The First Vertigo Congress
in Romania
with International and Multidisciplinary Participation

Crowne Plaza Bucharest
September 18-20, 2025

Meet the speakers

Leonardo Manzari

He was born in Rome on 10\12\1962.

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Università Cattolica del S.Cuore in Rome in 1988.

He specialized in Otorhinolaryngology and Cervico-Facial Pathology at the University of L'Aquila degli Abruzzi in 1993.

He was "Registrar" in the ENT department of the University of Edinburgh - Scotland (UK) in the years 1995 - 1996.

From 2007 up to today he was an associate researcher at the University of Sydney (Australia) - Vestibular Research Laboratory - directed by Prof. Ian S. Curthoys; of which he was responsible for the clinical validation of research in the otoneurological field.

He was President of the Italian Association of Freelance Otolaryngologists (AIOLP).

He is one of the founding members of the Italian Association of Otolaryngology and Geriatrics (AIOG).

He was and is a professor of "Otoneurology, Vestibology and Vestibular Rehabilitation" at the Master in Posturology at the University of Pisa.

Former professor of "Otoneurology, Vestibology and Vestibular Rehabilitation" at the Master in Posturology at the University "La Sapienza" of ROME.

He was and is director, professor and head of audiology and vestibology courses organized as part of the Continuing Medical Education project of the Ministry of Health by various providers.

He is the author of numerous scientific articles and monographs in national and international peer-review journals in the otoneurology and posturology fields.

He has taken part as a speaker and chairman in numerous national and international scientific conferences including the “Barany Congress”, in 2006 in Uppsalla (Sweden), in 2008 in Kyoto (Japan), in 2010 in Reykjavik (Iceland), in 2012 Uppsalla (Sweden), in 2014 Buenos Aires (Argentina), in 2018 Uppsalla (Sweden), in 2022 Madrid (Spain) and in 2024 Uppsalla (Sweden).

Speaker at the IFOS Congress (World Congress of Federations and Societies of Otorhinolaryngology) in 2002 in Cairo Egypt and in 2005 in Rome and at the VI World Congress on Meniere’s Disease, held in Kyoto in November 2010.

He is a member of the Board of the “Prosper Meniere Society”.

He is a member of the Italian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and the Italian Society of Audiology and Phoniatrics.

He is a member of the Barany Society.

He is a member of the Italian Association of Freelance Otorhinolaryngologists (AIOLP)He is the author of over 90 publications in “Refereed International Journals”

In 2023 he was included in the list of the 2% of the best scientists in the world by Stanford University. His name appears in the “World's Top Most Influential Scientists, 2023”: a ranking of the best researchers in the world in all fields of science. The ranking is drawn up by the prestigious US university of Stanford and published last October by the Dutch publishing house Elsevier. In 2022 alone, there were 167 international citations in three scientific areas: otorhinolaryngology, neurology and internal medicine.