Professional background

Consultant ENT / head & neck surgeon University College Hospital, London

Training

  • Qualified 1982, University College London and University College Hospital with junior posts in surgery; medicine; accident and emergency; neurosurgery and plastic surgery before ENT training. 
  • ENT Training started in 1985 as a senior house officer at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital.
  • Registrar 1990 -1993 at The Charing Cross Hospital
  • Senior registrar at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham and Derby Royal Infirmary    

Current appointments

  • Consultant ENT / head & neck surgeon University College Hospital, London
  • Consultant ENT /head and neck surgeon Wellington Hospital
  • Council member, Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • Chair JCIE Board for Otolaryngology - FRCS examiner
  • Professor of ENT Surgery, DMH, Pune, India
  • Medical advisor Fundamental VR
  • Associate director of education UCLH Learning Hospital

Previous Appointments

  • Consultant, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital ( 1993 – 2005 )  
  • ENT tutor, Raven Department of Education, at The Royal College of surgeons of England
  • Chair, Education & Training Committee of ENTUK

Educational Activity

  • Course convenor and faculty member of more than 10 courses and frequent lecturer at National and international meetings ( UK, Europe, Gulf states and India ).  

Main Interests

  • Head and neck oncology
  • Benign disease of head and neck
  • Parotid surgery
  • Airway management.
     

Research interests

  • Head and neck surgery, including benign and malignant conditions of thyroid
  • Parotid, larynx and neck
  • Airway management including tracheostomy care
  • Surgical voice restoration