Inner Ear Malformations

Dr Levent Sennaroglu did his medical training and otolaryngology residency in Hacettepe University Medical Faculty in Ankara. In 1996 he became Associate Professor, and was appointed chairman of the Otolaryngology department for the period 2006-2011. Under his management, the Audiology Undergraduate Program was set up for the first time. For the last 25 years, Prof. Sennaroglu activity has been devoted to otology and neurotology, and his main academic interest is focused on inner ear malformations: in 2002 he coauthored a new classification of IEM, published in the same year and then updated in 2010 and 2013, that was adopted in many countries and is still used as a reference in the field. In Hacettepe Implant Group he performed more than 2900 cochlear implantations, and 160 brainstem implantations. He developed a new electrode designed to overcome the problem of cerebrospinal fluid leakage. Author of several papers in the field, Prof. Sennaroglu was the president of the Otology and Neurotology Society in Turkey between 2008 and 2010, and he is a fellow member of the American Neurotology Society, and of other European ENT societies.