Luis Lassaletta

Head of Section, Department of Otorhinolaryngology

Luis Lassaletta Atienza has been head of section in the Otorhinolaryngology Department of La Paz University Hospital in Madrid since 2012, coordinating the facial paralysis unit and heading the hearing implant unit. He directs the Otoneurosurgery Research group at the IdiPAZ research institute and has chaired the Otology Commission of the Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology since 2018. He has been associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the Autonomous University of Madrid since 2013 and was accredited by ANECA as a full professor in 2022. He is a member of the CIBERER research group since 2017 and sits on the executive committee of the Sir Charles Bell Society. His funded studies address music perception, quality of life and cognitive function in cochlear implant users, and he is first author of a 2026 paper on remote programming of cochlear implants.