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Prof. Dr. Stefan K. Plontke
Professor and Chairman
Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg


Stefan K. Plontke studied Medicine at the Humboldt-University (Charitè) in Berlin (Germany) and Aberdeen (UK) with clinical electives at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in Philadelphia (USA). He trained as an otolaryngologist at the University of Tübingen (Germany). For his doctoral thesis, he worked in the auditory research lab of James C. Saunders, Ph.D., at University of Pennsylvania on the regeneration of hearing after noise-induced hearing loss. Since 2001, he regularly worked with Alec N. Salt, Ph.D., at Washington University in St. Louis (USA) focusing on pharmacokinetic principles of and drug delivery to the inner ear. He received several research prizes from various scientific national and international societies and teaching prizes from the Universities of Tübingen and Halle.
Prof. Plontke was President (2020/2021) of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. He is current member of the Presidential Council of the European Confederation of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (CEORL-HNS) and conference president of the CEORL-HNS congress 2028 in Berlin, Germany. He is member of the Collegium ORLAS, member of the board of directors of the Prosper Menière Society, member of several editorial boards and editor in chief of the Journal 'HNO' (SpringerNature).
His clinical research interests focus on otology, including cochlear implants and implantable electronic hearing systems, on lateral skull base surgery, audiology, middle and inner ear surgery, local drug delivery to the ear and outcome parameters for clinical trials.