Angel Ramos-Macias

Professor of Otorhinolaryngology and Head of Otorhinolaryngology

Angel Ramos-Macias is professor of otorhinolaryngology at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, director of its Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and head of otorhinolaryngology at the university hospital in Gran Canaria. When the cochlear implant program of the Hospital Insular de Gran Canaria marked its 30th anniversary with 1,520 implants, he was head of the service, and in 2009 he was reported as the first surgeon in Europe to implant the Cochlear Nucleus 5, described as the smallest cochlear implant in the world. He is general secretary of the International Federation of Otolaryngological Societies (IFOS) and is listed as a member of the Royal Academy of Spanish Medicine. He has directed doctoral research on speech recognition in cochlear implant users and is named as an inventor on patents on vestibular stimulation.