Prof. Piotr H. Skarzynski, MD, PhD, MSc realises scientific work in the World Hearing Center of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and Institute of Sensory Organs.

Specialist in ENT, pediatric ENT, audiology and phoniatrics, and public health. Participated in the 3^rd Stakeholders Consultation meeting during which the World Hearing Forum of WHO was announced. A member of the Roster of Experts on Digital Health of WHO, Board Member and Institutional Representative of the International Society for Telemedicine and e-Health (ISfTeH), President of International Advisory Board of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), member of Congress and Meeting Department of European Academy of Otology and Neuro-Otology (EAONO), Regional Representative of Europe of International Society of Audiology (ISA), Vice-President of Hearring Group, Auditor of European Federation of Audiology Societies (EFAS), member of the Facial Nerve Stimulation Steering Committee, and Board Secretary of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngologists, Phoniatrists and Audiologists (TOFAP). Member of Hearing Committee (2018–2019), Goodwill Ambassador representing Poland at the AAO-HNSF 2021 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience, and since 2021 a member of the Implantable Hearing Devices Committee and Otology & Neurotology Education Committee of AAO-HNS. Consultant Committee of International Experts of CPAM-VBMS (for special invitation), honorary member of ORL Danube Society, and Société Française d’Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie. Member of the Council of National Science Center (NCN). Expert and member of numerous national organisations. Moreover, expert and reviewer of national and international projects, and a reviewer of national and international scientific journals, mostly with Impact Factor value.

Prof. Piotr H. Skarzynski, MD, PhD, MSc executes numerous national and international projects connected with hearing screening programs, implantable hearing devices, telemedicine, and e-health in numerous European, Asian, and African countries. 

Research interests: ENT surgery, otology, rhinology, ear reconstruction, hearing implantable devices and hearing aids, telemedicine and e-Health, robotics, tinnitus, and hearing screening in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America.Prof. Piotr H. Skarzynski, MD, PhD, MSc realises scientific work in the World Hearing Center of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and Institute of Sensory Organs.

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

Education

l  Graduated from Shanghai Second Medical University in 2005 with a MD degree of Otorhinolaryngology

l  Obtained Ph.D of Neuroscience from Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier 1 in 2012

l  Accomplished postdoctoral research at laboratory of minimally invasive robotic surgery for hearing rehabilitation, UMR-S1159 of INSERM / University of Paris 6 in 2017.

Academic titles

l  East-Asia regional secretary and research committee member of YO-IFOS

l  Membre of Young otorhinolaryngologists group, Chinese Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

l  Member of Otology Group, Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery  Society, Shanghai Medical Association

Research interests:

l  Experimental and clinical study of cochlear implantation

l  R & D of otological robot

l  Clinical study of functional or endoscopic otological surgery