Dr. Adel Adel Maksoud Nassar
A Professor of Audiovestibular Medicine, and Head of Audiology Unit, Otolaryngology Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt since 2005. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University in 1984 and received his Master (1990) and Doctorate (1995) Degrees of Audiovestibular Medicine from the same University. He has training and participates in scientific research in Miami Ear institute, Miami University, Florida, USA for 7 months (Jan. 1994 to Jul. 1994).
Currently, he is A member of the International Association of Physicians in Audiology (IAPA), the Egyptian Audio-Vestibular Medicine Association (EAVMA), the Egyptian Society of Oto-rhino-laryngology and a Fellowship of Otolaryngology Ear Institute, University of Miami, USA. He is a reviewer in the Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, Egyptian Journal of Ear, Nose, Throat and Allied Sciences (EJENTAS) and Ain Shams Medical Journal. He is a Director of Technical Affairs of Ain Shams University Hospitals and a former Director of Falah Self Learning Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University.
He is a senior staff member in Cochlear Implant, Balance and Hearing Aid Clinics of Ain Shams University Hospitals and started working, training, research and teaching in the field of cochlear implantation since 1995 and till now in Ain Shams University Hospitals and other hospitals and centers in Egypt. He contributed to all the Conferences, Workshops and Seminars organized by the Audiology Unit as a speaker or as a senior member of the Organizing or Scientific Committee. He was the general Secretary of the 4th Vestibular Seminar and Workshop organized by the Audiology Unit, Otolaryngology Department, Ain Shams University which was held in Cairo in December 2013.
He has supervised and examined several MSc and MD theses from different Medical Schools in Egypt and shares in teaching courses and workshop for under and post- gradual medical students. He has many publications in cochlear implantation, vestibular assessment, tinnitus, evoked potentials, otoacoustic emissions, pediatric hearing and tactile aids fitting, neonatal hearing screening, central auditory processing disorders, genetics, animal studies and other aspects in the field of Audiovestibular Medicine.