Tagi: cochlear implantation
- 21-1-2015
Cochlear implant surgical workshop – 19th Window Approach Workshop in Kajetany
The World Hearing Center hosted the 19th WAW Window Approach Workshop on 12-14 January 2015. There were 43 participants of the WAW Conference, and 13 of them took part in the practical-otosurgical training. They were the representatives of the largest teaching hospital in Iraq – Baghdad Medical City at the Medical University in Baghdad. Other participants were doctors from Tajikistan and …
- 8-1-2015
19th Anniversary of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing
The Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing was established on 9th January, 1996. On the Institute’s 19th anniversary we present the history of this place and its people. Today, in Kajetany near Warsaw, the World Hearing Center of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing runs its activity. First in Poland cochlear implant surgery performed in 1992 by Prof. Henryk Skarżyński …
- 29-12-2014
Special Winter Edition of LION Videoconference dedicated to cochlear implantation surgical techniques
On Wednesday, December 10, took place special winter edition of the popular surgical training videoconference LION – Life International Otology Network entitled „Cochlear Implant State of the Art”. Program included 9 demonstration surgeries of cochlear implantation broadcasted from the leading European auditory implant centers: Kajetany, Hannover, London, Florence, Utrecht and Poznan. In addition to surgeries there were lectures …
- 12-12-2014
Award in medicine – equivalent of the Nobel Prize
December 4, 2014 become a special day for the laureates of Prix Galien. This international completion has a 44-year tradition. The aim is to honor the most innovative and breakthrough achievements in the pharmaceutical field, medicine, and healthcare. This year the Gold Medal – Galien International Award went to the National Network of Teleaudiology, whose initiator is Prof. Henryk Skarzynski. The …
- 3-12-2014
Surgical training workshop on cochlear implants the 18th Window Approach Workshop – 4th Surgical Foundation Course
On 24 and 25 November, 2014, in the World Hearing Center, took place the 18th surgical training workshop WAW – Window Approach Workshop, which was also the 4th Surgical Foundation Course organized in Kajetany. International group of participants included ear surgeons from France, Germany, Portugal, Denmark, Czech Republic, Romania, Kenya, Latvia, Turkey, Kuwait, Democratic Republic of the Congo …
- 16-11-2014
8th International Symposium on Objective Measures in Auditory Implants
It is a conference dedicated to studies on objective tests performed during the diagnostics of the auditory pathway in cochlear implant users. It is organized every 2 years. This year its organizers were Prof. Karen Gordon and Prof. Blake Papsin from the SickKids Hospital. SickKids Hospital is one of the worlds’ best known pediatric clinics maintaining a program of treatment of hearing …
- 5-11-2014
Medal of the Senate of Poland for Professor Henryk Skarżyński
‘The good of the Republic of Poland is the highest law’ – Professor Henryk Skarżyński received the Medal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland from Mr. Bogdan Borusewicz, Marshal of the Senate. Presenting the Medal, Marshal Borusewicz said that this award is the expression of the highest appreciation of the good that Prof. Skarżyński …
- 16-10-2014
Professor Henryk Skarżyński awarded an honorary degree of honoris causa of the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin
On 29th September 2014, at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin took place important ceremony. The Senate of the University decided to award an Honorary Doctorate of the Maria Curie Skłodowska University to Professor Henryk Skarżyński. As the resolution of the Senate states, the title was awarded for: “An outstanding achievements in the fields of otorhinolaryngology, audiology and phoniatrics, great service …
- 15-10-2014
The Tree of Freedom in the Park of 10 Thousand Steps in Kajetany
Prof. Henryk Skarżyński, laureate of the “People of freedom” contest organized by the ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ and the TVN planted an oak tree – a symbol of Poland’s 25 years of freedom at the World Hearing Centre. At this ceremony he was accompanied by Ms. Teresa Sukniewicz – Kleiber, world record-holder in hurdles and secondary school students – cochlear implant users, implanted during …
- 3-9-2014
First in Poland implantation of the Cochlear™ MET® middle ear implant system
One of the foundations of the modern society is the unprecedented progress in human relations, availability and exchange of information, development of information technologies and tools. An integral part of this development is the utilization of our sense of hearing, voice, speech and language communication. While at the beginning of 20th century individual’s functioning and position in the …
- 1-9-2014
17th WAW – Window Approach Workshop in the World Hearing Center in Kajetany
Seventeenth surgical training workshop WAW – Window Approach Workshop took place in Kajetany on 28-29 August 2014. Traditionally multinational group of 28 participants comprised ENT surgeons from Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Austria, Italy, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kirgizstan, Ukraine and Cameroon. Window Approach Workshops have been organized in Kajetany since 2007. They are dedicated to improving qualifications of surgeons specialized in hearing implants …
- 16-7-2014
25 years of free Poland – the Man and the Center of Freedom
On 16th July 1992, Prof Henryk Skarżyński performed, for the first time in Poland, a cochlear implantation in a deaf person. Since then, the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing provided its patients with more than 4 thousand auditory implants. Prof. Skarżyński, the man who gave the deaf a chance to return to the world of sounds, and the world famous otosurgeon, has been …
- 10-7-2014
I can hear, I am free!
On the 20th of June 2014 a press breakfast „The Man and the Center of Freedom – I can hear, I am free” took place in the Foksal Press Center. It was aimed to disseminate knowledge and recall achievements of the team of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing within polish medicine in the previous 25 years. Prof. Henryk Skarzynski who has …
- 23-6-2014
13th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies
The biggest conference on auditory implants has a long tradition – the meeting of specialists in this discipline takes place every two years since 1987. The principal organizer of the 13th conference was Prof. Joachim Müller, the head of the implant program at the University of Wurzburg, and then at the University of Munich. Among prominent guests of this year’s meeting …
- 7-6-2014
Professor Henryk Skarzynski – the winner of the “Science means freedom” plebiscite
The most important scientific achievement in the last 25 years is the implant surgery in partially-deaf people performed by the team of professor Henryk Skarzynski – this is the opinion of internauts who voted in the “Science means freedom” plebiscite, organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. – The achievements of the last 25 years include scientific works. …
- 30-5-2014
XXXII World Congress of Audiology in Brisbane
XXXII World Congress of Audiology organized every two years by the International Society of Audiology (ISA) is one of the biggest in the world meetings focusing on scientific debates, exchange of knowledge and experience in the area of audiology. The Congress brings together specialists in audiology and related disciplines such as ENT doctors, speech therapists, hearing rehabilitation specialists, special education specialists, …
- 23-5-2014
LION: the 9th Global Otology – Neurotology Live Surgical Broadcast in the World Hearing Center in Kajetany
On May 20th 2014, the ninth annual world-wide visioconference LION Global Otology – Neurotology Live Surgical Broadcast took place, with life presentations of the newest oto- and neurotological surgical techniques by the best surgeons from the leading centers located all over the world. The LION project, initiated in 2006, is aimed to use the modern teleconferencing technology solutions to improve …
- 20-5-2014
Otology Jubilee: 150 Years of “Archive fur Ohrenheilunde”
The conference in Halle, Germany, was organized to celebrate 150th anniversary of the magazine “Archive fur Ohrenheilunde”, which was later renamed as “European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology” and is still published under this name. Therefore, apart from scientific sessions devoted to general sciences, diagnostics, surgery and implantology, the program also contained a session on the history of the magazine. There was time …