Marco Ferrari serves as Associate Professor at the University of Padova (Padova, Italy) and Consultant at the Padova University Hospital (“Azienda Ospedale Università Padova”; Padova, Italy). He trained in Brescia, Italy, and complete research fellowship in Toronto (Ontario, Canada) and Padova. His main interests are head and neck oncological surgery and ventral skull base surgery, with special interest for sinonasal, salivary, and mesenchymal cancers management. He authored a number of book chapters and peer-reviewed publications, and serves as reviewer and member of the editorial board for several journals. He also authored the book entitled Endoscopic Transnasal Anatomy of the Skull Base and Adjacent Areas, published by Thieme.

Ehab Hanna, M.D., FACS, is an internationally recognized head and neck surgeon and expert in the treatment of patients with skull base tumors and head and neck cancer. Dr. Hanna is currently a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery with a joint appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. He served as the medical director of the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Center for 20 years (2004-2023) and is currently the director of the Skull Base Tumor program. For the last 15 years, Dr. Hanna has consistently been named one of America's Best Doctors and Top Doctors in Cancer. In addition to patient care, Dr. Hanna is actively engaged in clinical and translational research with emphasis on skull base tumors. He authored over 350 publications, invited articles, book chapters, and editorials. He co-edited several major textbooks on Cancer of the Head and Neck, Cancer of the Larynx, and Comprehensive Management of Skull Base Tumors. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Head & Neck for 15 years from 2007 to 2022. Dr. Hanna served as the President of the North American Skull Base Society (2013-2014) and the President of the American Head and Neck Society (2018-2019). He is currently the Secretary General of the International Federation of Head & Neck Oncologic Societies, the largest organization in the world for Head and Neck Oncology.

Having been trained in Germany, the UK and Australia, Dr. Betz is chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at UKE Hamburg. His primary clinical interests are rhinologic surgery, head and neck surgery and anterior skull base surgery. He is involved in numerous scientific projects and in various scientific societies.