Mr Kalpesh Patel

Mr Kalpesh Patel is a consultant ENT surgeon based in London. He is the founder and director of the London ENT Clinic and Mr Rhinoplasty, and his specialist interests are nasal and sinus surgery, which includes treatments and conditions such as rhinoplasty, septoplasty, septorhinoplasy, sinusitis, blocked noses, hoarseness, nasal deformity, and nasal polyps.

Mr Patel qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in 1984, and during his time as an undergraduate, he was awarded the Sidney Scott prize in Otolaryngology. He spent some time at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, teaching anatomy and physiology, and has been an honorary senior lecturer in ENT surgery at Imperial College London for the last 25 years. He completed junior training in general surgery, neurosurgery, and plastic surgery before undertaking higher surgical training in ENT surgery at King’s College, the Royal Marsden, and St Mary’s Hospitals. He was made a consultant ENT surgeon in 1995.

Mr Patel was one of the first surgeons in the UK to utilise minimally invasive surgical techniques to treat sinusitis, called balloon sinuplasty. In addition to his clinical practice, Mr Patel lectures on nasal surgery at national and international meetings. He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters. He was the inaugural president of the British Society of Rhinoplasty Surgeons, a first-of-its-kind organisation that was created by a network of ENT, plastic, and maxillofacial surgeons.