Dr Isabelle Gengler is an American and French facial plastics and reconstructive surgeon who specializes in rhinoplasty, facial nerve reanimation surgery, reconstructive microsurgery, and cosmetic surgery of the face. She completed medical school and Otolaryngology-HNS residency in France, then moved to the United-States where she completed a second Otolaryngology residency, followed by a fellowship in Facial Plastics and Reconstructive surgery of the face at the Johns Hopkins hospital in 2025. She is now an attending physician at the Thomas Jefferson University/Lehigh Valley Hospital Center, where she is establishing a reconstructive center dedicated to facial nerve and reconstructive surgery. She performs both cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries, in adults and children. She also serves as the Vice Chair of Research for the YO-IFOS group since 2023.

I started ENT Career in Ukraine and was working as an Pediatric ENT in the Children’s Hospital.

Since 2022 I am an ENT Resident at the Medical University of Graz

Eleonora Trecca, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology (MEDS-18/A) at the University of Foggia, Italy. She earned her PhD in Translational Medicine from the same university and has gained extensive international experience in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Denmark, Germany, and Malta. From 2020 to 2025, Dr. Trecca worked as an Otolaryngologist at IRCCS Research Hospital Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, one of the leading hospitals in Southern Italy. During this period, she refined her clinical and surgical expertise in otology, neurotology, and auditory implants, and actively contributed to research, education, and multidisciplinary collaboration in the field. Her most recent international appointment was as a Research Scholar Programme in Otology, Neurotology, and Cranial Base Surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital (USA).

Dr. Trecca conducts clinical and translational research across various domains of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and has received numerous awards, scholarships, and invitations to national and international conferences in recognition of her scientific contributions. Her main areas of interest include:

• Smell and taste disorders

• Otology, Neurotology, and Auditory Implants

• Pediatric Otolaryngology

• E-Health and Artificial Intelligence

She has been honored with multiple distinctions, including the American Rhinologic Society (ARS) Fall Poster Award and CRS Scholarship (2018), Best Scientific Contribution in Audiology and Otology at the Academy AUORL Meeting (2019), the AUORL Award for Best Dissertation in Otolaryngology and Italian Society of Audiology (SIAF) Scholarship (2021), and the European Rhinologic Society (ERS) Fellowship (2024).

Dr. Trecca currently serves as Secretary of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (SIOeChCF) and as National Coordinator of the Young Otolaryngologists Group (GOS). Internationally, she is also the Chair of the Congress Committee of the Young Otolaryngologists of IFOS (Yo-IFOS).

Training for ENT in Amsterdam (Academic medical center Amsterdam)

Working as a consultant pediatric ENT surgeon in Antwerp since 2018.

PhD on complicated head&neck infections in 2019.

President of the Dutch-Flemmish society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Specialised in rhinology, skull base surgery, facial plastics, sleep surgery