Laryngology/Phonosurgery/Speech Evaluation

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

EDUCATION:
• 1983 MD, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine
• 1988 Internship, St Agnes Medical Center
• 1992 Residency, Ronald Reagan Univeristy of California, Los Angeles Medical Center
• 2000 PhD, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine
• Otolaryngology – American Board of Otolaryngology

MEMBERSHIPS:
• American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head Neck Surgery
• American Head & Neck Society
• European Salivary Gland Society
• European Laryngologic Society
• Société Française d’ORL et de Chirurgie de la Face et du Cou
• Federatio Medicum Helveticorum
• Swiss Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
• Swiss Neurosciences Society
• Geneva Neurosciences Society
• Geneva Medical Society

HONORS/AWARDS:
• 1992: Chief Resident Teaching Award - University of California, Los Angeles Division of Head and Neck Surgery
• 1999: Prize of the Swiss Society of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (86th Annual Meeting): Wang D, Perneger T, Dulguerov P: Vidéomimicographie – un nouveau test objectif de la fonction motrice faciale
• 2002: Award for exceptional scientific achievement – Swiss Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
• 2004: Honor Award of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
• 2008-9: President Swiss Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
• 2008: First prize for Clinical Research - Geneva University Hospital: Czarnetzki C, Elia N, Lysakowski C, Dumont L, Landis BN, Giger R, Dulguerov P, Desmeules J, Tramèr MR: Dexamethasone and risk of nausea and vomiting and postoperative bleeding after tonsillectomy in children: a randomized trial. JAMA 2008, 300:2621-30
• 2009: Abbott Anaesthesia Award 2009: Czarnetzki C, Elia N, Lysakowski C, Dumont L, Landis BN, Giger R, Dulguerov P, Desmeules J, Tramèr MR: Dexamethasone and risk of nausea and vomiting and postoperative bleeding after tonsillectomy in children: a randomized trial. JAMA 2008, 300:2621-30

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Phonosurgery, head & neck cancer, laryngeal cancer.