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prof. dr. Ronald Pennings
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About Ronald Pennings
Ronald Pennings is an ENT specalist who is specialised in ear surgery and care for patients with hearing loss. read moreAbout Ronald Pennings
Professor Ronald Pennings (MD, PhD) is ear surgeon and researcher in etiology, rehabilitation and (genetic) therapy of sensorineural hearing loss, with >125 peer-reviewed publications. Ronald is head of the ENT department of the Radboud university medical center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is clinical head of Hearing & Genes, the expertise-center for diagnostic and therapeutic approaches of (genetic) hearing loss at the Radboudumc in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. He has >15 years of clinical experience in tertiary otologic care and has performed more than 600 Cochlear Implant surgeries. Professor Ronald Pennings is co-founder and chair of DOOFNL, a Dutch consortium that aims to improve (otogenetic) diagnostics of hearing loss patients and to perform collaborative research. He also was one of the executive board members of ESPCI2023 in Rotterdam.
Position(s)
- afdelingshoofd/hoogleraar
Education
- 2001 Medicine - Catholic University Nijmegen (with honours)
- 2004 PhD project: Hereditary Deaf-Blindness, clinical and genetic aspects (with honours)
- 2008 ENT specialist - Radboud university medical center
- 2009 Fellowship Otology-Neurotology. Halifax - Canada
- 2019 Comenius European Leadership Course
Additional Functions
- Visiting professor Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2022 - 2025)
- Member Program committee Neonatal Hearing Screening (RIVM)
- Member Working group Innovation of Neonatal Hearing Screening (RIVM)
Additional functions
- Board member of the NVWPO (Nederlands-Vlaamse Werkgroep voor Pediatrische Otorhinolaryngologie 2010- present)
- Member of Nederlandse Vereniging voor Keel- Neus- en oorheelkunde (2008 - present)
