Ahmed Alamadi

Consultant Otologist, Neurotologist & Medical Director | United Arab Emirates

Kuwait Hospital

Dr. Ahmad AlAmadi is a renowned Otolaryngologist in the UAE, with more than 27 years of experience in all ENT procedures. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees in 1993 at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and completed his surgical training at the Royal College of Surgeon Glasgow in 1998. He later completed his fellowship in Neurotology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He holds overall 3 decades of experience in clinical, surgical, and administrative healthcare. He currently holds 21 years of clinical experience as a consultant and Head of Department in the UAE, with special interest in the field of dizziness and imbalance, and 27years of surgical experience in all ENT procedures, especially in microsurgical skills in Otology and Neurotology. For the past two decades, he has been Head of Department, 9 years as a Medical Director, and additionally Head of Evaluation Committee for Higher Degrees (MOH). Dr. Ahmad AlAmadi’s keen interest lies in Otoplasty, Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Hearing Loss, Infectious Diseases, Tinnitus, Vertigo, Throat disorders. He is also an academician, lecturer and professor. He is the Program Director for the Arab Board Program in the UAE and Head of the Scientific Committee of the Emirati Board UAE. He is Involved in teaching ENT colleagues through the Emirates Medical Association, and is now associated with the prestigious University of Sharjah teaching aspiring students. He has published over nine research papers and co-authored an e-book. His area of expertise includes, Cochlear Implant Surgery Otoplasty Endoscopic Ear Surgery Hearing Loss Infectious Diseases Tinnitus Vertigo Throat Disorders

Ghada Bin Khamis

Au.D, Ph.D. | Saudi Arabia

Medel

Expert Cochlear Implant, Evoked Potentials, and Pediatric Audiologist, Published Researcher, Leader, and Clinical Trainer.

Neil Donnelly

Consultant Otoneurological & Skull Base Surgeon | United Arab Emirates

Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals

Neil Donnelly was appointed as a Consultant Otoneurological & Skull Base Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2009. He completed Undergraduate and Postgraduate training in London. Fellowship training in Skull Base Surgery, Otology and Hearing Implantation was undertaken in the UK and Australia. He has a Masters degree in Audiovestibular Medicine. He has undertaken Head and Neck Anatomy supervisions at Homerton since 2020. As a Consultant at Cambridge University Hospitals, he is a member of a team delivering high quality care in Skull Base Surgery, Otology and Hearing Implantation. He was involved in establishing 360o skull base surgery in Cambridge and is Council Member of the British Skull Base Society. He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers in the fields of hearing implantation, vestibular schwannomas, Ménière's disease and cholesteatoma surgery: with over 1100 citations and an h-index of 21. F

Motasaddi Zarandy

Head and chairman of the ENT department Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran | Iran

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Amiralam Hospita

Prof. Motasaddi has been trained in Iran, Germany and Canada where he received his followship and subspecialty in Otology/ Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery.

Muaaz Tarabichi

ENT & Otolaryngologist Surgeon | United Arab Emirates

Neuro Spinal Hospital

Dr. Tarabichi is a world-renowned Ear and Sinus Surgeon, and the Co-Founder of Tarabichi Stammberger Ear and Sinus Institute (TSESI) in Dubai UAE, the Institute is a group of ENT surgeons and healthcare research personnel whose sole mission is to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness, and cost of medical interventions in Ear and Sinus Surgery. A pioneer in Endoscopic Ear and Sinus Surgery, for the last 30 years he has spearheaded and established groundbreaking and revolutionary medical techniques in the field, including the Tarabichi Stitch for Endoscopic Ear Surgery, as well as the Eustachian Tuboplasty Technique known as Endoscopic Transtympanic Eustachian Tube Dilatation.

