Otorhinolaryngology · Neurosurgery · Florence

Prof. Franco Trabalzini

Director of Otorhinolaryngology
Meyer Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Florence
Associate Professor
University of Florence

35 years of experience and more than 13,000 surgical procedures

Portrait of Prof. Franco Trabalzini

My principal mission is to use surgery to give back the sound of voices, and of the world around us, to those who cannot hear it.

Appointments, Meyer Children’s Hospital+39 055 566 2947Where I see patientsFlorenceRomeSiena

Ear surgery

Disorders of the ear, the facial nerve and balance. Hearing surgery, cochlear implants and lateral skull base surgery.

  • Chronic otitis
  • Cholesteatoma
  • Otosclerosis
  • Cochlear implants
  • Vertigo

Paediatric ENT

Children are not “small adults”. Ear infections, breathing and sleep, hearing and speech, with particular attention to the early diagnosis of childhood deafness.

  • The consultation
  • Ear infections
  • Adenoids and tonsils
  • Hearing and speech
  • Surgery

About

I performed my first operations in October 1991 in Venice, working alongside Prof. Gregorio Babighian.

A lifelong music lover, I have devoted my professional life to giving people who have never heard them the sound of voices and of the world around them.

In April 2025 I had the great honour of receiving the Gold Medal for Merit in Public Health from the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, for teaching surgical techniques for childhood deafness and cochlear implantation in many countries in Europe and beyond, including India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Palestine and Israel.

Professional background
Prof. Trabalzini receiving the Gold Medal for Merit in Public Health at the Quirinale Palace, beside President Sergio Mattarella
Quirinale Palace, Rome, April 2025

Where I see patients

All contact details

Florence

Meyer Children’s Hospital IRCCS

Viale Gaetano Pieraccini 24, 50139 Florence, Italy

Appointments
+39 055 566 2947
Secretary’s office
+39 055 566 2672Monday to Saturday, 10 am–12 noon

Siena

Siena Hospital

Telephone
+39 0577 585234Monday to Friday, 9 am–8 pm · Saturday, 8 am–2 pm