Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Berlin, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Marc Bloching
Department of Otolaryngology
Department of Otolaryngology at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch provides conservative and surgical care for inpatients and outpatients with diseases of the ear, nose, and throat, as well as malignancies of the head and neck. The department also provides its service for patients with sleep disorders, voice and language disorders, and hearing impairments. As a member of the Helios Hearing Center Berlin-Brandenburg, the full range of hearing aids and cochlear implants is also available. The facility offers comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of dizziness, such as paroxysmal vertigo. The medical staff is made of otolaryngologists, audiology specialists, rehabilitologists, and pediatric otolaryngologists who treat congenital, inflammatory, neoplastic, and degenerative diseases of the ear, nose, and throat.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Marc Bloching, the staff treats over 2,900 inpatients every year. One of the key focuses is the surgical treatment of head and neck lesions as the facility offers surgical resection as well as reconstructive surgeries. Pathologies, such as Meniere’s disease, vestibular neuritis, and vestibular migraine, are also managed through the exceptional medical team.
The Department of Otolaryngology at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
- Otitis externa
- Otitis medica
- Cholesteatoma
- Otosclerosis
- Acoustic neuroma
- Meniere's disease
- Vestibular neuritis
- Postural vertigo
- Paroxysmal vertigo
- Sinusitis
- Nasal septum deviation
- Rhinoscleroma
- Dysphagia
- Hearing loss
- Hoarseness
- Laryngeal cancer
- Sleep apnea
- Nosebleeds
Education and Clinical Training
- 1985 - 1988 Basic Study of Chemistry, Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University Aachen.
- 1986 - 1992 Study of Human Medicine at the University of Cologne, the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf and the Free University of Berlin.
- 1992 State Exam, Berlin.
- 1993 Doctoral thesis defense on Internal Medicine, summa cum laude, Free University of Berlin. Subject: "Removal of endotoxins from body fluids and blood plasma".
- 1996 Internship in Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (under the supervision of Prof. Mark Urken).
- 1997 Board certification in Otolaryngology, Lecturer in head and neck ultrasound scanning of the German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM).
- 1998 Senior Physician, advanced training at the Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, Martin Luther University, additional qualification in the treatment of voice and speech disorders.
- 2000 Internship at the University of California, San Francisco, surgery for skull base tumors and cerebellopontine angle tumors.
- 2001 Additional qualification in Special ENT Surgery, as well as permission to conduct advanced training courses in the field of continuous-wave Doppler and duplex scanning, the position of Leading Senior Physician.
- 2002 Additional qualification in Plastic Surgery.
Professional Career
- 1992 - 1993 Researcher of the "Tracheal Prosthetics" Project, Department of Otolaryngology at the Charite University Hospital Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin.
- 1993 - 1994 Assistant Physician in the Department of Otolaryngology at the Charite University Hospital Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin.
- 1994 - 2002 Research Fellow in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
- April 2002 Habilitation: "Assessment of the relative risk of head and neck cancers using biomarkers".
- 2003 Deputy Head of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
- 2006 W3 Professor in Otolaryngology and Head of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University Hospital Saarland Homburg.
- 2008 Head of the Department of Adult and Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch.
- 2009 Head of the Working group on Rhinology and Rhinosurgery of the German Society of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.
Clinical Interests
- Plastic reconstructive surgery for malformations and defects of the head, neck, and trachea, also using free microvascular flaps for anastomosis.
- Facial reconstructive interventions in men with gender changes, operations on the vocal cords, nose reshaping, improvement of nasal breathing by correcting the nasal valve.
- Treatment of skull base and orbital diseases.
- Surgery to improve hearing, installation of partially implantable hearing aids and cochlear implants.
Department of Otolaryngology
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