Professional experience
• More than 30 years of experience• Consultant ENT Surgeon, Harley ENT Practice, London (present)
• Consultant ENT Surgeon, Charing Cross Hospital, London (present)• Consultant ENT Surgeon, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London (present)• Consultant Paediatric ENT Surgeon, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London• Consultant ENT Surgeon, University College Hospital, London
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Sub-specialties
• Adult and paediatric ENT problems• Voice/hoarseness
• Airway stenosis• Sleep related breathing problems (sleep apnoea and snoring)• Swallowing disorders• Nasal obstruction/sinusitis• Hearing and Ear Problems• cough• Exercise induced laryngeal obstruction
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Positions in public associations
• ENT Surgeon to the Royal Society of Musicians• Co-Founder and Treasurer to The British Laryngological Association
• Assessor at The Royal College of Surgeons England• NICE specialist advisor• President of the Section of Rhinology and Laryngology, Royal Society of Medicine
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Teaching posts
• Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London• Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College London
• Faculty in the surgical skills course at the Royal College of Surgeons• Postgraduate teacher at The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital
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Education
• London Hospital Medical School, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery MBBS, 1990• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (General Surgery, ENT and ORL-HNS), 1994, 1996, 2001.
• Doctorate in Medicine (MD), University College London, 2011• Honorary Fellow Royal Academy of Music (hon FRAM) from 2017
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Publications and conferences
• Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction: a common and overlooked cause of exertional breathlessness. Br J Gen Pract. 2016 Sep;66(650)• Laryngological presentations of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: case series of nine patients from two London tertiary referral centres. Clin otolaryngol. 2016 Jul 19. doi: 10.1111
• Assessment and management of laryngeal mucous membrane pemphigoid: our experience in six patients and a proposed severity scale. Clin otolaryngol. 2016 May 14• Feasibility of vocal fold abduction and adduction assessment using cine-MRI. Eur Radiol. 2016 Apr 16.• Disease homogeneity and treatment heterogeneity in idiopathic subglottic stenosis. Laryngoscope. 2016 Jun;126(6):1390-6• RegenVOX: a phase I/II clinical trial of stem cell-based tissue-engineered laryngeal implants cytotherapy. 2015 Jun; 17(6): S69• Simulation in laryngology training; what should we invest in? Our experience with 64 porcine larynges and a literature review. Clin Otolaryngol. 2015 Jun;40(3):269-73• Caustic ingestion injury of the upper aerodigestive tract in adults, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2015 May; 97 (4): 304-307• Long-term outcomes of rituximab therapy in ocular granulomatosis with polyangiitis: impact on localized and nonlocalized disease. Ophthalmology. 2015 Mar 4.• Impact of unilateral vocal fold mobility impairment on laryngopulmonary physiology. Clinical Otolaryngology, 2014 Aug;39(4):210-5• CONFERENCES• 18th International Pulmonology Symposium, Leuven, Belgium, 23rd Feb 2017 MDT working in benign laryngotracheal stenosis (invited speaker)• Danish Laryngological Society Meeting, Copenhagen, 27th January 2017 chronic cough (invited speaker)• Cutting Edge Laryngology Conference, London, 4 - 6th October 2016 (organiser and section chair)• European Laryngological Society Meeting, Genoa, 8 - 11th June 2016, laryngotracheal stenosis and round table on lasers in laryngology (invited speaker)• 19th WCBIP/WCBE World Congress, Florence, 8 - 11th May 2016, endoscopic airway surgery and tracheal resection techniques (invited speaker)• Garsington Voice Day, Garsington Opera, London, 16th May 2016, laryngeal pathologies (invited speaker)• ‘Edwin Nash Broyles Lecture’ – modern management laryngotracheal stenosis, 22nd February 2016 John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA(invited to give posthumous lecture)• Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, 11th-15th December 2015 Workshop (lectures and keynote speaker)• World Academic Conference in Airway Management, Dublin, 12 - 14th Nov 2015, airway surgery past and present (keynote speaker)• ‘William Montgomery Lecture’ – new innovations in airway surgery, May 2013 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, USA (invited to give posthumous lecture)
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Prizes and awards
• Isshiki Award – Oct 2016, awarded by the British Laryngological Association for outstanding contribution to laryngology• British Journal of Surgery prize for the best paper presented at the 2015 British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeon's annual meeting (co-author). 'Is it possible to use acoustic analysis of a patient’s voice, measured on a mobile device, to accurately exclude vocal cord paralysis after thyroid surgery?'
• BMA Medical Book awards – commendation for the book ‘Practical Laryngology’• Corresponding Fellow to the American Laryngological Association – May 2012 (the only practising British laryngologist to receive this award)• European Respiratory Medicine Meeting, Sept 2007, 1st prize for research presentation
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Professional membership
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England• Royal Society of Medicine
• British Laryngological Association• American Laryngological Association• ENT-UK• European Laryngological Association• British Medical Association
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