Konstantina M. Stankovic | |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Head and neck surgery |
Institutions | Harvard University Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | John J. Guinan |
Other academic advisors | Felix Villars |
Konstantina Marka Stanković is an otolaryngologist and physician-scientist working as the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine since 2022.
Stanković was born to Marko and Danica Trboić.[1] She has two brothers.[1] She first moved to the United States as a high school exchange student.[1] She earned a B.S. in biology and physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.[2] Earle L. Lomon and Felix Villars were her undergraduate physics advisors.[1] 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.[2] Her dissertation was titled, Efferent Effects on Auditory-nerve Responses to Tones: Substantial Inhibition Even at High Sound Levels and Tail Frequencies.[1] John J. Guinan was her dissertation supervisor.[1] She completed a otorhinolaryngological residency at Harvard Medical School.[2] She conducted a research fellowship in molecular neuroscience at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Boston Children's Hospital.[2] She was a neurotological clinical fellow at the Harvard Medical School.[2]
Stankovic was an associate professor of otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and director of the division otology and neurotology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear.[3][4] She was president of the American Auditory Society in 2014.[2] In 2015, he was elected a member American Otological Society.[2] In 2018 she was elected a member of the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum.[2] She became an honorary corresponding member of the Germany Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in 2021.[2] She is a fellow of the American Neurotology Society and the American College of Surgeons.[2] In 2022, Stankovic joined Stanford Health Care in as the chair of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.[5] She succeeded Robert K. Jackler.[5] Stankovic is the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.[2]