Professor Carl Philpott

Professor Carl Philpott is a leading ear, nose and throat specialist in Norwich and Great Yarmouth whose areas of expertise in rhinology includes chronic sinusitis, smell and taste disorders, allergic rhinitis and endoscopic sinus surgery.

Professor Philpott is a graduate of Leicester University Medical School. He completed his basic surgical training in the University Hospitals of Leicester before undertaking a period of research (2003-4) into developing apparatus for testing the sense of smell, which culminated into his MD thesis.

Professor Philpott’s specialist training was completed in East Anglia and during this time he spent a year at the St Paul’s Sinus Centre in Vancouver, Canada. Here he learnt advanced skills in endoscopic sinus surgery for inflammatory disease of the nose and sinuses as well as tumours of the sinuses and anterior skull base.

He also spent time at the Dresden University Smell and Taste Clinic learning techniques for assessing and researching the sense of smell. Professor Philpott is the Director of the first British Smell and Taste Clinic, established in 2010, where he receives referrals from around the UK.

Professor Philpott is an academic surgeon at the University of East Anglia where he leads the Rhinology and Olfactology Research Group with a number of research projects, including the NIHR funded MACRO Plus study for patients with chronic sinusitis and the NIHR funded ICAST Programme for patients with smell and taste disorders. The results of the MACRO trial were published in the Lancet in 2025 and demonstrated the benefit of endoscopic sinus surgery in the management of chronic rhinosinusitis, especially in those with nasal polyps: MACRO Trial in The Lancet. He has been involved with a number of trials for monoclonal antibodies for chronic sinusitis and has been involved in the national process to make these available to patients through the National Health Service.

He is President of the UK Semiochemistry Network and the Eastern Clinical Research Network Lead for ENT. He is a regular reviewer for various specialty journals as well as being Associate Editor for Clinical Otolaryngology and an Editorial Board member for Rhinology Journal. He has published over 200 journal articles in his field of practice as well as authoring various book chapters and is co-editor of Bullet Points in ENT. He is involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate education at Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia. He teaches on a number of external courses including ones in London, Guildford, Newcastle, Dresden and Vancouver.

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