Michael Hoa, MD, is a board certified neurotologist-otologist, an established surgeon-scientist at the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Hoa completed his neurotology fellowship at the House Clinic in Los Angeles in 2012. Dr. Hoa serves as the director of the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Cochlear Implant Program which provides comprehensive cochlear implant services to both pediatric and adult populations. His main research interests as an NIH-funded surgeon-scientist include hearing restoration and preservation and the identification of novel and repurposable therapeutics in the setting of hearing instability disorders and cochlear implantation. In addition, he has clinical interests in both surgical management of vestibular schwannoma, endoscopic and microscopic management of cholesteatoma and chronic ear disease, otosclerosis, paraganglioma management, and lateral skull base encephalocele and CSF leak management.

Dr. Chien is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also the principal investigator of the Section on Inner Ear Therapeutics at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).

Hospital Practitioner, ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Otology, Children's Audiology

Head of the Ped. Audiophonology and Cochlear Implant Unit - Necker-Enfants malades Hospital, Paris

Member of the UMRS 1120 Unit, and of the Center for Rare Diseases-Genetic Deafness

Career

1999--: MD PHD, ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Armand-Trousseau Children's Hospital, and at Necker-Enfants malades Paris, since 2012

2003---: Head of the Pediatric Audiophonology and Cochlear Implant Department, in Armand-Trousseau Children's Hospital and in Necker Enfants malades

2020---: Head of the Audiology Research Platform at Necker

2022-2024: President of the French Association of Pediatric ENT (AFOP)

2024---: Board member - French Society of Audiology 

Academic activities

Head of the Pediatric Audiophonology and Cochlear Implant Uni

Head of the Audiology Research Platform at Necker

 Otologic surgery, cochlear implant surgery

Major grants

·       2008-2009: National PHRC co-investigator: study on the cost of cochlear implants in France.

·       2015-2019: Principal Investigator for Bi-center clinical study: CNRS APHP – Analysis of the development of temporal areas by fNIRS

·       2017-2019: ISLODA Co-Investigator: Bi-center study (PHRIC) – Impact of the use of LENA in the rehabilitation of the implanted child

·       2017-2021: WP1 RHU- Light4Death (Research on Deaf Patients with Usher Syndrome)

·       2019-2025: RHU4 Project Manager - Audinnove

·       2025-2027: Project leader and principal investigator PHRC Asymic ped

·       2024- : Scientific Lead and Principal Investigator -  Audiogene- Gene Therapy Study

Conference organization

OTOFORUM 2027, Paris, France

Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, FACS, is the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, and professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery. She is a Harvard-trained ear and skull-base surgeon and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained auditory neuroscientist. She blends her surgical expertise with training in physics, molecular biology, auditory neuroscience, and systems electrophysiology to devise novel solutions tailored to the unmet needs of those with hearing loss. She is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine and President-Elect of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.

Dr. Cheng is a surgeon-scientist and the Sewall Professor in Otolaryngology at Stanford University. He serves as the chief of the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology and the Director of the Stanford Clinician Scientist Training Program in the Department of Otolaryngology-HNS at Stanford. Clinically, he specializes in pediatric otology.