Franco Trabalzini

Short CV

Prof. Franco Trabalzini

Otorhinolaryngologist and neurosurgeon. Director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Meyer Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Florence, and Associate Professor at the University of Florence. His clinical work focuses on otosurgery, skull base surgery, cochlear implants and paediatric ENT.

Career

  • 1988MD cum laude, University of Siena
  • 1991Board certification in Otorhinolaryngology and Cervico-Facial Pathology, University of Siena
  • 1991Otosurgery at Venice Civil Hospital with Prof. Gregorio Babighian
  • 2000Co-founded, with Prof. Babighian, the first Otosurgery Unit in Italy, at Padua Hospital
  • 2009Board certification in Neurosurgery, University of Padua
  • 2010Director, Otology and Skull Base Surgery Unit, Siena Hospital
  • 2016Director, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Meyer Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Florence
  • 2022Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Florence

Scientific societies

  • European Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (ESPO): Council Member 2018–2025, President-elect from 2025
  • European Academy of Otology and Neuro-Otology (EAONO): founding member; General Secretary 2008–2012; President 2012–2014
  • Coordinator of the EAONO working groups on European guidelines for cholesteatoma and chronic otitis, cochlear implants, vertigo and acoustic neuroma
  • Board Member, Mediterranean Society of Otology and Audiology; Global Otology Research Forum (GLORF)
  • Founding member, Live International Otolaryngology Network (L.I.O.N.)
  • Life / Honorary Member, Indian Society of Otology

Teaching and training

  • Visiting Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Toronto (2014, 2016)
  • Tutor, University of Zurich: 12 Microsurgery of the Skull Base courses and 3 Otology and Temporal Bone Surgery courses (2000–2015)
  • Tutor, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille: 6 Temporal Bone and Skull Base courses
  • Training periods in Marseille, Zurich, Stockholm (Karolinska Institute), Los Angeles (House Ear Institute), Copenhagen (Gentofte Hospital) and Iowa City (University of Iowa)

Honours

  • Gold Medal for Merit in Public Health, awarded by the President of the Italian Republic (2025), for teaching cochlear implant and paediatric hearing-loss surgery in many European and non-European countries
  • Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (2015)

Publications

Author or co-author of 87 scientific publications (1996–2026). Full list

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