Chief Editor: Reda Kamel1

General Secretary: Ahmed Ragab2

General Coordinator: Baliegh Hamdy3

Scientific Board: Ashraf Khaled,4 Mahmoud Abdel Aziz,5 Mohamed Ghonaim,6 Tarek Ghanoum,7 Mahmoud Youssef8

Phoniatrics Chief Manager: Mahmoud Youssef8

Phoniatrics Executive Manager: Dalia Mostafa9

Assembly Board: Nirvana Gamal El Din Hafez Helmy,8 Rasha Shoeib,8 Yossra Abdel Naby Sallam10

Grading Board (In alphabetical order)

Ahlam Abdel Salam,11 Omayma Afsa,12 Ahmad Ali,13 Essam Eldin Aref,14 Ahlam A. N. El-Adawy,14 Asmaa El-Dessouky,15 Iman ElRouby,16 Safaa ElSady,8 Aisha Fawzy,9 Dalia Mostafa,9 Aya Sheikhany9

Reviewing Board: Hasnaa Othman,17 Yomna Hassan,8 Hedia Serry8 , Shaimaa Kabil¹⁸, Eatemad Nabil¹⁹

Ministry of health ECPG steering committee: Reda Kamel¹, Ahmed Ragab², ‎Mahmoud Abdelaziz⁵, Mohamed Elsheikh⁵, Sherif Guindi²⁰, Ali Mahrous²¹, Louay ‎Sharkawy¹, Saad Elzayat²², Ahmed Abu Elwafa²³, Iman Sadek²⁴, Mahmoud Yousef⁸, ‎Samir Halim²⁵, Ahmed Mustafa²⁶, Ehab Seifein²⁶, Ashraf Lotfy²⁷, Mohamed ‎Eltokhy²⁸, Tamer Azzam²⁸‎

1Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Cairo University,

2Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Menoufia University,

3Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Minia University,

4Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Beni-Suef University,

5Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Tanta University,

6Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Mansoura University,

7Audiovestibular Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Cairo University,

8Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/Ain Shams University,

9Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Cairo University,

10Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine for girls/ Al-Azhar University,

11Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Sohag University,

12Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Mansoura University,

13Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Beni-Suef University,

14Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Assuit University,

15Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Menoufia University,

16Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department/ Hearing and Speech Institute,

17Phoniatrics Unit, Medical Studies for Children Center at the Faculty of Postgraduate Childhood Studies, ¹⁸Audiovestibular Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine  for girls/ Al Azhar University,

¹⁹ Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine  for girls/ Al Azhar University.

²⁰ Otorhinolaryngology Dep. Faculty of Medicine/Fayoum University

²¹ Otorhinolaryngology Dep. Faculty of Medicine/Al Azhar University

²² Otorhinolaryngology Dep. Faculty of Medicine/Kafr El Shiekh University

²³ Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Assiut University

²⁴ Audiovestibular Unit, Otorhinolaryngology ‎Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Ain Shams University

²⁵ Otorhinolaryngology Department Mataria Teaching Hospital

²⁶ Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine/ Hearing and Speech ‎Institute

²⁷ Otorhinolaryngology Department Secretariat of the Ministry of Defense,

‎‎²⁸ Otorhinolaryngology Department Ministry of Interior Medical Services Sector

Specialties related to this guideline: Audiology and paediatrics

Sincere thanks extend to the secretaries: Samar Hussein and Eman Ragab, as well as the editor: Mohamed Salah