Professor Michal Luntz
Otolaryngologist (ENT). Michal Luntz is a professor and highly professional physician known far beyond Israel, specializing in ear surgery and in correcting and restoring hearing in both adults and children. Head of the Otolaryngology Department at Assuta Medical Center.
She received her higher education in Israel, graduating with honors from the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.
She completed her residency in otolaryngology at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.
She trained for a long time at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami in otoneurosurgery and hearing restoration in adults and children.
She is a member of the European, American, French and Israeli associations of otolaryngologists, as well as societies of oncology and head and neck surgery and hearing research of Israel, France and America.
Michal Luntz currently heads the Otolaryngology Department at Assuta Medical Center and the Otolaryngology Department of Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa. She is the author of a comprehensive program, introduced at the center, for restoring the ear and hearing, including with cochlear implants. In her practice the doctor uses minimally invasive, minimally traumatic operations, thereby shortening the patient's recovery period.
For many years Professor Luntz has been engaged in research, the results of which have been published in more than 100 articles in well-known medical journals.
Michal Luntz is an active participant and speaker at conferences and international symposia of specialists in this field.
She successfully combines her practical and scientific work with heading the Department of Otolaryngology at the Technion Faculty of Medicine, and also lectures at the University of Haifa. She regularly gives talks on the latest achievements in otolaryngology to students at leading universities in America, England, Italy and Germany.
For outstanding scientific achievements, in 2002 Michal Luntz was awarded a prize by the Prime Minister's Office of Israel.
Professor Luntz's main areas of work:
- Hearing diagnostics;
- Cochlear implantation (hearing device) in children as treatment for sensorineural hearing loss;
- Implantation of devices (BAHA and VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE);
- Treatment of vestibular system diseases;
- Rehabilitation of hearing disorders with myringoplasty, tympanoplasty, ossiculoplasty;
- Treatment of ear cancer.
Hundreds of patients with congenital or acquired deafness from all over the world send their thanks to Dr. Luntz. Thanks to her skill and knowledge, these people lead full and active lives, enjoying the many voices of the world around them.