About us

1. Advancing the cause of Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening (EHDI) across the globe.
2. Identifying countries and building infrastructure and expertise there.
3. Identifying countries that need more audiologists and getting training to them.
4. Developing Fellowships, hopefully sponsored, for promising ear surgeons, in developing countries.
5. Developing virtual multidisciplinary networks where potential CI patients can be discussed, with experienced CI surgeons and Audiologists supporting the less experienced.
6. Developing closer understanding with the CI and Hearing Aid manufacturers, so that we can persuade them of the business possibilities/sense of:
   1. Providing more affordable CIs and Hearing Aids
   2. Funding EHDI
   3. Building audiology access in countries where it is lacking, and thus increasing their market
   4. Keeping costs of attending the meetings down – perhaps by getting sponsorships for the less wealthy.

Dato Professor Dr Prepageran is a Senior Professor and Consultant in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya. His appointments include:

a) Visiting or Adjunct Professor in 9 universities around the world including India, Mongolia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, Brunei, Hungary and South Africa

b) As Invited Expert Surgeon involving more than 450 cases Malaysia, International Thailand, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Hungary, Pakistan, Vietnam, Mongolia etc

c) Head of Department, Dept of ORL and Head & Neck Surgery 2011-2016

d) National Conjoint Board of Otolaryngology Specialist Training Committee in

Otolaryngology and Residency of Malaysia 2011-2013

e) Malaysian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery (President 2013-2014)

f) 9th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery of the Skull base, Brain and Spine (President 2020-2024) (This is the first time the event is held outside of US/ Europe)

g) Asian Research Symposium in Rhinology (President 2015-2017)

h) APSCI (President 2025)

i) President Asia Pacific Otology Neurotology Conference 2013

j) Asian Research Symposium in Rhinology (President 2025)

k) International Working Group Endoscopic Ear Surgeons (IWGEES)

l) As Chairman/ Committee member of more than 50 local and international committees/ societies/ panel of expert

• His latest publication include the Atlas of 360 degrees Skull Base Surgery published by Thieme Publishers in 2022. It is a book of more than 1000 pages encompassing the entire range of Skull Base Surgery, detailed step by step surgical techniques, tips, tricks to avoid complications with collaboration with surgeons from Harvard, Oxford and Ohio University. His other works have been documented in

a) 16 Books

b) 3 Lateral Skull Base Surgery Ebooks with free videos accessible globally

c) 19 Surgical Manuals

d) 59 Book chapters

e) 255 Peer reviewed papers

f) 21 Teaching on Electronic media

g) YouTube channel:  ENT Skullbase UMMC with more than 4000 subscribers and 119 videos

h) 147 Abstracts/ Posters/Conference proceedings

i) 782 presentations as invited speaker/ Faculty

• He has also found the time to supervise

a) 6 PhD candidates

b) 62 Post-Graduate candidates

c) 52 Clinical Fellows from Malaysia, England, Switzerland, Kenya, South Africa, Mongolia, India and Greece

d) And participate as an instructor in live dissection in more than 100 events in Europe, Asia, US, Brazil and Russia

• He is one of the very few surgeons who is globally recognized for Rhinology, Otology and both anterior and lateral skull base (including cochlear implant and endoscopic ear) work.