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Dr Rohani Omar

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  • Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

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6041776

Professional background

Dr Rohani Omar is a consultant audiovestibular physician at UCLH. She runs adult neuro-otology clinics at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals. Dr Omar trained in medicine at Cambridge University and completed general medical training on the London Hammersmith rotation leading to the MRCP. She then obtained an MD(Res) in Neurology from UCL and was awarded a Royal College of Physicians/Dunhill Medical Trust Research Fellowship for her research work on frontotemporal dementia and non-verbal cognitive processing as a Clinical Research Fellow at the Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square.

Dr Omar subsequently completed specialist training in audiovestibular medicine in London. She gained a distinction for the PGCert in Otology and Audiology (UCL) and has received numerous competitive presentation and audit prizes. She is a recipient of the British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians (BAAP) Pat Jobson Prize for her contribution to services and research in Audiovestibular Medicine, and the Dafydd Stephens Audit Prize for her work into paediatric genetic sensorineural hearing loss. She is the local Postgraduate Medical Education Lead for Audiovestibular Medicine, an interviewer for specialist trainee selection and is on the audiovestibular medicine curriculum development committee.

Specialties

Research interests

Dr Omar is an honorary associate professor at the University College London (UCL) Ear Institute. Her research interests are in cognitive neuroscience and the interface between hearing loss and cognition in older adults, leading several research projects at UCLH/UCL in this field.

She has published widely in high-impact peer reviewed journals and written a book chapter on music cognition in dementia.

Languages spoken

Cantonese, Malay

Publications

Most recent/relevant publications

  1. Omar R, Motha R. Chapter 58: Audiovestibular Medicine. In: So you want to be a brain surgeon? The essential guide to medical careers. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022
  2. Omar R, Rajput K, Sirimanna R, Rajput S, Pagarkar W. The audiovestibular profile of Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome. J Laryngol Otol. 2021 Nov;135(11):1000-1009.
  3. Omar R. Chapter 5: Music cognition in frontotemporal dementia and non-Alzheimer’s dementias. In: Baird A, Garrido SM, Tamplin J, eds. Music and dementia: from cognition to therapy. 1st ed. New York: Oxford University Press USA; 2019
  4. Omar R. Faints, fits and funny turns for the physician. Clin Med (Lond). 2015 Dec;15(6):557-61.
  5. Omar R, Mahoney CJ, Buckley Ah, Warren JD. Flavour identification in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2013 Jan;84(1):88-93.
  6. Omar R, Hailstone JC, Warren JD. Semantic memory for music in dementia. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 2012 June;29(5):467-77.
  7. Omar R, Henley SM, Bartlett JW, Hailstone JC, Gordon E, Sauter DA, Frost C, Scott SK, Warren JD. The structural neuroanatomy of music emotion recognition: Evidence from frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Neuroimage. 2011 Jun 1;56(3):1814-21.
  8. Omar R, Hailstone JC, Warren JE, Crutch SJ, Warren JD. The cognitive organization of music knowledge: a clinical analysis. Brain, 2010 Apr;133(Pt 4):1200-13
  9. Omar R, Rohrer JD, Hailstone JC, Warren JD. Structural neuroanatomy of face processing in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2011 Dec;82(12):1341-3.