Desiderio Passali

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Desiderio Passali (born 1947) is an Italian doctor and ear, nose and throat professor at the ENT Department of Siena University. Passali worked for 40 years in ENT departments of various University hospitals, in Italy, and established ENT departments in Rome, Siena and L'Aquila he headed for 45 years, and where many physicians and students studied otolaryngology and audiology. His clinical, surgical and scientific main interest centered on rhinology, inflammatory ear diseases, pediatric otolaryngology, allergy, equilibrium.

He was the first in Italy to study the physiology of the nose and contributed substantially to the discipline of rhinology introducing and standardizing methods of study such as rhinomanometry and mucociliary clearance. Desiderio Passali's research dealt with the subjects that interested him clinically, leading to new clinical evaluation and new concepts. Passali was the first to describe of detection of MCT by an original composition of vegetable charcoal powder and saccharin powder at 3%.

Passali published 850 scientific papers in international scientific journals and 32 books on ENT diseases. In addition, he supervised 21 doctoral and master's dissertations. Desiderio Passali was a member of the editorial boards of 14 international scientific journals and is an honorary member of 20 national and international scientific associations dealing mostly with ENT diseases and ten times he was elected president of one of these scientific associations. He was invited to present lectures at several international meetings and he initiated and presided several international ENT congresses. Provided by Wikipedia