Prof. Dr. Wytske Fokkens

Wytske J. Fokkens is Professor at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. Her main field of interest is diseases of the nose and sinuses and the relation with the lower airways. She is the chairperson of the European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps (EPOS). Dr. Fokkens is the author of more than 500 papers on allergy and rhinology. She has written a textbook on Rhinology: Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery, From the Lab to the Operating Room – An Evidence Based Approach. For the last 15 years she has been organising an advanced sinus surgery course that is attended by sinus surgeons from all over the world to learn more extensive sinus surgery. Moreover, she is a frequently invited international speaker with special interest for new treatment options in rhinitis and rhinosinusitis with and without nasal polyps. She is honorary member of EAACI, the Spanish and Greek Societies of ORL, and the Roumanian Rhinologic Society. Specialties of professor Fokkens include: Difficult to treat rhinitis and rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps, sinus surgery, new treatment options for rhinitis and rhinosinusitis. Sinus & skull base surgery and mucosal pathology of the upper and lower airways.