studies like the Robotic Cochlea implantation. He is member of the Swiss, German, French societies for ENT, of the American Academy of ORL and of the Collegium ORL Amicitiae Sacrum

Director of the Sunnybrook Cochlear Implantation Program & Inner Ear Regeneration Initiative;

Provincial Coordinator, Ontario Cochlear Implant Program (OCIP)

Professor, University of Toronto

Fellowship Director, Otology-Skull Base Surgery

Hospital Practitioner, ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Otology, Children's Audiology

Head of the Ped. Audiophonology and Cochlear Implant Unit - Necker-Enfants malades Hospital, Paris

Member of the UMRS 1120 Unit, and of the Center for Rare Diseases-Genetic Deafness

Career

1999--: MD PHD, ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Armand-Trousseau Children's Hospital, and at Necker-Enfants malades Paris, since 2012

2003---: Head of the Pediatric Audiophonology and Cochlear Implant Department, in Armand-Trousseau Children's Hospital and in Necker Enfants malades

2020---: Head of the Audiology Research Platform at Necker

2022-2024: President of the French Association of Pediatric ENT (AFOP)

2024---: Board member - French Society of Audiology 

Academic activities

Head of the Pediatric Audiophonology and Cochlear Implant Uni

Head of the Audiology Research Platform at Necker

 Otologic surgery, cochlear implant surgery

Major grants

·       2008-2009: National PHRC co-investigator: study on the cost of cochlear implants in France.

·       2015-2019: Principal Investigator for Bi-center clinical study: CNRS APHP – Analysis of the development of temporal areas by fNIRS

·       2017-2019: ISLODA Co-Investigator: Bi-center study (PHRIC) – Impact of the use of LENA in the rehabilitation of the implanted child

·       2017-2021: WP1 RHU- Light4Death (Research on Deaf Patients with Usher Syndrome)

·       2019-2025: RHU4 Project Manager - Audinnove

·       2025-2027: Project leader and principal investigator PHRC Asymic ped

·       2024- : Scientific Lead and Principal Investigator -  Audiogene- Gene Therapy Study

Conference organization

OTOFORUM 2027, Paris, France

Vedat Topsakal is an otologist. He is born in the Netherlands but is Turkish.

Since being recognized as an Otorhinolaryngologist he has been focussed only on otology working in the Netherlands and Belgium in different centers. Robotic Cochlear Implant surgery has become a reserach focus over the last years.

Education

l  Graduated from Shanghai Second Medical University in 2005 with a MD degree of Otorhinolaryngology

l  Obtained Ph.D of Neuroscience from Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier 1 in 2012

l  Accomplished postdoctoral research at laboratory of minimally invasive robotic surgery for hearing rehabilitation, UMR-S1159 of INSERM / University of Paris 6 in 2017.

Academic titles

l  East-Asia regional secretary and research committee member of YO-IFOS

l  Membre of Young otorhinolaryngologists group, Chinese Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

l  Member of Otology Group, Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery  Society, Shanghai Medical Association

Research interests:

l  Experimental and clinical study of cochlear implantation

l  R & D of otological robot

l  Clinical study of functional or endoscopic otological surgery