Professor Marcus Atlas is a surgeon and scientist specialising in ear and hearing disorders.

He has held the Foundation Chair in Otolaryngology at the University of Western Australia since 2000 and is the Director of the Ear Science Institute Australia (ESIA). Under Professor Atlas’s directorship, Ear Science Institute Australia is now recognised as a leading global centre of excellence in research, education, clinical activities and community programmes.

Professor Atlas has thirty years’ experience in the specialist area of ear, hearing, skull base and hearing implant surgery. He trains Otolaryngologsts in higher level ear and skull base surgey in an internationally renowned fellowship. His surgical training Fellowship and courses attract doctors from around the world to Western Australia. Professor Atlas has represented Australia at numerous international surgery and cochlear implant as well as basic research meetings.

He is on the editorial board of numerous journals and has published over 120 international publications, two editions of a book and a three-volume DVD ear surgery manual used throughout the world.