Department of Ear, Nose & Throat, Head & Neck Surgery

Dr. Ksenia Aaron is a senior specialist in otology and skull base surgery.

Dr Aaron graduated with honors from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in 2011, earning her medical degree. She completed her residency in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Southern California (USC), USA.

Between 2018 and 2021, she completed an advanced Clinician Scientist fellowship in neurotology and skull base surgery at Stanford University, USA, one of the leading centers worldwide for ear and skull base surgery.Dr. Aaron subsequently served as an Assistant Professor at Cleveland Clinic, USA, for five years.

She currently serves as a senior attending physician in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Rambam Health Care Campus, where she directs the Ear and Cochlear Implant Unit.In addition she is the Head of the Otology and Neurotology (Skull Base Surgery) Fellowship Program.

Dr. Aaron performs a broad range of advanced ear and skull base procedures, including:

• Cochlear implantation and bone conduction hearing implants, including OSIA, Sentio, and Ponto systems.
• Resection of ear and temporal bone tumors.
• Acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma) surgery – removal of tumors involving the vestibulocochlear nerve, which may present with sudden or asymmetric hearing loss.
• Repair of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks originating from the ear.
• Surgical treatment of pulsatile tinnitus.
• Tympanoplasty – repair of tympanic membrane perforations using a transcanal approach.
• Ossiculoplasty – reconstruction of the middle ear ossicles using a transcanal approach.
• Canaloplasty – surgical reconstruction or widening of the external auditory canal.
• Balloon Eustachian tuboplasty – balloon dilation of the Eustachian tube.
• Endoscopic ear surgery.
• Stapedotomy – surgery to improve hearing in patients with otosclerosis.
• Mastoidectomy – surgery for the removal of cholesteatoma.
• Surgery for superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SSCD).
• Insertion of ventilation tubes (ear tubes) in adults under local anesthesia.