Current position

Chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology

Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, CVK/CCM

1999 Recognition as specialist for Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

2006 Recognition as specialist for plastic surgery

2007 Recognition as specialist for Allergy

since 2010 Chair and Director of the Department of Otolaryngology, CCM and CVK, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Clinical focus

• Ear surgery, skull base surgery, Cochlear implant and other hearing implants

Research Focus

• Cochlear implant: complex outcome measurement in different CI groups (DSD, SSD, AHL)

CI and cognition, CI and VS

Mario E. Zernotti is professor of ENT at Catholic University of Córdoba and National University of Villa Maria, and also professor of Clinics of Hearing at National University of Córdoba. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field of ear surgery in Sanatorium Allende. He was the pioneer in electro acoustic stimulation (EAS) and hearing preservation in all America, doing the first cases of EAS cochlear implants in the continent.  Besides, his team was the first to did Active Middle Ear Implants and bone conductive prosthesis in the region. This group is working specially in atresia/microtia patients, very common malformation in South-America, and northwest of Argentina, doing a comprehensive approach to the problem. Member of Hearring, Past president of GCIAN (Global Cochlear Implant Access Network) and President of the 8^th World Congress on CI in Emerging Nations (2024).

Dr Julia Sarant is a Professor in Audiology in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne. She has 30+ years of experience in hearing loss related research and leads the Hearing Loss and Cognition Program in the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology. 

Julia’s research program includes work on:

·      whether hearing interventions (hearing aids and cochlear implants) can delay cognitive decline/dementia

·      medical comorbidities and markers/predictors of hearing loss

·      barriers to GP referral for hearing care

·      barriers to hearing aid take-up and use

·      developing behavioural interventions to address barriers to hearing care

·      health economics evaluations of the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of interventions

Prof. Dr. med. Kristen Rak is the senior consultant of otology and the senior physician of the Comprehensive Hearing Center Würzburg. His clinical specialties are in otology, especially cochlear implants, active middle ear implants and middle ear surgery. These areas are also his main interest in research alongside with radiological diagnostics of the inner ear structures, navigation of the lateral skull base and inner ear biology. He is the author/coauthor of over 120 peer reviewed articles.