Mario Fernández Fernández

Mario Fernandez Fernandez 03a 

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Santiago de Compostela 1986-1992.
Doctor of Medicine, University of A Coruña 2000. Extraordinary Doctorate Award 2001.
Specialist in Otorhinolaryngology, "Juan Canalejo" University Hospital, A Coruña, 2000.
Otorhinolaryngology Consultant, "Juan Canalejo" University Hospital, A Coruña, 2000-2008.
Head of the Otorhinolaryngology Department, Henares University Hospital, Coslada, Madrid, 2008-2017.
Head of the Head and Neck Surgery Section, "Gregorio Marañón" General University Hospital,
2017-present. Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Complutense University of Madrid,
2018-present. Bronze Medal from the Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.
Vice Secretary-General of the Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,
2012-2015. Secretary-General of the Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2015-2018.

Jeppe Friborg

Jeppe Friborg

Rigshospitalet, Department of Oncology

Head-neck cancer with a focus on treatment outcome, prognostic factors and viral carcinogenesis. Cancer epidemiology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prav Praveen

Prav Praveen

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | uhb · Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Prav completed dentistry at Karnatak University, India, and medicine at the University of Birmingham. He completed the interface head and neck surgical oncology fellowship at Aintree University Hospitals, Liverpool. His interests include reconstructive microvascular surgery.

 

 

 

Jean-Pascal Machiels

 Jean Pascal Machiels

 

Jean-Pascal Machiels MD, PhD.
Head of Institut Roi Albert II Oncology & Hematology Cancer Center
Head of Department of adult and pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Brussels)

Head of department of medical oncology and director of the oncology center, Institut Roi Albert II, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, UCLouvain, Brussels Belgium.
Chairman of the EORTC head and neck group.

Training:  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore USA (Fellow in Medical Oncology 1998-2000) and Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels, Belgium (MD: 1993; PhD: 2001).
Main interests: Head and Neck cancer, translational research, and early clinical trials (phase 1).

Publications: more than two hundred papers reporting on clinical trials and translational research

Editor: Section Editor (Head and neck cancer), European Journal of Cancer

 

  1. van Herpen C, Vander Poorten V, Skalova A, Terhaard C, Maroldi R, van Engen A, Baujat B, Locati LD, Jensen AD, Smeele L, Hardillo J, Martineau VC, Trama A, Kinloch E, Even C, Machiels JP; ESMO Guidelines Committee. Electronic address:  Salivary gland cancer: ESMO-European Reference Network on Rare Adult Solid Cancers (EURACAN) Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. ESMO Open. 2022 Dec;7(6):100602.
  2. Bossi P, Chan AT, Licitra L, Trama A, Orlandi E, Hui EP, Halámková J, Mattheis S, Baujat B, Hardillo J, Smeele L, van Herpen C, Castro A, Machiels JP; ESMO Guidelines Committee. ; EURACAN. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma: ESMO-EURACAN Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up†. Ann Oncol. 2021 Apr;32(4):452-465.
  3. Machiels JP, René Leemans C, Golusinski W, Grau C, Licitra L, Gregoire V; EHNS Executive Board. ; ESMO Guidelines Committee. Electronic address: ESTRO Executive Board.  i Squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, larynx, oropharynx, and hypopharynx: EHNS-ESMO-ESTRO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. Ann Oncol. 2020 Nov;31(11):1462-1475.
  4. Galot R, Machiels JH. Current applications and challenges of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN). Cancer Treat Rev. 2020 Apr;85:101992.
  5. Galot R, Le Tourneau C, Guigay J, Licitra L, Tinhofer I, Kong A, Caballero C, Fortpied C, Bogaerts J, Govaerts AS, Staelens D, Raveloarivahy T, Rodegher L, Laes JF, Saada-Bouzid E, Machiels JP. Personalized biomarker-based treatment strategy for patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: EORTC position and approach. Ann Oncol. 2018 Dec 1;29(12):2313-2327.

 

 

Christian Simon


Simon

 

Professor and Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, CHUV
University of Lausanne.

Prof Simon Professor and Chairman (Chef de service) of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, at the University Medical Center Vaud (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland since 2012. From 2018 to 2020 he was the chair of EORTC-HNCG. Alongside clinical fellowships at The University of Texas M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and University of Minnesota (USA) he trained at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He worked as a Consultant Surgeon (Oberarzt), the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany before becoming the Vice-Chair in 2009. 

