<p>Associate Professor Oliver Profant, MD, PhD is Chief Physician of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Královské Vinohrady University Hospital and Associate Professor at the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He is also a researcher at the Department of Auditory Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences.</p> <p>After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava, he joined the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Motol University Hospital in 2006. Since 2017, he has been affiliated with the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Královské Vinohrady University Hospital, where he has served as Chief Physician since 2018. He became board-certified in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery in 2011, received his PhD in Neuroscience in 2014, and was appointed Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology in 2025.</p> <p>He completed clinical and research fellowships at internationally recognized centers in Mainz (Prof. Mann), Hannover (Prof. Lenarz), and Los Angeles (Prof. Brackmann). His clinical expertise includes audiology, otoneurology, otologic surgery, hearing rehabilitation, and lateral skull base surgery.</p> <p>His research focuses on age-related hearing loss, tinnitus, central auditory processing, hearing and cognition, auditory neurophysiology, and multimodal neuroimaging. He has coordinated and participated in numerous national and international research projects investigating the interaction between hearing loss, brain plasticity, and cognitive decline. His work combines advanced audiological testing with electrophysiology and structural and functional MRI to improve the diagnosis and management of hearing disorders.</p> <p>Associate Professor Profant has authored 36 peer-reviewed original and review articles indexed in the Web of Science (over 800 citations, H-index 15), contributed eight book chapters, and serves as a reviewer for several international journals. He is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, supervises PhD students, and is the academic guarantor of the certified postgraduate course Technical Audiology.</p>

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