Department of Otolaryngology at University Hospital Mainz

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University Hospital Mainz

Mainz, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Christoph Matthias

Department of Otolaryngology

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Otolaryngology at University Hospital Mainz provides care for patients with diseases of the ear, nose, and throat as well as tumors of the head and neck. The department is located in a modern building that is equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostics and offers therapeutics as well as surgical techniques for head and neck surgery. The department has 5 modern operating rooms where about 6,000 surgical interventions are performed every year. One of the special features of the department is computer-assisted surgery.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Christoph Matthias, the department treats 4,500 inpatients annually, many of which suffer from hearing loss. The department offers cochlear implantation for balance disorders as well as therapy for speech and hearing disorders. The department has a special team of surgeons for the surgical treatment of head and neck tumors and injuries.

The Department of Otolaryngology at University Hospital Mainz is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

•   Cholesteatoma
•   Dizziness
•   Dysphagia
•   Otitis media
•   Gastric reflux
•   Hearing loss
•   Speech disorders
•   Hoarseness
•   Sleep apnea
•   Sore throat
•   Sinusitis
•   Meiner’s disease
•   Allergic diseases
•   Tonsillitis
•   Facial nerve paralysis
•   Rhinitis
•   Nasal polyps

Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Matthias began studying medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1985.
In 1993, he graduated from the university, having defended his doctoral thesis with honors.
Until 2003, he served as a Research Assistant at the University Hospital Charite in Berlin, where he became a Medical Specialist in Otolaryngology.
Since January 2003, Prof. Matthias has been appointed as the Leading Senior Physician of the Department of Otolaryngology at Charite.
In the same year, he changed for the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where until 2005 he worked as a Senior Physician in the Department of Otolaryngology.
From 2005 to 2006, he held the same position in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University Hospital Erlangen-Nuremberg.
In 2006, the doctor received the title of W2 Professor in Otolaryngology with a focus on Experimental Oncology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he worked as a Leading Senior Physician.
From 2007 to 2014, Dr. Christoph Matthias served as the Head of the Polyclinic and Department of Otolaryngology at the University Hospital Göttingen. His research activities are based on internships in the USA and England.
In the US, he was involved in research in the Department of Pathology at the University of Virginia and the Institute of Human Genetics at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
In England, he did research at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Keela in North Staffordshire and the ARC Epidemiology Research Unit at the University of Manchester. Dr. Matthias was a Fellow of the Carl Duisberg Foundation.
Currently, Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Matthias is the Head of the Department of Adult and Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University Hospital Mainz.
His research activities are aimed at identifying and studying risk factors for head and neck cancer and developing effective prevention strategies.
In addition, his research interests include the identification and description of cancer-specific antigens.
In clinical practice, the doctor offers the full range of ENT services at the university level. Particular attention is paid to the diagnostics and treatment of head and neck cancer, ear diseases and skull base surgery.