FACULTY

DR PALMA BENEDEK
​(11th SARC 2021 Faculty)

​Consultant
Paeditric ENT and Sleep Department
Heim Pal National Paediatric Institute  
Budapest, Hungary

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Dr Benedek is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology with PhD at Heim Pal National Paediatric Institute (Budapest, Hungary). She is the chair of the Rhinology Section of the Hungarian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Board Member of the Hungarian Sleep Society and Representative of Hungary in the Council of the European Society of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology.

She leads the sleep laboratory at Heim Pal Nat Ped Inst, which covers the full spectrum of paediatric sleep medicine (including sleep apnea, ventilation therapy, narcolepsy, insomnia, RLS, etc).

Dr Benedek focuses on paediatric sleep surgery in her ENT practice (A/T, nasal surgery, tongue base surgery, laryngomalacia and pharyngoplasty techniques). Her main research interests are DISE, postoperative monitoring methods and new surgical approaches in pediatric sleep apnea.