ANTONY NARULA

MA MB BChir FRCS FRCS (Ed)

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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 am an associate professor at Unversity of Plymouth School of Medicine and Dentistry. 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 of the Royal College of Surgeons from 2008 to 2013

  • Bradshaw Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons 2014

  • Past President of ENT UK

  • Past President of British Society for Otology, The Association of Otolaryngologists and Young Consultant Otolaryngologists

  • Vice President and founding fellow of Confederation of British Surgery

  • Chairman of the Board, Global Tracheostomy Collaborative

  • Chairman of the Board, MediX Cover Ltd

  • Current Associate Professor, Plymouth University School of Medicine & Dentistry

MEMBERSHIPS

 

GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL

Registration No 2489236

MEDICAL PROTECTION SOCIETY

Membership No 121567

 

Fellow Royal College of Surgeons, England

 

Fellow Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh

 

Fellow Royal Society of Medicine

 

Member of ENT UK, Past President

 

Member European Academy of Otology

 

Member American Academy of Otolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery

 

Member of the British Society for Otology, Past President

Member British Association for Paediatric Otolaryngology

Member British Medical Association

Honorary Visiting Professor Middlesex University 2003-2017

Associate Professor Plymouth University School of Medicine & Dentistry

Co-founder and Vice President of the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative.

Current Research and Innovation

My main interest is clinical research. I have published many peer review papers including systematic review on thyroid swellings (Annals of Royal College of Surgeons) and also on Tonsillitis (BMJ Clinic Evidence).

I have published on quality of life in children undergoing surgery for obstructive symptoms. Ongoing work in this area is in children having adenotonsillectomy.

I also have a research and development interest in airway interventions and have published in this area.

I was approved by Imperial College to introduce new technique of translaryngeal tracheostomy (2009). I carried out 15 in 2010 and ran training courses for specialists from across England and Wales (2010-2014).

I have written three recent book chapters including ABC of ENT (BMJ Publishing) and Complications of Head & Neck Surgery (IC Publishing).

I am a reviewer for several ENT journals; editor in chief CME Bulletin till 2006.

Important recent publications

  1. McGrath BA, Wallace S, Lynch J, et al. Improving tracheostomy care in the United Kingdom: results of a guided quality improvement programme in 20 diverse hospitals [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 31]. Br J Anaesth. 2020;S0007-0912(20)30279-8. doi:10.1016/j.bja.2020.04.064

  2. Walker, A & Awad, Zaid & Tolley, Neil & Narula, Antony & Bradley, Patrick. (2016). Non-clinical demands are pushing experienced UK surgeons out of the NHS. International Journal of Healthcare Management. 9. 1-6. 10.1080/20479700.2015.1125081.

  3. Heywood, Rebecca & Ifeacho, S.N. & Narula, Antony. (2016). Effect of intratympanic steroid administration on sensorineural hearing loss associated with acute otitis media. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 130. 532-5. 10.1017/S0022215116001110.

  4. Okhovat, Saleh & Fox, Richard & Magill, Jennifer & Narula, Antony. (2015). Sudden onset unilateral sensorineural hearing loss after rabies vaccination. BMJ Case Reports. 2015. bcr2015211977. 10.1136/bcr-2015-211977.

  5. Varadharajan, Kiran & Narula, Antony. (2015). Paediatric ENT Standards in London: are we delivering a first class service?: A Repeat Audit. Clinical otolaryngology: official journal of ENT-UK; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery. 41. 10.1111/coa.12457.