Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Heinrich Iro

Professor Heinrich Iro is a recognized authority among ENT experts: in a nationwide survey held among medical professionals in March 2016, he was included in the list of Germany's best doctors.

The Erlangen-Nuremberg University Hospital ENT Department headed by Prof. Iro is one of the largest in Germany, featuring 80 beds, six operating rooms, an intensive care unit and a university outpatient clinic. Every year it takes care of over 5000 inpatient and about 33 000 outpatient cases. It is the only clinic in Bavaria which has a stand-alone department for phoniatrics and pedaudiology with a speech therapy training school, as well as a professorship in audiology. Inner ear prostheses (cochlear implants) have been used in the Erlangen ENT Department since 1992 and about one hundred patients receive this advanced treatment early. The Cicero Cochlear Implant Center, founded in 2009, is now one of the five major specialized facilities in the country. Among other conditions, the hospital has major expertise in tinnitus and vertigo management.

Prof.Iro is a certified specialist in ENT, ENT surgery, plastic surgery, environmental medicine and allergology. In his surgical practice, Prof. Iro favors organ preservation, differentiated approach and function-preserving surgical techniques.

Education

• 1975-1981 Human medicine Saarland University

Professional Experience

• 1981 License to practice medicine
• 1982 United States Medical Licensing Examination
• 1982 PhD thesis defense with honors Saarland University
• 1982-1984 Medical officer Bad Zwischenahn Military Hospital
• 1984-1985 Assistant physician Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department, University Hospital Erlangen–Nuremberg
• 1985-1990 Physician Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department, University Hospital Erlangen–Nuremberg
• 1989 Specialist in otorhinolaryngology Bavarian State Medical Association
• 1990 Habilitation Faculty of Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• 1990-1995 Senior Physician Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department, University Hospital Erlangen–Nuremberg
• 1993 Specialist in plastic surgery Bavarian State Medical Association
• 1995-2000 Director ENT Department, Saarland University Hospital
• Since 2000 Director Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department, University Hospital Erlangen–Nuremberg
• 2004-2009 Deputy Medical Director University Hospital Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Since 02.2009 Medical Director University Hospital Erlangen-Nuremberg

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