Brinkman Lecture

 
Every year a special lecture, named after the founder of the Nijmgen ENT-department is prepared.
In 2026 Professor Manohar Bance will present the Brinkman Lecture.
 
 

Manohar Bance is an Otologist/Neurotologist and clinician-scientist at the University of Cambridge and is an honorary Consultant at the Cambridge University NHS Foundation Trust. He is the inaugural Professor of Otology and Skull Base Surgery at the University of Cambridge, UK since 2017. Prior to that he was Head of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Dalhousie University in Canada 

He also directs the Sensory Engineering and Sensory Encoding (SENSE lab at the University of Cambridge 

He has published over 250 peer reviewed papers, and multiple book chapters. 

Prof Bance is Past President of the RSM Section of Otology, Past Chair of the British Cochlear Implant Group and recipient of a life-time achievement award from the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

 
 
 
The presenters of previous Brinkman lectures are listed below:
 

Brinkman lecturers

 1985  Gordon Smyth  2004  Ulf Mercke
 1986  Michael Paparella  2005  Karl-Bernd Hüttenbrink
 1987  Michel Portmann  2006  Thomas Lenarz
 1988  Jacob Sadé  2007  Patrice Tran Ba Huy
 1989  Dietrich Plester  2008  John Niparko
 1990  Carl-Rudolf Pfaltz  2008  Anders Tjellström
 1991  Adolf Mielhke  2009  Gerard O’Donoghue
 1992  Christian Deguine  2010  Bruce Gantz
 1993  Ugo Fisch  2011  Michael Gleeson
 1994  Malte Wigand  2012  Mario Sanna
 1995  Derald Brackmann  2013  Richard Ramsden
 1996  Jacques Magnan  2014  Thomas Linder
 1997  George Browning  2015  Jef Mulder
 1998  Mirko Tos  2016  Anne Schilder
 1999  Robert A. Jahrsdoerfer  2017  Robert Vincent
 2000  Paul van den Broek  2018  Antje Aschendorff
 2001  Noel Cohen  2019  Erwin Offeciers
 2002  David A. Moffat  2020  Matthew Yung
 2003  Alan G. Kerr  2023  Catherine Birman
     2024  Per Caye-Thomasen
     2025  Sébastien Schmerber