Biography:

Deputy Chief of Medical Services for Centres of Excellence GH

Ex Chairperson ENT and Maxillofacial Services at Government Hospitals,

Director of Cochlear and Hearing Implantable devices program in Salmaniya Medical Complex- Bahrain.

Consultant ENT Surgeon. Subspecialty in Paediatric ENT and Cochlear and other Implantable hearing devices from Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh UK

Fellow of the American College of Surgeons

ENT Coordinator at Arabian Gulf University

PROFESSOR AND CHAIRMAN, ATHENS 2 nd ENT Department of Athens University

Chief Physician, Doctoral Supervisor, and National Outstanding Young Physician. My career has been devoted to bridging clinical otology with translational hearing science.My practice encompasses the full arc of hearing healthcare: from newborn hearing screening and early diagnosis to designing individualized intervention strategies for patients with mild, moderate, severe, or profound sensorineural hearing loss. I specialize in cochlear implantation with meticulous attention to residual hearing preservation. A significant portion of my surgical caseload involves challenging congenital malformations—such as Mondini deformities, common cavity anomalies, narrow internal auditory canals, and cochlear nerve hypoplasia—requiring advanced preoperative evaluation and highly customized implantation techniques. Additionally, I routinely perform implantable bone conduction procedures, including BAHA and BoneBridge systems, and execute middle ear reconstructive surgeries for chronic otitis media.At the frontier of precision medicine, I have translated laboratory breakthroughs into clinical reality by leading the world’s first gene therapy clinical trials for OTOF-related auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder. This work embodies my commitment to curing, not merely compensating for, hereditary hearing loss.

Professor Jafri Kuthubutheen is a Hearing Implant, Otology and Skull Base Surgeon based in Perth, Western Australia. He is a Clinical Professor at the University of Western Australia and the director of the Otology and Skull Base Surgery Fellowship program at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He is also the medical lead for the Statewide Children's Hearing Implant Program and the Clinical Lead for the WA Country Health Services ENT program. He has a sub-specialist qualification Otology, Hearing and Skull Base Surgery from the University of Toronto and obtained his PhD from the University of Western Australia in the field of cochlear implantation. He has published 96 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals, presented over 50 papers at national and international conferences, and conducted over 15 surgical workshops. His research interests are in the field of hearing loss, cochlear implantation, chronic ear disease, and skull base surgery. He has been a regular invited faculty member to teach ENT surgeons from the Asia Pacific Region on the latest surgical techniques. Professor Kuthubutheen is an editorial board member of the Australia Journal of Otolaryngology and was the Scientific Convener for the 2024 Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Annual Scientific Congress.