Professor Marcus Atlas Ear Science Institute Australia Department of Otolaryngology Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Nedlands, Western Australia

Marcus Atlas is the inaugural Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Western Australia. He is also the founding Director of the Ear Science Institute Australia (ESIA). Born in Perth, Professor Atlas graduated in Medicine at the University of Western Australia in 1982. He was awarded the Athelstan and Amy Saw Medical Scholarship to undertake fellowships in ear and skull base surgery at Cambridge, UK and Pittsburgh, USA, and returned to Australia to take up an appointment at St Vincents Hospital campus in Sydney.

Professor Atlas is the author of two internationally recognised books, eight book chapters and has authored more than seventy papers, published in refereed journals, and has produced a number of surgical DVD’s that have been released world-wide. In addition, Professor Atlas is the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of Otolaryngology, and has been appointed to the Editorial Board of other international journals.
 

Dr Brent Senior Associate Professor Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Chief, Rhinology, Allergy, and Sinus Surgery, University of North Carolina, USA

Brent Senior graduated from the Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois in 1986 and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1990. In 1996, he completed a fellowship in rhinology and sinus surgery with Dr. David Kennedy. He joined the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital as a Senior Staff Surgeon in 1996, leaving to join the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1999. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Chief of Rhinology, Allergy, and Sinus Surgery at the University of North Carolina.

Dr Senior serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Rhinology and Laryngoscope and he is formerly an Associate Editor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. He is currently as a Senior Examiner for the American Board of Otolaryngology.

He has received the Honour Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and has served as Director and/or instructor in sinus surgery and rhinology in over 50 national and international courses. He has published over 60 articles and book chapters and edited a book on sinus surgery. In 2005, he received the Humanitarian Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery.

Mr John Graham Director of the Royal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital Cochlear Implant Programme London, UK

John Graham qualified from the Middlesex Hospital London in 1966. He is Consultant Otolaryngologist at the Royal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital, Grays Inn Road, London. He is also Honorary Consultant at University College, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and St Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy.

Currently he is the Director of the Royal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital Cochlear Implant Programme. He was the Founding President of the British Association for Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology (BAPO) and was President of the European Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology from 2002 to 2006. He was President of the Section of Otology, Royal Society of Medicine 2003-2004. His contributions to Otology have been recognised with two significant awards; the W J Harrison Prize, Section of Otology, Royal Society of Medicine (contributions to Otology) 2003; and the Walter Jobson Horne Prize, British Medical Association (Science and Practice in Otology) 2005.

He has published many papers and chapters in textbooks on topics in Otology and Paediatric Otolaryngology including Neonatal Laryngotracheal Stenosis and Cochlear Implantation. He was the Founding Editor of Cochlear Implants International (International Peer-reviewed Journal on Cochlear Implant related subjects; official Journal of the British Cochlear Implant Group). He was Editor of the 6th Edition, Ballantynes Deafness and is currently editing Textbook of Paediatric ENT.

 

Mr Suren Krishnan Mr Suren Krishnan OAM FRACS Consultant Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgeon Royal Adelaide Hospital Adelaide, South Australia Suren Krishnan has an interest in Head and Neck surgery and specifically in partial laryngeal surgery and trans-oral laser resection of oral, oro-pharyngeal and laryngeal cancer.

He also has an established practice in functional endoscopic sinus surgery, cosmetic and functional rhinoplasty and general paediatric otolaryngology.

He is an examiner in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and President of the Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society.

He is a regular visitor to the many Pacific Islands, to which he has provided voluntary medical service in conjunction with the AUSAID funded Pacific Islands Project managed by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was awarded a Medal in The Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2006 for his contribution to Head and Neck Surgery and for his service to the people of the Pacific.
 

Community Trust of Otago Visiting Professor 2007 Professor Mark Haggard CBE Director MRC/ESS Team in Children’s Middle Ear Research MRC Multi-Centre Otitis Media Study Group Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK Mark Haggard was born in London in 1942 but grew up and was educated in rural Scotland, taking his first degree in Psychology at University of Edinburgh.

In the early 1980s, he pioneered the further professional development of audiological scientists by creating a system of in-service mentoring, examination and accreditation. He has been made CBE and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons.

From the early 1990s Mark’s interests moved to solution of the conceptual and practical problems of understanding and treating otitis media with effusion (OME - glue ear). This common condition consumes much time and frustration on the part of families and health professionals and is the commonest cause of surgical operations in children. Mark is currently completing the analysis and writing up of a decade’s research in causes, consequences and treatments of OME. He also engages, and intends increasingly to do so after retirement in 2008, in a variety of pro bono works that use his particular experience.