Joined the Otology group of the Causse Ear Clinic in Colombiers, France on January 1991. Since then he is otologist surgeon with special interest on stapes surgery and ossicular reconstruction of the middle ear. He has performed more than 7300 operations for otosclerosis, more than 4000 operations for ossicular reconstruction and more than 260 operations for congenital malformation of the ossicular chain.
Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeon of Edinburgh (UK)
on September 2005 and Honorary Member of the Indian Society of Otology on November 2006.
Member of several ENT societies such as the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), the European Academy of Otology & Neuro-Otology (EAONO), the Otosclerosis Study Group, the Prosper Meniere Society, the Mediterraneen Society of Otology and the Politzer Society.
Since 2005 he is the General Secretary and co-founder of the Live International
Otolaryngology Network (LION: www.lion-web.org) which is promoting free HD videoconferencing advanced e-learning program on middle ear surgery. Live surgery is broadcasted every year from several well known Institutions worldwide including the Causse Ear Clinic.
He was Instructor at the AAO-HNS for many years. On October 4 2009 he has been awarded by the Board of Directors of the AAO-HNS a certificate of honor for exceptional services in the scientific program continuing education courses and instructional courses of this Society.
He is on the editorial board of several scientific journals such as the Otology & Neurotology Journal, the Journal of the Mediterraneen Society of Otology, and also serves as a reviewer for a number of professional publications.
Since 21 years he runs a annual advanced otology course in June at the Causse Ear Clinic where delegates from all parts of the world are participating every year.
He is a yearly invited guest speaker and guest surgeon in many countries worldwide and has designed several middle ear prostheses and published new techniques in ossicular reconstruction.
He has published many publications on middle ear surgery in several scientific journals and wrote chapters in several books on surgical technique in Otology.