He was born 27 December 1967 in Afyonkarahisar. He graduated from Eskişehir Anatolian High School in 1985 and from Hacettepe University School of Medicine in 1991. He had his Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery residency training in Bursa Uludag University School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery between 1992 and 1996. He worked in the same department from 1996 until February 2022 as a full time professor. He retired from the department in February 2022 and currently working in his private clinic.

He has been in USA between August and October 2002, as a Visiting Professor in University of Pittsburgh, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, with special interest in Voice Disorders, Swallowing disorders and head and neck cancer surgery.

 He is a member and past president of Turkish Voice, Speech and Swallowing Disorders Society, a member and past president of Bursa ENT-HNS Specialists Society, a member of Advisory Board of Turkish Otolaryngology Head and Neck Society, a member of Founders Board of Turkish Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, a member of International Head and Neck Scientific Group.

 His special expertise and research interests are diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders, airway disorders, swallowing disorders, head and neck cancer including thyroid.

Co-founder of the Val de Grace Medical Center in Paris specialised in ENT and Sports Medicine. Honorary Consultant of ASDS/DASIL, ITMP USA and member of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery. Achieved over 30 humanitarian missions. Achieved the following trainings:

DIU Underwater-Hyperbaric Medicine

DIU Injectable Treatments of the Face

DIU Tropical Medicine

DIU Rhinology

DIUE LASERS

DIU Otological Implants

DPC Sleep Respiratory Pathologies

I am Dr. Ramil Hashimli, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof., an otorhinolaryngologist, phoniatrician, laryngeal surgeon, and academic physician with over 25 years of clinical experience. My professional focus lies in voice disorders, phoniatrics, laryngology, and outcomes-oriented clinical research, with a particular interest in bridging clinical practice, structured data, and artificial intelligence.

I currently serve as Vice-President of the Central and West Asian Association of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery (CWASOS) and as a member of the Extended Board of the Union of European Phoniatricians (UEP). Over the years, I have also served as Chair, Secretary, and member of the organizing and scientific committees of several national and international congresses and educational events.

A major part of my professional mission is to strengthen communication and scientific collaboration among otorhinolaryngologists across Central and West Asia. I am particularly committed to supporting the development of phoniatrics and laryngology in the region, creating opportunities for knowledge exchange, and contributing to the training and professional growth of young physicians through educational programs, workshops, congresses, and international collaboration.

I am actively involved in the ongoing initiative supporting Baku as the host city for the UEP Congress 2029 and serve as Chair of the local working group coordinating preparations for this major international meeting.

In addition to my clinical and scientific activities, I am deeply committed to medical and interdisciplinary education. I introduced and currently teach Vocology as an academic discipline in Azerbaijan, bringing together voice science, vocal physiology, clinical phoniatrics, and the needs of professional voice users.

I am also the founder and developer of APDVoice, an AI-oriented structured data and analytics platform designed to transform routine ENT–phoniatric documentation into standardized real-world evidence suitable for multicenter research, outcomes analysis, and future artificial intelligence applications.

My current academic interests include digital transformation in voice care, structured clinical datasets, precision phoniatrics, professional voice, laryngeal biomechanics, and the development of AI-ready clinical infrastructure. Alongside clinical practice, I remain actively engaged in undergraduate and postgraduate education, international scientific collaboration, and initiatives aimed at strengthening phoniatrics, laryngology, and professional exchange both regionally and globally.

Dr. Mawaddah Azman is an Associate Professor of Laryngology and the current Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia (UKM). She is actively engaged in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and previously served as a Fellow at the Centre for Teaching and Curriculum Development, UKM.

She plays a pivotal leadership role in the National ORL–HNS Postgraduate Training Board and currently serves as its Head. In addition, she is the Director of the UKM Clinical Fellowship Programme in Laryngology and Sleep Apnoea.

Dr. Mawaddah has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of laryngology, sleep medicine, and surgical nutrition, with her work published in journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), and other recognised international databases.

President of the Association of Phoniatrсians and Phonopedists of Russia

Representative of Russia and the countries of the former USSR in the Union of European Phoniatricians

President of the Congress of the Union of European Phoniatricians in Moscow in 2014 Phoniatrician of TV projects on Russian television: Participate in shows «Voice», « Voice Kids » and many others

Phoniatrician of the Russian delegation at Eurovision Song Contest 2012, 2016, 2019

A teacher with 30 years’ experience at the Department of Academic Singing and Opera Training at the Alfred Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music and an associate professor at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the Faculty of Postgraduate Education at the Pirogov Russian Medical University

Author of more than 133 scientific papers in the field of impaired vocal function, assistance to voice professionals, pathology of the vocal apparatus including

1.      Normal and Abnormal Vocal Folds Kinematics: High Speed Digital Phonoscopy (HSDP), Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) & Narrow Band Imaging (NBI®). Izdebski, Yan, Ward, Wong, Cruz. Vol. II — Applications, ­ — USA, San Francisco, 2016. P. 466.

2.      Normal and Abnormal Vocal Folds Kinematics: High Speed Digital Phonoscopy (HSDP), Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) & Narrow Band Imaging (NBI®). Izdebski, Yan, Ward, Wong, Cruz. Vol. I — Technology, ­ — USA, San Francisco, 2015. P. 268.

3.      Phoniatrics I Fundamentals – Voice Disorders – Disorders of Language and Hearing Development. Zehnhoff-Dinnesen, Wiskirska-Woznica, Neumann, Nawka. Park of the book series: European manual of Medicine (EUROMANUAL), — Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019. P. 856.

4.      Oncological pathology in the practice of an otorhinolaryngologist / Daikhes N.A., Vinogradov V.V., Reshulsky S.S., Kim I.A., Osipenko E.V. GEOTAR-Media, — Moscow, 2021. P. 144 (Russian language)

5.      Manual for patients who have undergone laryngectomy: A practical guide / Daikhes N.A., Vinogradov V.V., Reshulsky S.S., Kravtsov S.A., Osipenko E.V., Isaeva M.L., Krivykh Y.S., Mikhalevskaya I.A., Borovova I.V. Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Medical Research Center of Otorhinolaryngology of the Federal Medicalbiological agency". — Moscow, 2021. P. 97 (Russian language)

6.      Occupational diseases of the ENT organs: A guide / under the general editorship of the corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences Bukhtiyarov I.V., corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences by Daikhes N.A., GEOTAR-Media, —Moscow, 2021. P. 544 (Russian language)

7.      Occupational diseases of the ENT organs: A guide / under the general editorship of Academic of the Russian Academy of Sciences Bukhtiyarov I.V., corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences by Daikhes N.A., GEOTAR-Media, —Moscow, 2023. P. 552 (Russian language)

8.      Occupational pathology: National guidelines / under the general editorship of Academic of the Russian Academy of Sciences Bukhtiyarov I.V., GEOTAR-Media, —Moscow, 2024. P. 904 (Russian language)

9.      Otorhinolaryngology: A national guide in 3 volumes/ edited by Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Professor Daikhes N.A., Academic of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yanova Y.K.; executive editor – Kim I.A. – Moscow: Publishing house "Editorial Board", 2024. P. 904

10.  Professional and production-dependent dysphonia: A guide / Pankova V.B., Osipenko E.V., Fedina I.N. GEOTAR-Media, Moscow, 2025. P. 128

3 patents, 10 manuals.