Eva Karltorp

Eva Karltorp is MD and PhD and specialist in otorhinolaryngoly and audiology. Since 2004 she is in charge of the Cochlear implant team at the ENT clinic at Karolinska university hospital. The cochlear implant team has both an adult and a pediatric program. The pediatric program serves more than 50 % of the Swedish population, with around 30-40 new children receiving implants each year. Up to now 490 children have received implants at our centre and of those 270 are bilaterally operated. Eva´s main research interests are cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection as a cause of hearing deficit, early cochlear implantation and bilateral implantation. Her most recent project is about hearing impaired children with congenital CMV infection. The study will hopefully contribute to the question to which extent the children have other neurological disabilities beside their hearing impairment.