<p>Professor Suela SALLAVACI, MD, MsC, Ph.D</p> <p>Suela Sallavaci is Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University Hospital Centre “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania.</p> <p>She was graduated as General Physician from University of Tirana, Albania, Faculty of Medicine and University of Studies of Padua, Italy.</p> <p>She has studied and practised at the most well-known ENT services in the UK, Italy, France, Austria, etc.</p> <p>Since 1998 ( year when she graduated as Otorhinolaryngologist at the University of Tirana), she practices as ENT surgeon. Her areas of expertise are: Otology, Rhinology, Pediatric ENT, Audiology, General Otorhinolaryngology.</p> <p>Since 2001 she is senior lecturer at the University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.</p> <p>In 1999 she opened the Audiology Service for the first time in Albania.</p> <p>During the period 1999-2011 she organised and coordinated a project financed by the Italian government: “The diagnosis and the rehabilitation of deafness of Albanian children”.</p> <p>For the first time in Albania she organised the large scale screening programme of sixteen thousand children for hearing loss problems.</p> <p>She has received two grants from EUFOS and British Academy of ORL-HNS.</p> <p>She is a member of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and the contact person of IFOS and EUFOS for Albania.</p> <p>During 2001-2009 she was the General Secretary of Albanian Society of ORL-HNS and during the period 2013-2018 she was President of the Albanian Society of ORL-HNS.</p> <p>During the period 2014-2016 she was President of Balkan Society of ORL-HNS.</p> <p>She has authored the book “Deafness in children. Their treatment”; co-authored the textbook “The diseases of ear, nose, throat, head and neck” .</p> <p>She is co-author of three books published from Springer: “ Challenges in Rhinology”; “ All around the nose”; “ Pediatric ENT infectious”etc.</p> <p>She has published research articles in several scientific journals.</p>

<p>I have been full professor for the last 11 years, I atended to the MSc program in Audiological Medicine at the University College London, UK. I have special interest in Audiology, Otology-Neurootology. Currently, I am the head of the Kütahya Health Sciences University Medical Faculty, ORL-HNS Department.</p>

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