Dean, College of Medicine & Health Sciences

Professor & Senior Consultant ENT Surgery

College of Medicine & Health Sciences

Sultan Qaboos University 

Chairman, ENT Scientific Council, Arab Board for Health Specialization

Editor in Chief JOMA (Journal of Oman Medical Association)

Associate Editor, SQUMJ (Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal)

Board member, Oman Medical Association

GCC ORL Society, General Secretary

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

Prof. Mario Milkov, MD, PhD graduated from Medical University “Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stojanov” – Varna in 1995.

Since 2002, he has been a specialist in Otorhinolaryngology, Surgery of the Head and Neck. In 2005, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis related to modern ossicular prostheses.

Main professional and scientific interests in the field of otology, neurotology, audio-vestibular medicine, biomaterials, sleep medicine, hearing prevention in newborns and early childhood. He holds a patent for the first Bulgarian ossicular prosthesis.

He is the creator of the bulgarian society of “obstructive sleep apnea and snoring” in 2012. He proposes and creates together with colleagues from the Black Sea countries the “International Black Sea Otological and Neurootological Association“ in 2017.

Prof. Mario Milkov is the Head of the Department “Dental materials science and prosthetic dental medicine” in Faculty of Dental medicine, Medical University – Varna.

Since March 2024 is appointed as Vice-Rector for “International relations”, Medical University – Varna.

He works at the “Audio-vestibular and sleep medicine” sector, University Medical and Dental Center.

Prof. Milkov is the Chairperson of the “Alumni club and Friends” – Medical University – Varna.

A corresponding academic member of national and international associations.

Has more than 180 scientific publications. Participated in over 190 world and national congresses, symposiums, specialized courses.

He has been the editor-in-chief of the journal „International Bulletin of Otorhinolaryngology“ since 2004. A member of the editorial board of five international medical journals in and other Bulgarian medical journals.