Dr. Mondy Hammad is a consultant ENT surgeon who is well-known both nationally and internationally as an experienced ear and cochlear implant surgeon. He started his training in cochlear implant field back in 1995 in ENT department, University of Wuerzburg, Germany. He then completed his cochlear implant training in University of Freiburg, Germany in 2001, where he also got the German Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery. He is professor of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Cairo University, Egypt. He helped in founding the cochlear implant program in Cairo University, Egypt in 1998. He then founded the first governmental cochlear implant program in UAE in Mafraq hospital in 2008. He was involved in doing almost 1000 implants in Germany, Egypt, and UAE. He also participated as an expert in the field in helping other developing countries like Sudan in establishing their cochlear implant program.
Dr. Mondy has done the highest number of cochlear implant surgery done by one surgeon in the UAE and also the highest number of surgeries done in one center. For instance, he has done 126 cochlear implant surgeries (104 patients of whom 22 bilateral surgeries) from January 2021 till June 2023, which is the largest number of surgeries done in one center by single surgeon in UAE during this period.
He did many difficult revision cases and cases with complex cochlear malformation. He is experienced in hearing and structure preservation surgeries that have proved to bring better hearing results. He did the first bilateral cochlear implant surgery in a child younger than 12 months old in UAE in 2010. He also operated on the youngest child in UAE. He described a novel technique to treat implant site infection without the need to remove the implant.
Dr. Mondy participated in many national and international meetings with lectures and panel discussions about cochlear implants. The cochlear implant program has won the Arab Heath Award for excellence in surgery in 2010). He is a member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance.
Besides cochlear implants, he is also a pioneer in bone anchored and middle ear implants. He did the second transcutaneous bone anchored implant in the Middle East and the first fully implantable middle ear implant in the Middle East in 2012. He did the highest number to date of doing active bone implant (Osia) in UAE.
Besides implant surgeries, Dr. Mondy is an expert in middle ear surgery where he did thousands of cholesteatoma cases other middle ear surgeries such as tympanoplasties, ossiculoplasties and stapedectomies. He is mostly referred to by other doctors in the UAE for difficult ear surgeries including multiple revisions or extension of the disease to the skull base.
His recent work includes the commissioning of the Tarabichi-Mondy Cochlear Implant Center (TMCIC) along with Tarabichi Healthcare led by Dr. Muaaz Tarabichi in collaboration with NMC Healthcare. This center is located in NMC Royal Hospital Khalifa City Abu Dhabi.
