Professor Marcus Atlas - A brief biography
Marcus Atlas
is the inaugural Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of
Western Australia. He is also the founding Director of the Lions Ear
and Hearing Institute.
Born in Perth,
Professor Atlas graduated in Medicine at the University of Western
Australia in 1982. An interest in ear and hearing disorders was
established early in his career and he completed the Fellowship of
the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, specialising in
Otolaryngology, in 1990. He was awarded the Athelstan and Amy Saw
Medical Scholarship to undertake fellowships in ear and skull base
surgery at Cambridge, UK and Pittsburgh, USA, and returned to
Australia to take up an appointment at St Vincents Hospital campus
in Sydney. He spent nearly 10 years there, specialising in ear and
hearing surgery, and established research programmes in ear
disorders.
Marcus Atlas
accepted the inaugural Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Foundation
Chair in Otolaryngology at the University of Western Australia in
2000, and was a major driving force behind the establishment of the
Lions Ear and Hearing Institute in 2001. In only a short time, the
LEHI has established an international reputation with its
multidisciplinary approach to hearing research, distinguished by a
unique combination of doctors and hearing professionals who work in
direct collaboration with laboratories, scientists and engineers.
Professor Atlas
presently has an active research programme and is internationally
recognised for his surgical expertise and techniques. His main
interests at the LEHI include:
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Tissue engineering of the ear - using
patients' own tissues to recreate the structures of the ear, to
restore hearing and replace diseased parts |
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Telemedicine - using sophisticated
computer systems and the internet to diagnose, treat and discover
hearing and ear disorders |
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Virtual reality surgery - using simulators
to create a virtual surgical environment, to train surgeons in complex
ear surgery |
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Hearing implants and hearing aids - using
new hearing implants to improve hearing outcomes, including bilateral
cochlear implantation, bone anchored hearing aids for one-sided hearing
loss, and new implantable hearing aids. |
Professor Atlas is
the author of two internationally recognised books, eight book
chapters and has authored more than seventy papers, published in
refereed journals, and has produced a number of surgical DVD's that
have been released world-wide. He has convened, or has been the
invited instructor, at over twenty hands-on surgical courses, both
in Australia and overseas.
In addition,
Professor Atlas is the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of
Otolaryngology, and has been appointed to the Editorial Board of
other international journals. He has been invited to join the
Advisory Committees of numerous international bodies and
conferences.
Marcus Atlas is married with two children.
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