ENT Scientific Advisory Board Members

PROFESSOR SANDOVAL MARTA
Professor at the university of Barcelona & specialist at the ENT department at Hospital Clinic de Barcelona ∼ Spain
« CADISS® has become an important instrument for my daily surgery to deal with tympanic membrane retractions, primary and recurrence of middle ear cholesteatomas. It is an easy instrument to use and helps remove the whole disease from the middle ear.
Looking forward to get more exprience with it ! »
Background
- Graduate in Medicine and Surgery at the university of Barcelona in 1992.
- Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery at the university of Barcelona in 2004.
- Doctoral Thesis title: Prognostic role of clinical and epidemiological factors in a cohort of patients with oral cavity cancer and oropharynx.
- Publications of 15 articles.
- Member of SCORL, SEORL & Global ENT Outreach.
Current activities as a specialist doctor
- Deputy doctor of the Otorhinolaryngology service, clinical hospital and provincial of Barcelona. Attached to the otology and otoneurologic section.
- Senior consultant of otorhinolaryngology, ENT center of the Quiron Salud Barcelona. General consultation focused on practice of otology and otonareurology as well as being part of the Head and Neck Oncology commission of the Hospital Quiron Salud in Barcelona, also managing cancer patients from both a medical and surgical point of view.
Actual Reseach Poject
In Collaboration with AuXin Surgery & Suministros Hospitalarios
Chemically Assisted Dissection System (CADISS) with MESNA in Cholesteatoma Chronic Otitis Media.
M. Sandoval, X. Altuna, E.Berrocal, M. López Amado, V. Murcia, J. Peñarrocha, L. A. Vallejo, C. Carvalho, F. Larrosa, C.Pinto, L.F. Silva.

PROFESSOR CHOVANEC MARTIN
Associate professor at Charles University in Prague, 3rd Medical Faculty, University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady
Background
- 1996-2002: 1st Faculty of Medicine - M.D.
- 2002-2006: PGS in field of Biology and pathology of the cell, 1st Faculty of Medicine
- 2006 - Ph.D.
Current activities as a specialist doctor
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University - Prague
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of Teaching Hospital Motol
Main topics and interest
- Glyko-phenotype normal and malignant squamous epithelium of the head and neck.
- Study of dendritic cells in the ORL mucosa in health and disease.
- Glyko-phenotype characterization of glioma cell lines.
- The study of anatomy in ORL. ORL and head and neck surgery.

PROFESSOR MAURIZIO BARBARA
Otorhinolaryngologist in Roma, Italy
Background
- 1978 - Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the G. D'Annunzio University of Chieti
- 1981 - Specialization in Otorhinolaryngology and Cervico-Facial Pathology
- 1986 - Specialization in Phoniatrics and Audiology
- 1988 - PhD in Internal Histopathology at the Karolinska Institut in Stockholm, Sweden
Current activities as a specialist doctor
More than 40 years of experience
- 2016 - 2022 - Director of the NESMOS University Department (Neuroscience, mental health and sense organs) of La Sapienza University of Rome
- Coordinator for the Sant'Andrea office of the School of Specialization in Otorhinolaryngology at the La Sapienza University of Rome
- 2006 - 2019 - Director of the Integrated Department of Sensory Organs at the AO Sant'Andrea di Roma
- Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology of the La Sapienza University of Rome
Sub-specialties
- BAHA prosthesis
- Invisible Esteem implantable prostheses
Professional membership
- Italian Society of Otolaryngology
- Italian Society of Audiology and Phoniatrics
- Politzer Society
- Collegium Amicitiae Sacrum
- European Academy of Otology & Neuro-Otology
- Charles Bell's Society
- Barany Society