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Gunta Segliņa is the Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and an Assistant Professor at Riga Stradins University. Her research focuses on pediatric and adult ENT disorders, immunological mechanisms in ear/nose/throat pathologies, and microbiome analysis in clinical contexts. She holds expert status in Clinical Medicine from the Latvian Council of Science (2018–2028).
Education: Expert qualifications in Clinical Medicine from the Latvian Council of Science (2018–2021; 2022–2025; 2025–2028).
Research interests include cholesteatoma biology, cytokine profiling in ENT infections, microbiome dynamics in pediatric otitis media, and surgical innovations like platelet-rich fibrin membranes for myringoplasty. She has supervised 7 PhD projects since 2018, focusing on topics like nasal polyps endotyping, adenoid microbiota, and vocal disorder prognosis via laryngeal EMG.
Key research outputs since 2023 include studies on pediatric myringoplasty outcomes, microbiome comparisons in secretory otitis media, and vocal fold pathology mechanisms. She actively presents at international conferences on topics like microbiome analysis and surgical techniques.
Grants/Projects: Current projects (2021–2027) explore myringoplasty materials, steroid treatment effects in nasal polyps, and microbiome analysis of adenoids/middle ear effusion. She has secured funding for 5 active projects and 2 completed ones.
Labs/Teams: Leads the Otorhinolaryngology research group at Riga Stradins University, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects involving immunology, microbiology, and surgical innovation.
