Cesare Piazza, MD, born in Cremoma in 1971, is Full Professor and Chief of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery of the University of Brescia, Italy since September 2020. He received his MD degree at the University of Pavia, Italy in 1996 and completed his Residency Programme in Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery in Brescia in 2001. He became Assistant Professor in 2007 and Associate Professor – Chief of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maxillofacial, and Thyroid Surgery of the National Cancer Institute, University of Milan, Italy in 2017. His clinical and research activities are focused on head and neck oncology, with special emphasis to laryngo-hypopharyngeal, tracheal, oral, thyroid, parotid, sarcoma, laser, and reconstructive microsurgery. Dr. Piazza is an active member of the European Laryngological Society since 2000, part of its Scientific Council since September 2010, and President Elect from 2018. He authored or co-authored 171 papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as 78 book chapters. He delivered 827 proffered papers and invited lectures in national and international Congresses and Courses. He serves as Editor of the Current Opinion in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery journal for the Head and Neck Oncology issue since 2010 and is member of its Editorial Board since 2013. He is member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Oncology since 2016, and Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica and Frontiers in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery since 2017.His surgical activity has been always mainly devoted to head and neck cancer treatment, with over 5500 surgical procedures performed in this field (of whom more than 1100 free flaps).

Cesare Piazza, MD, born in Cremoma in 1971, is Full Professor and Chief of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery of the University of Brescia, Italy since September 2020. He received his MD degree at the University of Pavia, Italy in 1996 and completed his Residency Programme in Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery in Brescia in 2001. He became Assistant Professor in 2007 and Associate Professor – Chief of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maxillofacial, and Thyroid Surgery of the National Cancer Institute, University of Milan, Italy in 2017. His clinical and research activities are focused on head and neck oncology, with special emphasis to laryngo-hypopharyngeal, tracheal, oral, thyroid, parotid, sarcoma, laser, and reconstructive microsurgery. Dr. Piazza is an active member of the European Laryngological Society since 2000, part of its Scientific Council since September 2010, and President Elect from 2018. He authored or co-authored 171 papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as 78 book chapters. He delivered 827 proffered papers and invited lectures in national and international Congresses and Courses. He serves as Editor of the Current Opinion in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery journal for the Head and Neck Oncology issue since 2010 and is member of its Editorial Board since 2013. He is member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Oncology since 2016, and Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica and Frontiers in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery since 2017.His surgical activity has been always mainly devoted to head and neck cancer treatment, with over 5500 surgical procedures performed in this field (of whom more than 1100 free flaps).

JEAN ANDERSON ELOY, MD, FARS, Vice Chair and Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Professor of Neurological Surgery, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Director, Rhinology and Sinus Surgery, Director, Otolaryngology Research, Co-Director, Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery Program, Chair and Chief of Service, Saint Barnabas Medical Center . Dr. Eloy is currently Professor and Vice Chair of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He serves as the Director of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery, Director of Otolaryngology Research, and Co-Director of the Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery Program. Dr. Eloy also has joint appointments as Professor of Neurological Surgery and Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is currently the Co-President of the New Jersey Academy of Otolaryngology/New Jersey Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery, and the Chair and Chief of Service of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. Dr. Eloy’s contributions to the fields of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Neurological Surgery include over 450 journal articles, over 425 peer-reviewed articles, 5 books, and 44 book chapters in the subfield of Rhinology, Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgery, over 510 scientific presentations at regional, national, and international otolaryngologic and neurological surgery meetings, as well as over 350 invited lectures and oral presentations.

Bostjan Lanisnik, MD, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Otolaryngology. Currently serving as the Head of the Department of Otolaryngology at University Medical Center Maribor, Slovenia. I’m a member of the Americna Head and Neck Society, European Rhinological Society, British Rhinologic Society and European Skull Base Society. Current fields of interest are surgical management of CRS and endoscopic skull base surgery. Regularly collaborates with Center for Cranial Base Surgery University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he was educated in endoscopic skull base surgery.

Carl H. Snyderman, MD, MBA, is Professor of Otolaryngology and Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Otolaryngology Director of the Center for Cranial Base Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).Dr. Snyderman is also Vice Chair for Quality and Safety of the Department of Otolaryngology.He is recognized internationally as a pioneer and leader in the development of the endoscopic endonasal approach, a minimally invasive surgical approach to the cranial base.

Prof. Dr. IMRE GERLINGER
Clinical work: Outpatient work and surgical activity,
Teaching: University of Pécs
- teaching of otorhinolaryngology on hungarian language since 1991, on english language since 2001
- supervisor of medical students (state examinations, scieentific work of medical students) since 1994
- presentations and lectures for students on hungarian language since 2003,
- presentations and lectures for students in english language since 2003
- pre-rewiever of local PhD thesises since 2004
 - PhD joint-consultant since 2008
University of Liverpool
- lectures and hans-on practices on english language (1995-1997)
University of Nottingham
- lectures and hands-on practices on english language (2001-2003)...
Professional Curriculum Vitae

Postgraduate education: Master's thesis: "The role of ultrasound-guided aspiration biopsy of subclinical regional metastases of head and neck carcinoma": 2000. PhD: obtaining the title of Doctor of Science at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ljubljana (2013), thesis: "The predictive value of cysteine proteases and their inhibitors in patients with operable head and neck cancer." Affiliations: Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana since 1987.Assistant professor for the subject »Otorhinolaryngology« at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Medicine. Narrower focus within otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery with special focus on the surgery of salivary glands, laryngology and reconstruction. Performing sialendoscopy since 2011 (more than 400 operations). Participating in the introduction of new surgical methods in the Slovenian space, for example endoscopic laryngeal cancer surgery, diagnostic and interventional sialendoscopy, endoscopic stapler diverticulotomy of Zenker’s pouch, coblation removal of lingual tonsils, partial cricotracheal resection as a part of the surgery of laryngotracheal strictures Position: President of the Slovenian otorhinolaryngologic society since 2016. Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana since 2018.

Dr. Christian Quitter works in full-time academic practice as deputy head of department at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Steve Biko Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria Medical School from 2015. His special interest since 2009 has been rhinology and endoscopic base of skull surgery. Dr. Quitter is teaching sinus surgery at local and international courses, lecturing at congresses in South Africa and abroad and is a member of the South African ENT Society, the South African Allergic Rhinitis Working Group as well as the American Rhinologic Society. He is director of the University of Pretoria Sinus Surgery Course as well as the Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery Course and co-presented the first Sub-Saharan Africa Endoscopic Sinus Surgery in 2016. Research interests include inflammatory mediators in chronic rhinitis and nasal polyps, epidemiology of sinusitis, Vitamin D and endoscopic base of skull surgery.