I am currently serving a chairman of Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University of Tokyo. I am an executive board member of IFOS, Asia Oceania ORL-HNS, and the ORL society of Japan which more than 11000 members belong to. My main fields are otology and neurotology and I have a lot of experience of cochlear implantation, tympanoplasty, canaloplasty, and lateral skull base surgery. I am also a President of Japanese Audiological Society which contains more than 2500 members including approximately 1700 ENT doctors. The annual number of cochlear implantation has been increasing to be approximately 1200 in Japan.
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Guidelines on COVID-19 published by Asia Pacific Laryngology Association (APLA)
Due to a vast geographical spread with diverse socio-economic conditions in the Asia Pacific countries, APLA Founding Chair, Vasant Oswal, President, David Lau, and Secretary, Vyas Prasad decided to publish guidelines on COVID-19 in the form of an ‘International Consensus',...