Codruta Neumann

Specialist ENT Consultant | United Kingdom

William Harvey Hospital and Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

Codruta Neumann trained in the UK and her specialist ENT training included the prestigious Otology Fellowship at Addenbrookes Hospital, in Cambridge. During her training she completed a Masters Degree in Evidence Based Medicine and Health Technology Assessment. She conducted clinical research in age-related hearing loss in the world-renowned Sanger Institute and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. Appointed as a Consultant in Kent in 2014 she has dedicated herself to building a centre of excellence in ear surgery. She led the development of a local hearing implant centre that offers a variety of solutions to patients such as BAHA, Bonebridge, Soundbridge and Osia. Codruta Neumann’s dedication to the teaching and training of ENT surgeons has resulted in her being invited to many national and international courses as faculty including the Cambridge Advance Otology Course, ENT Masterclass and London Temporal Bone Course, amongst others. It is her passion to inspire and train a new generation of doctors in her role as a Senior Lecturer in ENT at the Kent and Medway Medical School. She teaches in the MCh in ENT Surgery at the Canterbury and Christchurch University. Codruta Neumann has built a national and international reputation of excellence and is invited as faculty to numerous conferences. She is an esteemed member of the British Society of Otology, Politzer Society, Meniere’s Society, ENT UK Society and Royal Society of Medicine. She was recently elected as the Treasurer for the Politzer Society, the international scientific society of Otology and Neuro-otology and the first female member of the Board since its inception. Ms Neumann has published extensively in peer reviewed journals. She was the principal investigator in an international multicentric randomised trial of trans-tympanic treatments for Meniere’s disease. Her current research interests are the treatment of severe and necrotising otitis externa in a multicentric national study, and the CAVA study in telemetry for dizziness. She is the principal investigator and mentors and supervises an associate investigator and research team.

James Loock

Otolaryngologist in private practice Professor Emeritus: Division of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Health Sciences | South Africa

Tygerberg Academic Hospital, University of Stellenbosch (US), SA

FRCS (England) ad eundem, 2010 Merit Award, South African Society of ORL/H&N Surgery, 2013

Ayatallah Sheikhany

Assistant Professor of Phoniatrics, ENT department, Faculty of Medicine | Egypt

Cairo University

Dr. Ayatallah Raouf Sheikhany is an Assistant Professor of Phoniatrics at Cairo university as well as the University of Armed Forces Faculty of Medicine. She serves as a Consultant at the Phoniatrics unit in Agouza Police Hospital, Cairo. Dr. Sheikhany also supervises the rehabilitation section of the cochlear implant program at the same hospital. She supervises basma program for rehabilitation of children who are hard of hearing and cochlear implanted children. In addition, she works as a Visiting Consultant at several hospitals including El Safa, Dar El Fouad, El Sherouk, and Cleopatra Group Hospitals. Dr. Sheikhany's expertise extends from neonates to elderly. She is also a member of the presidential committee of hearing screening and cochlear implant. With her extensive experience and knowledge, Dr. Sheikhany played a crucial role in establishing the national database of the Egyptian CI children and neonatal hearing screening. She has great passion for this field and shares her experience through many national and international conferences and scientific meetings

Amira Shennawy

Professor Audio vestibular medicine | Egypt

Cairo University

Amira Mohamed Maged El Shennawy , graduate of Kasr El Eini school of Medicine - Cairo University MB, BCH 1996 . Professor of Audio vestibular medicine at Kasr el Ainy hospitals, Cairo University since 2015 till present time .Former Head of the Cochlear Implant Unit , Cairo University 2019-2021. Reviewer at the Egyptian Journal of Ear, Nose, Throat and Allied Sciences. Member of the International Association of Physicians in audiology (IAPA) and the Egyptian Audio-vestibular Medicine Association (EAVMA).

Faisal Al Mubarak

Consultant, Physical Therapy | Saudi Arabia

Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia

Dr. Al Mubarak is a Consultant of Physical Therapy specialized in Vestibular Rehabilitation received his doctorate of science degree in Physical Therapy from Loma Linda University. Dr. Al Mubarak is a certified orthopedic manual therapist and also certified in the management of cervicogenic dizziness. Dr. Al Mubarak is interested in the following fields: 1. Dizziness 2. Balance Disorders 3. Fall Risk 4. Low back pain