The 2026 Senturia Lecture will feature renowned neurotologist Alex Huber, MD, professor and chair of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
Huber’s clinical interests are in otology and skull base surgery. After medical school, he worked in different clinical and research institutions in Switzerland (University Zurich), USA (Stanford University Medical Centre and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary) and UK (Guy’s and St. Thomas Hospital Trust, Kings College, London). His research interests are focused on middle ear mechanics, cochlear and middle ear implants as well as vestibular Schwannoma and paraganglioma studies.
Title: TBA
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Time: 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Location: Ogura Lecture Hall, Room 8502, 8th Floor Midcampus Center on the Washington University Medical Campus, 4590 Nash Way
Ben Harlan Senturia
The Senturia Lectureship was established in 1977 by the St. Louis Otological Foundation.
Ben Harlan Senturia was a native of St. Louis and obtained both his undergraduate degree (1931) and his medical degree (1935) from Washington University. Following his internship and residency at McMillan Hospital, he was appointed to the otolaryngology faculty at Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Senturia served in the United States Air Force from 1942 to 1945 and was assigned to the research section of the School of Aviation Medicine where he conducted research in external otitis and noise-induced hearing loss.
Following his military service, he returned to St. Louis to practice and teach. In 1972 he became president of the American Otological Society. He was chosen as guest of honor by the society in 1976 and received its prestigious Award of Merit in 1980.
Senturia Lecturers
2025 – J. Thomas Roland, MD
2024 – Jay Rubenstein, MD, PhD
2023 – David Haynes, MD
2022 – Thomas Lenarz, MD, PhD
2021 – Michael Hoa, MD
2020 – Howard W. Francis, MD, MBA
2019 – Yuri Agrawal, MD
2018 – John L. Dornhoffer, MD, FACS
2017 – Marlan R. Hansen, MD, FACS
2016 – John W. House, MD
2015 – Robert F. Labadie, MD, PhD
2014 – Lorne S. Parnes, MD
2013 – John P. Carey, MD
2012 – Bruce J. Gantz, MD, FACS
2011 – Joseph B. Nadol, Jr, MD
2010 – Lawrence R. Lustig, MD
2009 – Saumil N. Merchant, MD
2008 – Karen J. Doyle, MD, PhD
2007 – Paul R. Lambert, MD
2006 – Dennis S. Poe, MD
2005 – Michael J. McKenna, MD
2004 – Debara Lynn Tucci, MD
2003 – D. Bradley Welling, MD
2002 – Anil K. Lalwani, MD
2001 – Lloyd B. Minor, MD
2000 – Michael M. Paparella, MD
1999 – Richard A. Chole, MD, PhD
1998 – Jens Thomsen, MD
1997 – Mario Sanna, MD
1996 – Malcolm D. Graham, MD, FACS
1995 – William F. House, MD
1994 – Julian M. Nedzelski, MD, PhD
1993 – Aina Julianna Gulya, MD, FACS
1992 – B. Hill Britton, MD
1991 – Mitchell K. Schwaber, MD
1990 – Robert I. Kohut, MD
1986 – Robert A. Jahrsdoerfer, MD
1985 – Bobby R. Alford, MD
1984 – Mansfield F. W. Smith, MD, MS, FACS
1983 – Derald E. Brackmann, MD
1982 – Brian F. McCabe, MD
1980 – William F. House, MD
1979 – Charles D. Bluestone, MD
1978 – Victor Goodhill, MD
1977 – Richard R. Gacek, MD