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Current NHS consultant posts held

Substantive ENT consultant in East Lancashire Hospital Trust in 2008

He offers a wide range of ENT procedures in his practices rooms at
BMI Beardwood Hospital (Blackburn)
BMI Gisburne Park Hospital (Gisburn - Clitheroe)

Special interest in Head & Neck and Thyroid surgery
Regional leader for ‘Head & Neck cancer’ and ‘Thyroid cancer’ groups

Research interests

See www.entblackburn.com
Published extensible in medical journals
Guest speaker in national and international conferences
Surgical demonstrator of novel surgical techniques in Europe, America and Asia

Awards received

Runner-up for the category of Improving Patient Safety at the Annual START Awards
Royal Blackburn Hospital. December (2010)


1st Prize for best presentation
Semon’s Club Meeting. Guy's Hospital. London (2006)

European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS)
11th British Acad. Conf. Otolaryngology (BACO). Birmingham (2003)

2nd Prize for best poster presentation
5th International Conference on Pediatric ORL. Graz (Austria)(2001)

Publications

See www.entblackburn.com for detailed publications

“Return to theatre in secondary post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage: a comparison of coblation and dissection techniques.” . Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2012 Feb

“Neurological picture. Pott's puffy tumour: harbinger of intracranial sepsis”. .J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2011 May

“Postoperative drainage in head and neck surgery.” Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2010 Nov

“Solid variant of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in the head and neck region: a case report of a diagnostic dilemma in a head and neck fine needle aspiration clinic”. Acta Cytol. 2010 Sep-Oct

“Airway compromise secondary to vagus nerve stimulator: case report and implications for otolaryngologists”. J Laryngol Otol. 2010 May

“The community management of chylous fistula using a pancreatic lipase inhibitor (Orlistat ®)”.
Laryngoscope. 2006 Oct

“Randomised Controlled Study comparing post-operative pain between Coblation Palatoplasty and Laser Palatoplasty”. Clin Otolaryngol. 2006 Apr

“Randomized controlled trial comparing Merocel® and RapidRhino® packing in the management of anterior epistaxis”. Clin Oto. Aug 2005


“Adult and Pediatric Coblation Tonsillectomy. Double Blind Randomized Controlled Studies and Complication Rates in 800 Patients”. in ‘Surgery for Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome’. By M Fabiani. Kugler Publications

“Transient quadriplegia following re-puncture of tracheo-oesophageal fistula”. J Laryngol Otol. 2004 Sept

“Coblation vs. Dissection tonsillectomy: post-operative complications”. Laryngoscope November 2003. 113(11): 2010-2013