| Konstantina Marka Stankovic | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Head and neck surgery |
| Institutions | Harvard University Stanford University |
| Academic advisors | Felix Villars |
Konstantina Marka Stankovic is an otolaryngologist and physician-scientist working as the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of Nanotechnology–Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine since 2022.
Life
Konstantina Marka Stanković was born to Marko and Danica Trboić. She has two brothers. She first moved to the United States as a high school exchange student. She earned a B.S. in biology and physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992. Earle L. Lomon and Felix Villars were her undergraduate physics advisors.
She completed a Ph.D. (1998) in speech and hearing bioscience and technology and M.D. (1999) from the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Her dissertation was titled, Efferent Effects on Auditory-nerve Responses to Tones: Substantial Inhibition Even at High Sound Levels and Tail Frequencies. She completed a otorhinolaryngological residency at Harvard Medical School. She conducted a research fellowship in molecular neuroscience at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Boston Children's Hospital. She was a neurotological clinical fellow at the Harvard Medical School. She was an associate professor of otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and director of the division otology and neurotology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. She was president of the American Auditory Society in 2014.
In 2015, she was elected a member American Otological Society. In 2018, she was elected a member of the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum. She became an honorary corresponding member of the Germany Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in 2021. She is a Fellow of the American Neurotology Society and the American College of Surgeons. In 2022, she joined Stanford Health Care as the chair of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, succeeding Robert K. Jackler. Stankovic is the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.
References
- ^ Stanković, Konstantina Marka (1998). Efferent Effects on Auditory-nerve Responses to Tones: Substantial Inhibition Even at High Sound Levels and Tail Frequencies (Ph.D. thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology. hdl:1721.1/7582. OCLC 1141655791.
- ^ "Konstantina M. Stankovic, MD, PhD, FACS | Stanford Medicine". CAP Profiles (in Samoan). Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- "Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, FACS". harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- Suratt, Julie (2020-01-07). "The Case of the Curious Clicking Noise". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- ^ "Stanford Health Care Appoints New Chair of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery". stanfordhealthcare.org. 2022. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- Living people
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Harvard Medical School alumni
- Harvard Medical School faculty
- American otolaryngologists
- Physician-scientists
- American women surgeons
- 21st-century American women physicians
- 21st-century American physicians
- American medical researchers
- American women medical researchers
- Stanford University School of Medicine faculty
- Fellows of the American College of Surgeons
- Women otolaryngologists
- Expatriate academics in the United States
- 21st-century surgeons