Nicolás Pérez Fernández

Biography

    Graduate (1985) and doctor in Medicine and Surgery (1997) by the University of Navarra. Specialist in Otorhinolaryngology by the University of Navarra Clinic.   He has stayed at the Massacussetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School in Klinikzentrum Basel. University of Basel in Division of Audiology and Neurootology. University Hospital Basel and the Ocular Motor Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Center for Hearing and Balance. Research Areas He has participated in 13 research projects of his specialty. Among which are: Otopatology: experimental methods and models Study of the efficacy of Betahistina in Ménière's Disease by means of the analysis of the variations of the summation potential and acoustic emissions Efficacy of Trimetazidine 80 mg prolonged release in recurrent vestibular vertigo: 2-month multicenter study versus placebo. Central auditory brainstem implants. Three-dimensional analysis of the calico-rotatory vestibulo-oculomotor reflex in normal population and effects of aging. Detection of cochlear hydrops in the asymptomatic ear of patients with unilateral Ménière's disease. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study on the efficacy and acceptability of V0251 with doses of 1g, 2g, 4g on vestibular neuritis. Clinical, placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trial of efficacy, safety and tolerability of neramexane in patients with subjective tinnitus. Long-term open-label treatment study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and long-term efficacy of neramexane in patients with subjective tinnitus. Efficacy and tolerance of oral suspension V0251 in vestibular neuritis   As a teacher Positive evaluation as "Professor Contracted Doctor" by ANECA on January 21, 2004.   Positive evaluation as "Professor of the University" by ANECA October 30, 2008.   Adjunct Professor of the Department (Area knowledge "Otorhinolaryngology") University of Navarra April 7, 2009.   Recognized 3 years of researcher by the National Commission Evaluating the Research Activity (CNEAI) in 2012. As researcher He has participated as speaker in more than one hundred national and international congresses.   He has written 55 chapters of books. He is the author of 6 complete books and 24 books editor.

Research Interest

 Acoustic otoacoustic emissions of distortion products in the diagnosis of auditory pathology. Ménière's disease Early detection of neonatal hearing loss. Universal program of detection by transient acoustic oto-emissions Development of a clinical protocol of Oto-Neurological exploration. Diagnostic tests. Development of an instrumental evaluation protocol for patients with dizziness and vertigo using Electronystagmography, Videonystagmography (2 / 3D), sinusoidal and high frequency rotatory stimulation and Dynamic Posturography Meniere's disease: diagnostic criteria (glycerol test) and therapeutic intratympanic gentamicin) Positional vertigo Central vestibular syndromes. Differential diagnosis. New techniques of vestibular exploration. Otitis media Laberintitis Endolymphatic hydrops Central auditory implant (auditory stem implant of the brain) Development of the experimental model of implant and evaluation of the modifications (histological and functional) in the central auditory pathway.