**Meet the editor**

Prof. Fayez Bahmad Jr. is a doctor of medicine and specialist in otology and neurotology. He lives in Brasilia (Brazilian capital). He did the ENT Residency Program at the University of Brasilia Hospital in Otolaryngology between 2002 and 2005 and his PhD degree in the University of Brasilia – Medical School under the orientation of Professor Carlos A. Oliveira, MD, PhD. Professor

Oliveira, who has established an otopathology laboratory in his department, is one of the most well-succeeded researchers in otology in Brazil and South America.

He was a member of the Fellowship in Otology and Neurotology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School and Fellowship in Human Genetics at Seidman Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, when he was engaged in research projects under the mentorship of Professor Saumil N. Merchant, MD, PhD, and Professor Jonathan Seidman, MD, two of the foremost researchers in otology and otopathology and hearing pathogenetics.

He has experience in medicine, focusing on otological surgery, acting on the following subjects: hearing loss and tinnitus. He is the director of the Brasiliense Institute of Otolaryngology, an editor in chief of the traditional *The International Tinnitus Journal*, and a professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