 

Governing activities:

  • 3/2017-3/2021 Chairman of the EORTC-Head and Neck Cancer Group (HNCG)
  • 5/2019-5/2022 Vice-chairman SAKK Head and Neck Group
  • 3/2023 - Secretary of the EORTC-Head and Neck Cancer Group (HNCG)
  • 3/2023 - Treasurer of the European Head and Neck Society (EHNS)

Organization of conferences:

  • 2015/2017 EHNS workshop of transoral robotic surgery (TORS), Lausanne
  • 2022/2023 EHNS workshop on “AI meets Head and Neck Oncology, Lausanne

Succo Giovanni

 Giovanni Succo 01

 

Otorhinolaryngologist and Surgical Oncologist.
Full Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Chair Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Unit - San Giovanni Bosco Hospital - Turin.
President of European Head and Neck Society
Author of 124 peer-reviewed papers, mainly focused on partial laryngectomies and, the last ones, on mini-invasive 3D Robotic-like surgery.

 

Some recent publications

  • Crosetti E, Arrigoni G, Fantini M, Fondello G, Moniaci D, Carnino R, Succo G.
    Lipofilling after total parotidectomy: a useful option to prevent functional and aesthetic sequelae.
    Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital. 2022 Dec;42(6):516-524. doi: 10.14639/0392-100X-N2231. PMID: 36654517; PMCID: PMC9853102.
  • Fantini M, Crosetti E, Pizzorni N, Sprio AE, Bertolin A, Rizzotto G, Schindler A, Succo G.
    Voice and communication after open partial horizontal laryngectomies: A cross-sectional outcome study.
    Head Neck. 2022 Oct;44(10):2248-2256. doi: 10.1002/hed.27132. Epub 2022 Jul 6. PMID: 35792420.
  • Crosetti E, Succo G, Battiston B, D'Addabbo F, Tascone M, Maldi E, BertottoI, Berrone M.
    Surgical Margins After Computer-Assisted Mandibular Reconstruction: A Retrospective Study.
    Front Oral Health. 2022 Jan 13;2:806477. doi: 10.3389/froh.2021.806477. PMID: 35098211; PMCID: PMC8793010.
  • Crosetti E, Arrigoni G, Caracciolo A, Tascone M, Manca A, Succo G.
    VITOM-3D-assisted retroauricular neck surgery (RANS-3D): preliminary experience at Candiolo Cancer Institute.
    Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital. 2021 Oct;41(5):419-431. doi: 10.14639/0392-100X-N1293. PMID: 34734577; PMCID:PMC8569660.
  • Fantini M, Crosetti E, Affaniti R, Sprio AE, Bertotto I, Succo G.
    Preoperative prognostic factors for functional and clinical outcomes after open partial horizontal laryngectomies.
    Head Neck. 2021 Nov;43(11):3459-3467. doi: 10.1002/hed.26845. Epub 2021 Aug 18. PMID: 34405480.
  • Crosetti E, Arrigoni G, Sprio AE, Succo G.
    "Fistula Zero" Project After Total Laryngectomy: The Candiolo Cancer Institute Experience.
    Front Oncol. 2021 Jun 22;11:690703. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.690703. PMID: 34239804; PMCID: PMC8258249.

 Scientific Activity

  • Ordinary Member of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology since 1986
  • Ordinary Member of the Italian Society of Surgical Oncology since 1997
  • Scientific secretary and speaker at the Workshop " Perspectives on secondary prevention of laryngeal cancer" (Turin, 1991)
  • Lecturer at II World Congress on Laryngeal Cancer ( Sydney 1994). Speaker at the II Congress of the European Laryngological Society (Rome 1998)
  • Scientific secretary of the 55th Congress of Alta Italia ENT Society ( Turin, 1999)
  • Director of the theoretical-practical AOOI Course on tracheotomies since 2003
  • Co-Director of the Practical Course on Head and Neck Surgery and Laser Microsurgery - Hospital of Vittorio Veneto
  • Director of the AOOI Master on diagnostic endoscopy and endoscopic surgery of the upper aero–digestive tract
  • Secretary of the President of the Italian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery in the years 2003-2004
  • Scientific Secretary of the 91st National Congress of the Italian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery - Turin 2004
  • Scientific Secretary of the 95th National Congress of the Italian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery - Torino 2008
  • Chairman of the Scientific Committee for Training and Updating AOOI ( Co.F.A. ) period 2006-2010
  • Chairman of the 32nd National Congress of Italian Association Otolaryngologists (AOOI)
  • Member of the Academy of Medicine of Turin
  • General Secretary of the Italian Society of Head and Neck Oncology 2010 - 2014
  • President of the Italian Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology 2011 – 2013
  • Current General Secretary of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology /Head and Neck Surgery 2017
  • Current Treasurer of European Head and Neck Society