Professor
Heinz Stammberger, M.D., Hon. FRCS (Ed.), Hon. FRCS (Engl.), Hon. FACS,
is Emeritus Professor and Head of the Department of General ORL,
H&NS of the Medical University at Graz/Austria. It was here where in
the late 1960s and 70s his teacher, Prof. Walter Messerklinger, started
what would become a revolution in diagnosis and treatment of nasal and
sinuses diseases: Rigid endoscopy, FESS being the best known off-spring
of this development. Prof. Stammberger today, is considered one of the
world’s leading experts in the field of endoscopic sinus and skull base
surgery. He has helped through numerous publications, books as well as
lectures and teaching courses on all continents, to spread the knowledge
and expertise and push the surgical frontiers.In the late 1990s, he and
his ENT-team have started close co-operation with their neurosurgical
partners, establishing the "Interdisciplinary Skull Base Unit“ of the
Medical University Graz. Their transnasal concept of “Endoscopic
Rhino-NeuroSurgery” has made the Graz Skull Base Group a leader in the
field and a national and international excellence and referral centre.
More
recently, he joined the Dubai-based TSESI Group for non-profit teaching
and hands-on training of talented, yet financially under-privileged,
young rhinologists and researchers from all over the globe, during
several multi-day courses per year.
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