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SENSORY ORGANS

MR ROBERT VINCENT MD, FRCS

STAPES SURGERY: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MIDDLE EAR

AUTHOR
CAROLINA ALMEIDA

Dr Robert Vincent, a renowned French ogy-Head and Neck Surgery, the Europe- tional services in the scientific program
otolaryngologist, was born on the 28th an Academy of Otology & Neuro-Otology, continuing education courses and instruc-
October 1960, in the town of Châteaubri- the Politzer Society, the Mediterranean tional courses of this Society. Dr Vincent is
ant, France, to Julien and Henriette Vin- Society of Otology, the Prosper Meniere also the recipient Gordon Smyth Lecturer,
cent. He studied medicine at Montpellier Society and the Otosclerosis Study Group. Royal Society Medicine and British Associ-
University, France, and completed his in- He was an instructor at the American ation Head and Neck Surgeons, 2002.
ternship and residency training program Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and With that being said, we hope that you
on ear, nose and throat surgery at the Uni- Neck Surgery for many years. On October are just as excited as we are to welcome
versity Hospital in Nancy, France, in 1990. 4th 2009, he has been awarded by the Dr Robert Vincent in the “Sensory Organs”
On January 1991, the doctor joined the Board of Directors of the American Acad- panel at the 12.0 iMed Conference!
Otology group of the Jean Causse Ear Clin- emy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck
ic in Colombiers, France as an otologist sur- Surgery a certificate of honour for excep-
geon and since then he developed a spe-
cial interest in stapes surgery and ossicular
reconstruction of the middle ear, which
has led to his design of several middle ear
prosthesis and his publishing of new tech-
niques in ossicular reconstruction. He has
performed more than 7300 operations for
otosclerosis, more than 4000 operations
for ossicular reconstruction and more
than 260 operations for congenital mal-
formation of the ossicular chain.
Since the age of 21, he runs an annu-
al advanced otology course in June at
the Jean Causse Ear Clinic. Since 2005,
he has been the General Secretary and
co-founder of the Live International Oto-
laryngology Network which is promoting
a free HD videoconferencing advanced
e-learning program on middle ear sur-
gery. He is on the editorial board of sever-
al scientific journals such as the Otology
& Neurotology Journal, the Journal of the
Mediterranean Society of Otology and
additionally serves as a reviewer for many
professional publications.
Dr Vincent became an Honorary Fel-
low of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ed-
inburgh in September 2005 and Honorary
Member of the Indian Society of Otology
in November 2006. He is also a member of
several ear, nose and throat societies such
as the American Academy of Otolaryngol-

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