Professor Suela SALLAVACI, MD, MsC, Ph.D

Suela Sallavaci is Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University Hospital Centre “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania.

She was graduated as General Physician from University of Tirana, Albania, Faculty of Medicine and University of Studies of Padua, Italy.

She has studied and practised at the most well-known ENT services in the UK, Italy, France, Austria, etc.

Since 1998 ( year when she graduated as Otorhinolaryngologist at the University of Tirana), she practices as ENT surgeon. Her areas of expertise are: Otology, Rhinology, Pediatric ENT, Audiology, General Otorhinolaryngology.

Since 2001 she is senior lecturer at the University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.

In 1999 she opened the Audiology Service for the first time in Albania.

During the period 1999-2011 she organised and coordinated a project financed by the Italian government: “The diagnosis and the rehabilitation of deafness of Albanian children”.

For the first time in Albania she organised the large scale screening programme of sixteen thousand children for hearing loss problems.

She has received two grants from EUFOS and British Academy of ORL-HNS.

She is a member of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and the contact person of IFOS and EUFOS for Albania. 

During 2001-2009 she was the General Secretary of Albanian Society of ORL-HNS and during the period 2013-2018 she was President of the Albanian Society of ORL-HNS.

During the period 2014-2016 she was President of Balkan Society of ORL-HNS.

She has authored the book “Deafness in children. Their treatment”; co-authored the textbook “The diseases of ear, nose, throat, head and neck” .

She is co-author of three books published from Springer: “ Challenges in Rhinology”; “ All around the nose”; “ Pediatric ENT infectious”etc.

She has published research articles in several scientific journals.

Professor, senior consultant at the University hospital of Lund Sweden. Main researchwork is in infectious diseases, especially AOM, complications, diagnostics and treatment strategies. Clinically operating anterior skull base, facial trauma and pediatic ENT.