I graduated from the Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 2003. I completed my Ear, Nose and Throat training at Gazi University Faculty of Medicine and became an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist in 2008. I worked as assistant professor and associated professor in Gaziantep University. I currently work as a professor in Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University.

Prof Vijayendra Honnurappa is the Director of Vijaya ENT Care Centre, Bangalore, India. He is an honorary visiting professor at BLDE University, Vijayapura ; KLE University, Belagavi, India ,and Otology faculty at University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. Prof Vijayendra is a past president of the Indian Society of Otology.

His hospital, Vijaya ENT Care centre is a major training site for the Ethio-American otology fellowship program . His annual live surgical otology conferences are attended by more than 1000 delegates every year from across the world. He is the author of two otology books “A colour atlas of temporal bone dissection” and “Otology demystified”

He specialises in otology surgeries including cholesteatoma, facial nerve surgeries, otosclerosis and tympanosclerosis surgeries