University Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology in University of Palermo. Fellowship in Gruppo Otologico Piacenza with Prof. Mario Sanna. PhD in Clinical and Experimental Oncology. Main field of work in otology and neurotology, ear surgery, cochlear implant and bone conduction implant. Vestibular research.

Ph.D. of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical University, Sofia: Universal Newborn Hearing Screening with Electric Response Audiometry 2003; Inventor of UNHSP in Bulgaria 2000; Head of ENT Clinic, Trakia Hospital Stara Zagora since 2008; Head of Trakia Cochlear Implant Center, Trakia Hospital Stara Zagora since 2013.

 Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlker Akyıldız completed his medical education at Gazi University Faculty of Medicine in 2002 and received his specialization in Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) at the same university in 2008. Following his residency, he worked in various institutions across Turkey, gaining extensive clinical experience in both public and private healthcare settings.

He has served as an ENT specialist in several hospitals, including Suşehri State Hospital, Malatya State Hospital, İlgi Eye & ENT Private Center, and Ankara Training and Research Hospital. Since 2017, he worked at Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital, and he currently continues his clinical practice at Ankara Etlik City Hospital, Department of Otorhinolaryngology.

Dr. Akyıldız completed the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training certified by the Clinical Research Association in 2021 and holds a certificate in clinical research. He continues to contribute to the field through his academic and clinical work.

Dr. Said Sönmez, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. He specializes in otology and neurotology, with clinical and research interests including chronic otitis media, cholesteatoma, endoscopic ear surgery, hearing restoration, and skull base pathologies. Dr. Sönmez has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, and actively contributes to national and international ENT congresses as a speaker and panelist.

ENT specialist, subspeciality in audiology. Performing diagnostics and treatment of audiologic and neurotologic disorders. Present in the Croatian cochlear implant program from it’s start in 1996. At first performing intraoperative testing of the cochlear implant by means of visualy obtained stapedial reflex and later via telemetry. Doctoral thesis: “Prognostic value of intraoperative cochlear implant telemetry”.

Surgery for chronic otitis, otosclerosis, cochlear implantation, implantable bone conduction hearing devices, lateral scull base tumors.

Associate professor at the School of Medicine University of Zagreb.