Alfio Ferlito is Formerly Director of the Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Udine School of Medicine from 2003 to 2009 and Professor and Chairman of the ENT Clinic at the same University from 1997 to 2013. He graduated in medicine at the University of Bologna in 1968. He completed his residence programme in otolaryngology and subsequently in pathology. He worked at the ENT Department of   Padua University from 1970 to 1997. Since 2009 he is the Coordinator of the International Head Neck Scientific Group (www.IHNSG.com).