Managing Traumatic CSF Leaks of the Anterior Skull Base: Challenging Cases
09-12, 08:30–09:30 (Europe/Istanbul), Rhinology 2 ( ICC - B2 level MACKA)

Managing Traumatic CSF Leaks of the Anterior Skull Base: Challenging Cases

Prof. Dr. Özgür Kemal was born in Trabzon in 1977. After high school, he enrolled in Ankara University Faculty of Medicine. Completing his 6-year medical education in 2001, Dr. Özgür Kemal started his ear, nose and throat education at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, ENT Department in the same year. At the end of 2006, he was entitled to become an ENT specialist. In 2007, he started compulsory service in Diyarbakır State Hospital. In 2011, he started to work in Samsun after compulsory service. In 2014, he started to work as an assistant professor at Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Medicine. In 2017, Dr. Özgür Kemal was entitled to become an associate professor and in 2023 he was appointed as a professor. Although he focuses more on endoscopic nasal surgery, rhinoplasty and voice diseases, he has experience in general approaches of ENT. Prof.Dr.Özgür Kemal is a member of Turkish ENT BBC Association, Turkish Rhinology Association, Turkish Facial Plastic Surgery Association European Rhinology Association, European Facial Plastic Surgery Association. He also passed the European Otorhinolaryngology Board and Turkish Board exams and was entitled to be the jury of both exams.

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John M. DelGaudio, MD completed residency training in Otolaryngology at The University of Michigan in 1995, then joined the faculty at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.  He is Chief of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery and the Gerald S. Gussack Endowed Professor of Otolaryngology. His practice focuses on Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery.

Dr. DelGaudio is Past President of the American Rhinologic Society, Metro Atlanta Otolaryngology Society, and Georgia Society of Otolaryngology. He has received multiple awards for teaching and service, including the Golden Head Mirror Award (American Rhinologic Society),  and Gerald Gussack and Lester Brown Awards (Georgia Society of Otolaryngology).

He has published over 160 papers, 30 book chapters, and edited the textbook Office Based Rhinology (2013). He’s a frequent speaker nationally and internationally on Central Compartment Atopic Disease (which he discovered), allergy and CRSwNP, office rhinologic surgery, orbital tumor surgery,  skull base reconstruction, and many other topics