Konstantina Stankovic
Konstantina Marka Stankovic | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Head and neck surgery |
| Institutions | Harvard University Stanford University |
| Academic advisors | Felix Villars |
Konstantina Marka Stankovic is an otolaryngologist and physician-scientist working as the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of Nanotechnology–Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine since 2022.
Life
[edit]Konstantina Marka Stanković was born to Marko and Danica Trboić.[where?][1] She has two brothers. She first moved to the United States as a high school exchange student.[1] She earned a B.S. in biology and physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992.[2] Earle L. Lomon and Felix Villars were her undergraduate physics advisors.[1]
She completed a Ph.D. (1998) in speech and hearing bioscience and technology and M.D. (1999) from the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.[2] Her dissertation was titled, Efferent Effects on Auditory-nerve Responses to Tones: Substantial Inhibition Even at High Sound Levels and Tail Frequencies.[1] She completed a otorhinolaryngological residency at Harvard Medical School. She conducted a research fellowship in molecular neuroscience at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Boston Children's Hospital. She was a neurotological clinical fellow at the Harvard Medical School.[2] She was an associate professor of otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and director of the division otology and neurotology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear.[3][4] She was president of the American Auditory Society in 2014.[2]
In 2015, she was elected a member American Otological Society.[2] 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 American College of Surgeons.[2] In 2022, she joined Stanford Health Care as the chair of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery,[5] succeeding Robert K. Jackler.[5] Stankovic is the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Stanković, Konstantina Marka (1998). Efferent Effects on Auditory-nerve Responses to Tones: Substantial Inhibition Even at High Sound Levels and Tail Frequencies (Ph.D. thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology. hdl:1721.1/7582. OCLC 1141655791.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Konstantina M. Stankovic, MD, PhD, FACS | Stanford Medicine". CAP Profiles (in Samoan). Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- ^ "Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, FACS". harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- ^ Suratt, Julie (2020-01-07). "The Case of the Curious Clicking Noise". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- ^ a b "Stanford Health Care Appoints New Chair of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery". stanfordhealthcare.org. 2022. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- Living people
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Harvard Medical School alumni
- Harvard Medical School faculty
- American otolaryngologists
- Physician-scientists
- American women surgeons
- 21st-century American women physicians
- 21st-century American physicians
- American medical researchers
- American women medical researchers
- Stanford University School of Medicine faculty
- Fellows of the American College of Surgeons
- Women otolaryngologists
- Expatriate academics in the United States
- 21st-century surgeons