Prof. Dr. Aytuğ Altundag burun sinüs ve koku bozukluğu tedavileri ile ilgilenmektedir

Qualification

Medical doctor, 2001, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

ENT specialist, 2007, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic

Postgraduate study (Ph.D.), 2009, Medical Faculty in Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Positions held

2nd of April, 2002 to 31st of March 2013, medical doctor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Regional Hospital Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

1st of October, 2005 – till now, lecturer, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Pardubice

1st of April, 2013 – till 31st of March, 2014, medical doctor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague, Prague;  lecturer, Medical Faculty in Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

1st of April, 2014 – till now, head of the department, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Pardubice Hospital, Pardubice, Czech Republic

1st of April, 2013 – till now, lecturer, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Professor Apostolos Karligkiotis is an Attending Physician in the Department of Otolaryngology at San Raffaele Research Hospital and an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy.

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Insubria in Varese in 2008 and completed his residency in Otolaryngology with honors at the University of Sassari in 2016. He has trained both in Italy and abroad at top-tier institutions, including the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Lariboisière Hospital in Paris. In Italy, he trained and worked at the Ospedale di Circolo in Varese, where he served as a staff ENT surgeon for eight years.

To date, he has performed over 2,500 surgical procedures on adult and pediatric patients. His expertise includes minimally invasive endoscopic surgery of the nose, paranasal sinuses, and skull base, as well as salivary gland and thyroid surgery. His surgical experience spans the full spectrum of inflammatory, obstructive, and oncologic diseasesof the head and neck.

He is highly experienced in treating conditions such as rhinosinusitis, nasal polyposis, benign and malignant sinonasal and skull base tumors, CSF leaks, orbital tumors, and lacrimal pathway disorders, using both modern endoscopic minimally invasive techniques and external surgical approaches.

Professor Karligkiotis is the author of over 160 scientific publications, including 75 articles in indexed, peer-reviewed journals, with an H-index of 19. He has also contributed 12 book chapters, primarily in the field of endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery. Since 2019, he has served as Associate Editor for Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery for the prestigious journal Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica (Impact Factor 2.1).

He has participated in more than 260 scientific congresses and training courses, over 60 as an invited speaker, and has served as a tutor in more than 120 cadaver dissection courses focused on endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery.

Rumi Sekine, MD, is an otorhinolaryngologist in Japan. Her clinical and research work focuses on olfactory dysfunction, chronic rhinosinusitis, and sinonasal physiology. She has a particular interest in the mechanisms, evaluation, and treatment of olfactory impairment.

Education April, 2005-2011 Kyorin Medical University 

Work Experience She started junior residency at Jichi Medical University Hospital, Tochigi, Japan in 2011 and worked until 2014. SHe joined Jikei University School of Medicine, Department of Otorhinolaryngology in 2014. Since then, she worked at main and brunch hospital of Jikei Medical University including Jikei Medical University Kashiwa Hospital in Chiba and Jikei University Daisan Hospital in Tokyo. Since 2018, she started to work at Olfactory and Aroma Clinic at Jikei University Hospital. In 2021, she studied in Technical University of Dresden, Smell & Taste Clinic for research on olfaction. Previously, she now belongs to St.Luke International hospital in Tokyo.

Teaching and advising She is a faculty of JIKEI-ASIA ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY COURSE since 2015 and also instructor of Jikei Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Hands on seminar since 2019.

Degree and Professional Memberships She belong to “The Oto-Rhinol-Laryngological Society of Japan”, The Japanese Rhinologic Society of Japan and The Japanese Association for the Study of Taste and Smell. The board Certified Otorhinolaryngologist in Japan since 2017.