Konstantina Marka Stankovic is an otolaryngologist and physician-scientist working as the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of Nanotechnology–Head and Neck Surgery at

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since 2022.

Life

Konstantina Marka Stanković was born to Marko and Danica Trboić. She has two brothers. She first moved to the United States as a high school exchange student. She earned a B.S. in biology and physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992. Earle L. Lomon and

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were her undergraduate physics advisors. She completed a Ph.D. (1998) in speech and hearing bioscience and technology and M.D. (1999) from the

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. Her dissertation was titled, ''Efferent Effects on Auditory-nerve Responses to Tones: Substantial Inhibition Even at High Sound Levels and Tail Frequencies''. She completed a

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residency at Harvard Medical School. She conducted a research fellowship in molecular neuroscience at the

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and Boston Children's Hospital. She was a neurotological clinical fellow at the Harvard Medical School. She was an associate professor of otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and director of the division otology and neurotology at

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. She was president of the American Auditory Society in 2014. In 2015, she was elected a member American Otological Society. In 2018, she was elected a member of the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum. She became an honorary corresponding member of the Germany Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in 2021. She is a Fellow of the American Neurotology Society and the

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. In 2022, she joined

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as the chair of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, succeeding Robert K. Jackler. Stankovic is the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.

References

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