Invited Speakers

Eugene N. Myers, M.D. Chair of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Deputy Director of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. He is a surgeon-scientist who has pioneered novel liquid biopsy approaches for head and neck cancer.

Head of the Department of Otolaryngology at Hannover Medical School, Germany.

His work and research focusses on auditory implants, biomaterials for medical implants, audiology and neurotology.

​Laryngologist and Airway Surgeon at Johns Hopkins.

Prof. Hillel is transforming care in idiopathic subglottic stenosis (iSGS) by performing an endoscopic cricotracheal resection to cure patients with the disease. He is currently leading a multi-institutional randomized clinical trial investigating the efficacy of adjuvant serial intralesional steroid injections in iSGS patients.