Professor Suela SALLAVACI, MD, MsC, Ph.D

Suela Sallavaci is Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University Hospital Centre “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania.

She was graduated as General Physician from University of Tirana, Albania, Faculty of Medicine and University of Studies of Padua, Italy.

She has studied and practised at the most well-known ENT services in the UK, Italy, France, Austria, etc.

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.

Since 2001 she is senior lecturer at the University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.

In 1999 she opened the Audiology Service for the first time in Albania.

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”.

For the first time in Albania she organised the large scale screening programme of sixteen thousand children for hearing loss problems.

She has received two grants from EUFOS and British Academy of ORL-HNS.

She is a member of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and the contact person of IFOS and EUFOS for Albania. 

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.

During the period 2014-2016 she was President of Balkan Society of ORL-HNS.

She has authored the book “Deafness in children. Their treatment”; co-authored the textbook “The diseases of ear, nose, throat, head and neck” .

She is co-author of three books published from Springer: “ Challenges in Rhinology”; “ All around the nose”; “ Pediatric ENT infectious”etc.

She has published research articles in several scientific journals.

He became ENT specialist in 1991. He did research fellowship at the University of Minnesota Otopathology Lab by Professor M.M. Paparella (1993-1994), attended Audiologic Medicine MSc Program at the University College London (1996-1998). He has been working as academician for the last 20 years, of which period last 15 years at the Kütahya Health Sciences University, where he served as the head of the ENT Department for 13 years (currently), member and head of the Clinical Studies Ethics Committee (2016-2022) and Inter-university Board Member (2019-2022). Currently he is the (founding) chairman of the Midwest Anatolia (Zafer Region) Regional ORL-HNS Association. He is European and Turkish ORL-HNS Board certified and member of the International Hearing Foundation and Turkish Society of Otology and Neurotology.         

Yağmur Ünal is a Research Assistant in the Department of Audiology at Istanbul Medeniyet University and a PhD student in Audiology at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa. Her academic and research interests focus on cochlear implants, auditory perception, speech perception in challenging listening conditions, and advanced audiological assessment. Her work particularly explores functional outcomes in individuals with cochlear implants and the use of objective and behavioral measures to better understand auditory performance beyond conventional clinical assessments.