National Key Medical Discipline, Guangdong Provincial Key Discipline, Training Base for Master's and Doctoral Students, and Postdoctoral Research Station. The discipline boasts a first-class medical, research, and teaching talent team in China. It currently has 6 doctoral supervisors and 6 master's supervisors. There are 27 in-service undergraduate physicians, 46 nurses, 5 technicians, and 1 teaching assistant, including 9 professors, 6 associate professors, and 8 with intermediate professional titles. Among the talent team, 11 hold doctoral degrees (including 3 postdoctoral fellows), and 9 hold master's degrees. Three individuals serve as vice presidents or standing committee members (including group leaders) of national professional technical associations, and four serve as chairpersons or vice chairpersons of Guangdong provincial professional technical associations. Since the establishment of the Otorhinolaryngology Hospital of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in 2003, it has grown rapidly. It is now divided into four tertiary disciplines: Otology, Rhinology, Laryngology, and Allergy. The inpatient ward has 120 designated beds, with 14 professor-led outpatient clinics and specialized clinics for Otology, Rhinology (Allergy), Laryngology (Voice), and Head and Neck Tumors. In 2006, the daily outpatient volume was 514 visits, with an annual outpatient volume of 133,943 visits, an annual inpatient volume of 2,675 cases, and an annual surgical volume of 2,768 procedures. The specialty is equipped with advanced hardware facilities: 26 comprehensive treatment units, an ear function examination room, three nasal endoscopy rooms, an electronic laryngoscopy room, a voice examination room, and an allergy laboratory, providing comprehensive and high-quality services to patients. The specialty possesses strong technical capabilities, enabling comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of common diseases as well as critical, urgent, and severe cases in otorhinolaryngology. Particularly in the following areas, it has unique technical advantages and characteristics both domestically and internationally: functional endoscopic sinus surgery (with the highest number of completed cases in China, reaching 13,000), endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy, transnasal endoscopic orbital tumor resection (pioneered internationally), lateral skull base petrous apex tumor resection (pioneered internationally), middle skull base sellar region tumor resection (including pituitary tumor resection), complex cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea repair, complex frontal sinus surgery (modified Lothrop procedure), tympanoplasty and hearing reconstruction, cochlear implantation, acoustic neuroma resection, speech rehabilitation for deaf-mute patients, laryngeal and cervical esophageal tumor resection with voice reconstruction, pediatric and adult snoring surgery, allergen monitoring, and immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis. The specialty has now become the largest, most comprehensively specialized, and strongest otorhinolaryngology department in terms of medical care, education, and research in southern China. Since the establishment of the Institute of Otorhinolaryngology Science at Sun Yat-sen University in 2003, clinical anatomy laboratories, molecular biology laboratories, clinical hearing laboratories, sleep breathing laboratories, and allergy laboratories have been successively established, forming a robust research platform. Scientific research has advanced rapidly, with the acquisition of 2 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 4 other national projects, 14 provincial and ministerial projects, and 4 bureau-level projects, totaling 1.355 million yuan in funding. A total of 115 papers have been published, including 4 SCI-indexed papers in international journals, 21 papers in the Chinese Medical Association series of journals, and 87 papers in other core journals. Additionally, 3 monographs have been independently authored, and contributions have been made to 10 other monographs. Notably, clinical and basic research on nasal endoscopic minimally invasive surgery has won one second prize of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award (2002) and one first prize and one third prize of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (2004). Each year, the discipline trains and provides 10 to 20 outstanding master's and doctoral students for the country, who are highly favored by employers at all levels of society. It also receives over 20 physicians annually from across the country for further training, and in recent years, physicians from developed countries such as Europe and the United States have come to study and observe. Additionally, the discipline regularly holds temporal bone dissection courses, skull base dissection courses, and especially nasal endoscopic minimally invasive technique courses, which are highly praised by trainees both domestically and internationally! Associate Senior Staff: Zhu Xiaolin, Gan Jiayu, Li Jian