Prof. Dr. Ömer Faruk Çalım graduated from Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, and completed his residency training in Otorhinolaryngology at Bezmialem Vakıf University, where he also achieved the Associate Professor. He was later appointed as Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at Istanbul Medipol University, where he has served as the Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology since 2025.

He is a board member of the Association of Istanbul Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery Specialists. His interests include pediatric otolaryngology, pediatric airway disorders, sialorrhea, and swallowing disorders.

Prof. Dr. Çalım is a board member of Doctors Worldwide Türkiye (Yeryüzü Doktorları Derneği), after previously serving as a volunteer supporting humanitarian healthcare and medical education projects. He is married and the father of three sons.

I am and Associate Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology at University of Texas Medical branch

DR ISAAC OKYEREMAH KOFI BARNOR IS A SENIOR SPECIALIST IN OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY FROM THE GHANA COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, WITH A SUB-SPECIALTY IN PAEDIATRIC ENT (AIRWAY MANAGEMENT) FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA. BY THIS, HE IS THE FIRST PAEDIATRIC ENT SURGEON THAT THE COUNTRY HAS PRODUCED.

DR BARNOR IS THE DEPUTY MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND LEAD CLINICIAN OF ST PETER HOSPITAL AND ALSO AN ENT CONSULTANT AT ST MICHEAL HOSPITAL, PRAMSO. HE IS ALSO A SENIOR LECTURER PART-TIME, AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY , KNUST, KUMASI. HE IS PRESENTLY THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY SOCIETY OF GHANA.

DR BARNOR HAS GREAT INTEREST IN CHILD HEALTH, TEACHING, MENTORSHIP, COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CLINICAL RESEARCH.

Haytham Kubba trained in the UK including time as a research registrar at the Medical Research Council’s Institute for Hearing Research and as clinical fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.  He has been a consultant in children’s ENT in Glasgow since 2003 and is an Honorary Associate Professor in Child Health at Glasgow University.  He established Scotland's National Service for Paediatric Airway Reconstruction Surgery in 2006.  He has recently returned from an 18-month sabbatical at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.  His clinical interests are neurodisability, head and neck malformations and airway surgery.  He has published over 150 research papers.  He is the President of ENT Scotland and immediate Past-President of the British Association for Paediatric Otolaryngology.