PROF. GEORGE A. TAVARTKILADZE, M.D., PHD.

Director and founder of the National Research Centre for Audiology and Hearing Rehabilitation till 2022,

Head of the Department of Clinical Audiology of the Russian Medical Academy for Continuing Professional Education, Moscow, Russia.

Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Georgia, Honorary member of the International Society of AudiologyHonorary Member of the Italian and German Societies of Otorhinolaryngologists, Honorary Doctor of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Association of Otiatricians, Otoneurosurgeons and Otoneurologists.

 MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS: experimental and clinical audiology, electrophysiology of hearing, cochlear micromechanics, early detection, diagnosis and rehabilitation of hearing disorders, cochlear implantation (more than 500 publications).

 MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES:

President of the International Academy of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery; Past Secretary General of the International Society of Audiology; Member of the Expert Advisory Panel, World Health Organization; Member of the Lancet Commission on Hearing; President of the Russian Society of Audiology, Representative of Russian Federation in European Federation of Audiological Societies, Council member of the IERASG

 MEMBERSHIP IN THE EDITORIAL BOARDS

Acta Otolaryngology; International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology; Journal of Hearing Science; Audiology Research; Journal of International Advanced Otology; European Arch Otolaryngology; Vestnik Otorhinolaringol (Rus); Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Folia Otorhingologiae et Patologiae Respiratoria; Hearing, Balance & Communication; Italian J of Audiology and Phoniatrics.

Professor Sergey A. Karpishchenko, MD, PhD

Vice –Rector for Foreign Affairs of First Pavlov State Medical University, Saint    Petersburg, Russia

 Professor and Chairman of ENT Department of First Pavlov State Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

The scientific interests: Head and Neck Surgery

Author and coauthor of 55 books, manuals and more than 550 scientific papers  

Organized and headed 35 International Congresses and Conferences.

Elected President of Rhinology World Congress IRS-ISIAN, 2022

Member of International Academy of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Member of Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde Korf-und Hals –Chirurgie,

Corresponding Member of Royal Belgian ENT Society

Member of Executive Committee of Rhinologic Society of Russia.

Chief  Editor of the Journal “Folia Otorhinolaryngologiae et Pathologiae Respiratoriae” (Russia)

Member of Editorial Board of “B-ENT” (Belgium)

Member of Editorial Board of “International ORL Bulletin” (Bulgaria)

 Member of the International Editorial Board of Acta Oto-Larygologica (Sweden)     

Degree in Medicine &Surgery (1979), with Specialization in ORL &Cervico-Facial Pathology (1982) and Audiology (1985)

Former Head of the Surgical Specialities Department and ORL Unit - University Hospital, Udine (Italy) (1997-2020). Previously on duty in the same Unit from 1981 to 1997

Medical Officer (1st Captain) (res.) in the Italian Army Medical Service and former Consultant in Otorhinolaryngology at Udine Military Hospital/Medico-Legal Military Center (1989-2000)

Contract Professor in ORL at University of Udine Medical School (2016-2021) and in ORL/Phoniatrics at University of Trieste - Faculty of Logopedy (2018-2020)

President Emeritus of the Italian College of Surgeons (CIC)

Past President of the Italian Society of ORL & Cervico-Facial Surgery (SIOeChC-F)

Past President of the Italian Society of Rhinology (SIR)

Past President of the Italian Association of Hospital Otorhinolaryngologists (AOOI)

General Secretary of the International Academy ORL - Head &Neck Surgery (IAO-HNS)

Former Editor-in-chief of “Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica”, Official Journal of the Italian ORL Society

Delegate of the Italian ORL Society at the Italian T.N.M. Committee (OMS/UICC)

Member of the International Scientific Board of Societas Otorhinolaryngologica Latina since 2012

Main clinical and research interests are in head and neck cancer, thyroid and parathyroid pathology,         otomicrosurgery, clinical and surgical rhinology, functional pathology of the upper aerodigestive ways,      Medical Management and Health Technology Assessment