Sten Hellstrom MD, PhD

Sten Hellstrom is a senior professor in Otorhinolaryngology (ORL) at Karolinska Institutet (KI). Before retirement, he was a senior consultant and chief of the Department of Audiology and Neurotology at Karolinska Univ Hospital. SH started his career at Umea? University, the most Northern university of Sweden. Here he was the professor of ORL and CMO of the hospital for several years before moving to Stockholm. He was chairman of the Acta Oto-Laryngologica Foundation for 20 years. At KI, he is general secretary for the Center for Hearing and Communication Research and was one of the initiators of the Scientific Center for Advanced Pediatric Audiology. His research has mainly focused on the middle ear, but more recently on the inner ear and hearing rehabilitation. He is a world expert in the field of otitis media and has published more than 300 papers. He has a broad network of international scientists.