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Cem Meco, MD

Professor
Ankara University Medical School / Salzburg Paracelsus Medical University
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Cem Meco MD, FEBORL-HNS is a Professor of ORL-HNS at Ankara University, Turkey and Salzburg Paracelsus Medical University, Austria. He is the President of the European Board Examination in ORL-HNS, Past President of the Confederation of European ORL-HNS and Chair-elect of the International Advisory Board of the AAOHNSF. Furthermore, he functions at different positions among other international and national societies like Advisory Boards of UEMS-ORL Section, European Rhinologic Society, and Executive Boards of European and Turkish Skull Base Societies, besides being Scientific Chair of Rhinology/ Skull Base Section at 2026 Istanbul IFOS World Congress.

After receiving his medical degree from Ankara University, Turkey, he did his residency in Salzburg, Austria under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Klaus Albegger where he further continued to work for several years and had advanced training on Otology-Neurotology, Cochlear Implantation, Skull Base Surgery, as well as Rhinology and Advanced Sinus Surgery. He is a board certified “Fellow” in Europe.

While continuing to be a faculty member in Salzburg to date, starting in 2004, he also became a faculty member at Ankara University, where he established the cochlear implant program, enhanced the skull base team with endoscopic techniques. From 2015 to 2018, served as the Chair until he became the President of the Confederation.

He is the author or co-author of many presented or published papers and book chapters, as well as a worldwide invited faculty at various significant meetings and dissection courses, giving numerous presentations and lectures throughout his career.

Among many other society memberships, he is an Honorary Member of the Austrian and Hungarian; Member of the Turkish, German (Corresponding), Balkan and Danube (Honorary) ORL-HNS Societies; the AAOHNSF; the European, Turkish, American and Bulgarian (Honorary) Rhinologic Societies, European Academy of Otology-Neurotology and the European, German and Turkish Skull Base Societies, as well as CORLAS.

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