09-12, 14:00– (Europe/Istanbul), Otology 1
Assoc. Prof. of ORL&HNS
Consultant Otorhinolaryngologist of Gaziantep City Hospital, Health Sciences University of the Health Ministry.
Field of expertise auditory brain stem & cochlear implantation, endoscopic ear surgery, otosclerosis surgery, and chronic otitis media surgery
I am an Otolaryngologist and Head and Neck Surgeon with a subspecialty in Otology-Neurotology. My research focuses on various hearing-related topics such as cochlear implantation, hearing loss, balance, vestibular disorders, and vestibular schwannoma. I am a professor of Otolaryngology at Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Otologist surgeon with special interest on stapes surgery and ossicular reconstruction of the middle ear. He has performed more than 7500 operations for otosclerosis, more than 4000 operations for ossicular reconstruction.
Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeon of Edinburgh (UK) and Honorary Member of the Indian Society of Otology. Member of several ENT societies such as the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), the European Academy of Otology & Neuro-Otology (EAONO), the Otosclerosis Study Group, the Prosper Meniere Society, the Mediterraneen Society of Otology and the Politzer Society. Founder and General of the Live International Otolaryngology Network which is promoting free HD videoconferencing advanced e-learning program on middle ear surgery.
He is on the editorial board of several scientific journals such as the Otology & Neurotology Journal, the Journal of the Mediterraneen Society of Otology, and also serves as a reviewer for a number of professional publications.
He is a yearly invited guest speaker and guest surgeon in many countries worldwide and has designed several middle ear prostheses and published new techniques in ossicular reconstruction. He has published many publications on middle ear surgery in several scientific journals and wrote chapters in several books on surgical technique in Otology
Marija Dokoska
Born 1981 September 29
Working place : University Clinic of ear nose and throat - Skopje R.N. Macedonia
Position : Chef of pediatric department
PhD in cochlear implantaion
Hans Thomeer has been appointed as an otolaryngologist since October 2014 at the UMC Utrecht, chaired by prof. Robert Stokroos. He is dedicated to specialized care and surgical rehabilitation of patients suffering from various otologic and neurotologic diseases (including profound sensorineural hearing loss, otosclerosis, chronic otitis media, superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome, etc.), as well as benign and malignant tumours of the skull base (including mainly vestibular schwannoma and paraganglioma surgery). He is also Chairman of the Cochlear Implantation Center Utrecht, where yearly about 90 implantations are done in patients (adults and children). He is the Chief of the Multidisciplinary Skull Base Team Utrecht.
Hans Thomeer performed his PhD-research on congenital middle ear anomalies and surgical outcomes (between 2009 and 2012, Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)) and was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Brain Center Rudolph Magnus at the University of Utrecht. He received a Senior Education Certificate for his long and outstandig work in Education and Digital Learning Environments. From January 2024 he has been promoted to Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, with a focus on Inner Ear Biology and Pathology: innovations in diagnostics and treatment strategies. He accepted a Guest Professorship at the Catholique University Leuven (Belgium) to continu his Inner Ear Research and enhance international collaboration.
He has currently published over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles.