Dr Georg M. Sprinzl is Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and leads the Implant team of the Department in St. Pölten. He is the Head of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery in St. Pölten, Lower Austria. He focuses on stapes surgery, surgery of active middle ear implants and cochlear implantation as well as on neurotologic and oncologic skull base surgery. Sprinzl was trained in skull base surgery by Prof. Werner in Marburg/Germany and was responsible for the cochlea implantation program.

He developed in Innsbruck an ongoing educational program for surgeons with interest in Cochlea implantation and Vibrant Sound Bridge Surgery. Sprinzl is PI of several clinical trials in the field hearing implants. He pays special interest to sound localization and speech perception in bilateral users of Vibrant Sound bridge. Additionally he has established a novel animal cochlea implant model in sheeps together with the Inner Ear Laboratory (Prof. Dr. A. Schrott-Fischer), University of Innsbruck, Austria. His main research interests are on the development of new atraumatic cochlea implant electrodes for the restoration of residual hearing and the development of new bone anchored hearing aids.

Prof. Dr. Sprinzl has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He regularly publishes articles in various areas of otolaryngology, otology and head and neck oncology. Due to the development of the educational program in the fild of hearing implant surgery he is heavily involved in clinical teaching in many countries.

Starting in January 2014 Professor Sprinzl worked part time as a consultant at the hearlife clinic and mediclinic in Dubai, UAE. Since July 2016 he is a visiting professor at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary.