09-12, 14:30–15:00 (Europe/Istanbul), Young IFOS 1
Dr. Eloy is Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He serves as Director of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery, Director of Otolaryngology Research, and Co-Director of the Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery Program. Dr. Eloy has joint appointments as Distinguished Professor of Neurological Surgery and Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is the Co-President of the New Jersey Academy of Otolaryngology/New Jersey Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery, and the Chair and Chief of Service of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center. His clinical/surgical interests and area of expertise include medical and surgical management of refractory rhinosinusitis, endoscopic management of sinonasal neoplasia, cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, ventral skull base lesions, endoscopic revision sinus surgery, and computer – aided sinus surgery.
Throughout his career, Dr. Eloy demonstrated a thirst and proficiency for research, education, and excellence in patient care. His contributions to the fields of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Neurological Surgery include over 520 journal articles, over 490 peer-reviewed articles, 6 books, and 43 book chapters in the subfield of Rhinology, Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgery, over 780 scientific presentations at regional, national, and international otolaryngologic and neurological surgery meetings, as well as over 520 invited lectures and oral presentations. His research topics encompass a wide area of the fields of otolaryngology, neurological surgery, and ophthalmology, and include endoscopic and open sinus surgery, minimally invasive endoscopic skull base surgery, and malpractice in otolaryngology. Dr. Eloy has started a successful fellowship program in Neurorhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery ten years ago.
Dr. Eloy is a pioneer and undisputable thought leader in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and has had a tremendous and singular impact in shaping scholarly activity and understanding of Otolaryngology over the last 15 years by championing the use of large clinical databases such as SEER, NSQIP, NEISS, NIS, NCDB, amongst others, for research in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. This can be evidenced by his substantial and high impact body of scholarship in many topics in the field. Dr. Eloy’s work and classification of approaches to frontal sinus surgery is now routinely applied worldwide.
Dr. Eloy already has an h-index of 61 (scopus) and 75 (google scholar), which is quite exceptional for 17 years as a faculty, a relatively short time period for his work to be cited. This is even more impressive for a small surgical subspecialty such as Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. For comparison to his peers, the average professor in Otolaryngology has an h-index of 15.6 and the average academic chair in the field has an h-index of 16.4.