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Dr. Manuel Manrique
Director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology.
Specialist in Otorhinolaryngology.
Primary focus on hearing loss, tinnitus and auditory implants.
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Professional career
Degree (1980) and PhD in Medicine and Surgery (1989), University of Navarra. He completed specialist training in Otorhinolaryngology at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra, and furthered his training with a specialised placement in Otology and Otoneurology at the House Ear Institute (Los Angeles).
Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) awarded by the University of San Pablo de Tucumán, Argentina (March 2014).
Director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra since 2015.
Director of the Cochlear Implant Programme at the University of Navarra since 1989.
RESEARCH AREAS
Research lines:
In general, projects related to hearing, specifically:
- Auditory implants: cochlear implants, cochleo-vestibular implants, bone conduction implants, active middle ear implants and auditory brainstem implants for stimulation of the auditory pathway.
- Minimally traumatic inner ear surgery. Intracochlear drug delivery.
- Genetic diagnosis and gene therapy for hearing loss.
- Hearing and balance for healthy ageing.
Editorial boards:
- Member of the Editorial Board of: “Cochlear Implants International and Interdisciplinary Journal”, “Acta Otorrinolaringológica Española”, “IAO” (The Journal of International Advanced Otology), “Otology & Neurotology” and “International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology”.
Projects:
- 8 research projects in public, competitive calls as Principal Investigator.
- 32 highly relevant research projects in companies or public administration as Principal Investigator.
- 3 research projects in public, competitive calls as a member of the research team.
- 17 highly relevant research projects in companies or public administration as a member of the research team.
Patents:
- Inventors: Manuel Manrique, Javier Gracia Gaudó. Title: Electrode carrier guide, cochlear implant provided with said guide, and manufacturing process.
- Inventors: Joan Savall, Manuel Manrique. Title: Support for steadying a surgical tool / Soporte para afianzar una herramienta quirúrgica.
- Inventors: Angel Ramos de Miguel, Mª Teresa Pérez Zaballos, Ángel Ramos Macías, Juan Carlos Falcón González, Silivia A. Borkoski Barreiro, Manuel Manrique Rodriguez, Nicolás Pérez Fernández, Erwin Offeciers, Andrej Kral, Jesús Benitez del Rosario, Andrzej Zarowski, Daniel Pérez Plasencia, Ángel Osorio Acosta, Gloria Guera Jiménez. Title: Device, method and software programme to generate one or more electrical stimulation signals for the saccule and utricle of a patient.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the auditory pathway.
Activity
In teaching
- Accredited by ANECA as a Private University Professor.
- Accredited by ANECA as a “Profesor Contratado Doctor”.
- Tenured University Professor, knowledge area Otorhinolaryngology. University Coordination Council, Secretariat of State for Universities and Research, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
- Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra.
- Professor (Chair) of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra.
- Academic advisor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra.
In research
- He has participated as a speaker in more than 266 scientific communications at national and international conferences.
- He has published more than 150 articles in national and international journals. He has also published 11 monographs, 59 book chapters and 8 books: Manual de Rehabilitación del Implante Coclear, Guía para la Disección del Hueso Temporal, Implantes Cocleares, Prótesis Implantables en Otocirugía, Diccionario Multilingüe de otología e implantes cocleares, Aspectos legales del Acto Médico en Otorrinolaringología y Patología Cérvico–Facial, Audiología—Official Report of the Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervico-Facial Pathology 2014
Recognition
- Scientific Coordinator of the Center for Biomedical Engineering of the Universidad de Navarra
Scientific organizations
- Member of the Collegium oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (CORLAS).
- Member of the Spanish Society of Otolaryngology and Cervico-Facial Pathology since 1986.
- Founding member of the Spanish-German Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervico-Facial Surgery, 1994.
- Member of the Spanish Commission for Early Detection of Hearing Loss (CODEPEH) from 1995 to 2002.
- Member of the Navarra Association of Otorhinolaryngology from its foundation to the present.
- Associate Member of the Interamerican Association of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 2007.
- Corresponding Member of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, May 2009.
- Honorary Member of the Cuban Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, October 2009.