The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Marcus Atlas

Director/Winthrop Professor
Ear Sciences Centre

Contact details

Address

Ear Sciences Centre
The University of Western Australia (M509)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6380 4990

Fax

9346 3637

Email

marcus.atlas@earscience.org.au

Qualifications

MB BS W.Aust., FRACS

Biography

Professor Marcus Atlas is a surgeon and scientist specialising in ear and hearing disorders involving applied clinical and basic science research. He holds the Foundation Chair in Otolaryngology at the University of Western Australia and is the Head of the Ear Science Centre and Director of the Ear Science Institute Australia. He was invited to join the Court of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons in 2006 and holds or has held numerous committee positions in State, National and International organisations including incoming Chairman of the Committee in Otology and Neurotology of the Otorhinological Societies. He is currently the Editor of the Australian Journal of Otolaryngology Supplement in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and serves on national and international editorial boards.

Under Professor Atlas’s Directorship, ESIA and the ESC have participated in international multicentre trials in utilising innovative implant or hearing devices and outcome studies involving ear surgery and audiology. A unique cell biology and molecular biology research programme involving the human tympanic membrane and inner ear has attracted significant research and clinical interest. His expertise in surgery of the ear and skull base, clinical research and otolaryngology education has allowed him to represent Australia at numerous international clinical and basic research meetings. He has produced over 100 international publications, two editions of a book and a three volume DVD ear surgery manual used throughout the world.

Publications

Yuen HW, Boeddinghaus R, Eikelboom RH, Atlas MD. The relationship between the air-bone gap and the size of superior semicircular canal dehiscence. Otology and Neurotology. Accepted Jan 2009

Rajan GP, Leaper MR, Goggin LA, Atlas MD, Boeddinghaus R, Eikelboom RH. The effects of superior canal dehiscence on the labyrinth: does size matter? Neuro-otology. 2008 Oct;28 (7):972-5

Goggin LS, Eikelboom RH, Edwards GS, Maric V, Anderson J, Sander P, James MA, Ricciardo PM, Broeze C, Atkins L, Rajan GP, Atlas MD. Noise levels, hearing disturbances, and use of hearing protection at entertainment venues. The Australian and New Zealand Journal and Audiology. 30(1):50–58; 2008

Baguley DM, Atlas MD. Cochlear implants and tinnitus. Prog Brain Res. 2007;166:347-55

Singh V, Atlas MD. Obliteration of the persistently discharging mastoid cavity using the middle temporal artery flap. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007 Sep;137(3):433-8

Rajan GP, Diaz J, Eikelboom RH, Atlas MD, Shelton C, Blackham R, Huber AM. Eliminating the limitations of manual crimping in stapes surgery: mid-term results of 90 patients in the Nitinol stapes piston multicentre trial. Laryngoscope. 2007 Jul;117(7):1236-9

Santa Maria P, Atlas MD, Ghassemifar R. Chronic tympanic membrane perforation: a better animal model is needed. Wound Repair Regen. 2007 Jul-Aug;15(4):450-58.

Goggin LS, Eikelboom RH, Edwards G, Atlas MD. Clinical decision support systems and computer-aided diagnosis in otology, Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007 Apr;136(S4):S21-6.

Subramaniam K, Eikelboom RH, Marino R, Atlas MD, Rajan GP. Patient’s quality of life and hearing outcomes after stapes surgery. Clinical Otolaryngology 31, (4), 273-279

Anandacoomaraswamy KS, Dutton N, Rajan GP, Eikelboom RH, Atlas MD, Robertson T. Utilisation of fresh human tympanic membranes for structural analysis and cytokeratins immunocytochemistry implementing resin techniques. ACTA Otolaryngologica. 126(2):149-53.

Funding received

2009 SHRAC, Health Department of WA, $172,100.00
A study of the cost and benefits of the introduction of ear telehealth in the Pilbara, Eikelboom R, Ellis I, Larson A, Atlas MD, et al.

2009 Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation, $70,000.
Atlas MD, Eikelboom. Animal & Human Trials of a Tympanic Membrane scaffold – Surgeon Scientist scholarship/Brett Levin.

2008-2010 Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation, $269,135.
Atlas MD, Marano R, Ghassemifar R: Genetics of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss.

2006-2008 Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation, $195,000.
Atlas MD, Eikelboom RH: The development of animal model for chronic ear disease – Surgeon Scientist Scholarship/Peter Santa Maria.

2006-2008 Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation, $157,256.
Atlas MD, Reza Ghassemifar: The tympanic membrane and its molecular and cellular responses to structural injuries.

2005-2006 Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation, $154,694.
Eikelboom RH, Atlas MD: Using a laser to weld tympanic membranes: a tissue-laser interaction study.

Languages

English

Memberships

Member (2005-) Politzer Society, The International Society for Otologic Surgery and Science

Member (2005-) American Otological Society

Member (2001-) Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)

Member (2000-)American Academy of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS)

Member (1992-)Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery (ASOHNS)
(including WA Branch)

Member (1989-) Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)

Member (1981-) Australian Medical Association(AMA)

Honours and awards

Athelstan & Amy Saw Medical Scholarship, University of Western Australia (1991)

Current external positions

Director, Ear Science Institute Australia

Useful links

www.earscience.org.au

RFCD

FOR 110315, SEO 920107

Research profile

Research profile and publications