Jiří Skřivan, M.D. , PhD.
Current position: 2015 – 2021 head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and University Hospital Motol.
As a travelling surgeon visiting often foreing ENT departments as an instructor and lecturer in otosurgery, skull base surgery, cochlear implantation and Baha surgery (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Malta, Palestine, Kuwait and Oman).
Operated over 1200 cochlear implants of all major brands (Cochlear, MedEl, Advanced Bionics). Personal experience with Cochlear TM Nucleus® Electrode Portfolio (CI 512, CI422, Hybrid L24, CI24RE(ST), CI24M Double Array, CI532).
◼ Paediatric bilateral cochlear implantation as a standard programme in congenital deafness in small children
◼ Personal experience with auditory brainstem ímplants in adults (5 adult patients with a neurosurgeon). Department of Otolaryngology, The 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, University Hospital Motol Institute of Postgradual EducationProfessional Career
◼ 1984 — 2014:
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Charles University in Prague; full-time employee (various professional positions — assistant lecturer, postgradual education of medical students and bachelors in otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery, chief doctor of a patient ward, head of otosurgical team and otosurgical out-patient department, head of a cochlear and auditory brainstem implantation programme);
◼ 2001 — 2015:
working as a part-time ENT speciality Master Physician and Lector in the the Prague ambulatory center for foreigners (Canadian Medical Care) and out-patient one-day surgery center
Areas of Interest
◼ Surgery of chronic otitis media and its sequelae — cholesteatoma, reconstructive middle ear surgery, use of synthetic materials in the middle ear cavity, ionomer glass cement in a reconstructive ear surgery, surgery of otogenic suppurative complications, surgery of congenital anomalies of the ear
◼ Secretory otitis media in children — conservative and surgical treatment
◼ Cochlear implantation and auditory brainstem implantation — selection of suitable implant candidates, surgery, postoperative care and rehabilitation; pre-surgical electrical stimulation of deaf (promontory test), predictive factors in candidates of cochlear implantation, CT and MRI imaging of the cochlea
◼ Bone anchored hearing aids (Baha) in a conductive and mixed hearing loss and in single sided deafness
◼ Skull- base surgery – surgery of vestibular schwannomas (via translab), tympanojugular paragangliomas, carcinomas and other complicated and large entities involving the lateral skull base
◼ Antibiotic treatment of external and middle ear infections
◼ Computers — database management of group of patients (cochlear implant candidates, surgery for cholesteatoma)
◼ Main author of major grant projects (Electrical stimulation of deaf, Predictive factors in cochlear implants, Functional evaluation of results of tympanoplasties, Auditory brainstem implants, Identification of hearing nuclei in the brainstem, Baha in a single-sided deafness), co-author of number of other grant projects
◼ Published over 80 papers in specialized periodics both home and abroad as a main author and over 40 as co-author; 3 translations of medical textbooks for postgraduates from English to Czech, presented over 80 lectures in renowned meetings both home and abroad.
◼ H-index 5 WOS (January 2022) Memberships
◼ Czech Society for Otolaryngology (1984)
◼ Chamber of Czech Doctors (1991)
◼ Academicus Antonius Precechtel Foundation for Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (1992)
◼ Cochlear Implantation Committee (1996)
◼ The European Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology, ESPO (2016)
Qualification
◼ 1984 Medical faculty graduation
(23 May 1984, Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University in Prague)
◼ 1987 Postgraduate diploma of the 1st degree in otolaryngology
(19 October 1987, Institute of Postgradual Education, Prague, Czech Republic)
◼ 1991 Postgraduate diploma of the 2nd degree in otolaryngology
(17 December 1991, Institute of Postgradual Education, Prague, Czech Republic)
◼ 1991-1998 Junior assistant lecturer in otolaryngology, the First Medical Faculty, Charles University
◼ 1998 to now Senior assistant lecturer in otolaryngology, the First Medical Faculty, Charles University
◼ 1999 Head of the surgical clinical section (surgical theatres and staff)
◼ 2001 Clinical deputy for research and development
◼ 2001 PhD thesis defended succesfully (entitled Predictive Factors in Cochlear Implant Candidates)(27 November 2001, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
◼ 2002 Awarded degree of Master Physician and Lector for the Ear, Nose and Throat speciality(9 January 2002, Czech Medical Chamber)
Languages
◼ English, Russian, basic French