Medizinische Fakultät

Universitätskliniken Inselspital

Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Head and Neck Surgery

Inselspital Bern

The Department comprises several highly specialized units. It focuses on diagnosing and treating diseases in its field and is intensively involved in research projects that allow these diseases to be better understood and treated. Experts in audiology, medicine, physics, and engineering conduct practice-oriented research.

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Profile

  • Teaching students of medicine and dentistry in ENT
  • Teaching and supervising graduate students at the ARTORG Center (Hearing Research Lab) and Sitem-Insel AG
  • Training of young ENT surgeons on a daily basis and in internal courses
  • Courses in audiology, biomedical acoustics, digital signal processing and phoniatrics for speech therapists
  • Research collaboration with the Hearing Research Laboratory at the ARTORG Center to develop and integrate new technologies for the treatment of hearing loss
  • Research projects in ENT oncology and the treatment of vestibular loss

External Partners

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland; ORL University Hospital Modena, Italy; Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, University of Nottingham, UK; Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neurology, USA; Harvard Medical School, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, USA

Grants

  • SNF Grant, The Human Auditory System in Motion (320030_192660 / 1)
  • SNF Grant, DETECT Study (320030_173081)
  • SNF Grant, Physiological Role of Torsion in the Cochlea (205321_200850)
  • Innosuisse Grant, Personalized Tinnitus Relief in Hearing Aids (PASTOR)
  • Förderung der Stiftung für naturwissenschaftliche und technische Forschung