Consultant Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon

Educated at Epsom College, Surrey, Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital, London I qualified in 1979. I became Registrar and Senior Registrar at Nottingham and Leicester before being appointed as Consultant ENT Surgeon in Leicester in 1989. I worked there for 12 years becoming Associate Medical Director before moving to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London where I was a Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and an Honorary Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster and Royal Brompton Hospitals. In 2014, I took early retirement to concentrate on my private practice and further develop my medical charity work. I now lecture in most parts of the world including North America, Australia, South Africa, Europe, India and the Middle East.

I was awarded an Honorary Professorship from Middlesex University in 2003. I have also been national clinical lead for ENT for the NHS Modernisation Agency, winning a Beacon award in 1999 for waiting list management and innovation. I have an interest in medical politics and served as president of both the Association of Otolaryngologists in training and the Young Consultant Otolaryngologists. I was editor of the CME Bulletin Otolaryngology and also instigated a diploma course for GPs to learn more about Otolaryngology (Dip ENT).

• Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 2004 to 2014
• Honorary Treasurer from 2008 to 2013
• Bradshaw Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons 2014.