Course Organiser

Nimesh N Patel MBChB, FRCS, FRCS(ORL-HNS), MSc(Oxon), MSt (Cantab), DIU

I am a consultant Otorhinolaryngologist/Head, Neck and Thyroid surgeon. I trained in Manchester, London and Adelaide. I have completed Masters degrees in Voice and Swallowing (University of Newcastle), Evidence Based Medicine (Oxford University), Genomics (Cambridge University) and a Diploma in Robotic Surgery (University of Lorraine). I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Since August 2004 I have been a consultant surgeon at University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust. I lead the multidisciplinary voice, airway and swallowing services. I am a senior member of the Head, Neck and Thyroid Cancer Multidisciplinary Team. I am a Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton. I am an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton Medical School.

I am past-President of the British Voice Association and past-Treasurer of the Laryngology and Rhinology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. I was Associate Medical Director for Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and Chairman of the Wessex Head and Neck Cancer Team. I served as Chairman of the Head & Neck and Thyroid Cancer Network Groups for the Central South Coast. Until 2009 I was an Honorary Lecturer in Ear Nose and Throat Surgery at University College London. I have served as a trustee of three healthcare charities.

Faculty - past and present

Fabian Sipaul FRCS

Mr Sipaul is a widely experienced Consultant Ear, Nose & Throat (E.N.T.) Surgeon. He has been a consultant at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust since 2014. He is also a visiting consultant at Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester. He has full registration with General Medical Council (GMC) (registration number: 5195961) and is a member of the British Medical Association. He is up-to-date with his 5-year cycle revalidation with GMC. Apart from general E.N.T. problems and surgeries, his other interest is in the diagnosis and management of head & neck cancer. He is also part of a handful of surgeons in the region who perform sialendoscopy to relieve/reduce obstruction of salivary gland ducts either from stone/s or narrowing. This can help to avoid excision of the salivary gland itself. More often than not, he is able to reassure patients with vague throat symptoms that there is no concerning pathology in a single clinic visit by performing flexible naso-pharyngo-laryngoscopy. He was the first surgeon in the world to devise, develop and describe a particular type of skin flap in front of the ear to reconstruct cutaneous defect in and around the opening of the ear canal. Together with his Specialist Registrar at that time, he published the paper entitled 'A one-stage method for external auditory canal reconstruction: the Wessex pre-auricular flap' in the European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck diseases journal (Aug 2022).
Mr Sipaul has been described by patients and colleagues as a caring, compassionate and consummate clinician.

Edgardo Alberado BSc (Chem) MBBS MD (Bristol) MRCS DOHNS

Surgeon-Scientist, ENT Surgeon Salisbury Distric Hospital, Wiltshire, UK

Kwamena Amonoo-Kuofi FRCS

Mr. Kwamena Amonoo-Kuofi is a highly qualified consultant ENT surgeon based in Hampshire and specializes in a range of general pediatric and adult ENT problems. These include obstructive sleep apnoea, tonsillitis, and adenoid problems, as well as sinus disease and treatments, glue ear, perforation of eardrums, vertigo, and pinnaplasty.

Mr. Amonoo-Kuofi trained and qualified from St George’s Hospital Medical School (University of London), graduating with a distinction in Endocrinology and Medical Neurosciences. He completed his ENT specialist training in the Eastern and London Deaneries. He has extensive training in ENT having worked at a number of leading hospitals including Royal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital (RNTNE), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Cambridge University Teaching Hospital, and Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London.

He completed an advanced specialist pediatric fellowship at the Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, and was subsequently appointed as Consultant ENT Surgeon at University Hospital Southampton.
Other areas of interest include medical education and simulation training.

He is keen to support the medical profession and speaks and presents at various regional and national events.

Mr Chadwan Al Yaghchi is a consultant laryngologist at the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction, Imperial College Healthcare, London. He manages the full spectrum of laryngeal disorders with specialist interest in airway stenosis and complex dysphagia. He completed his higher surgical training in Ear Nose and Throat in the London North Thames regional rotation and laryngology training at Charing Cross Hospital.

Mr Al Yaghchi holds a PhD in Molecular Oncology from Queen Mary’s University of London studying oncolytic viruses in head and neck cancers. In addition, he has an active clinical research program in voice, airway and swallowing disorders. He published multiple book chapters, 30 peer-reviewed articles and is currently the Laryngology Section editor of Scott-Brown's Otolaryngology textbook.

Chadwan Al Yaghchi PhD FRCS

Chaitanya Gadepalli MD FRCS(ORL-HNS)

Consultant ENT Surgeon and Laryngologist, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

Lisa Fraser FRCS(ORL-HNS)

Consultant ENT Surgeon and Laryngologist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Graduated from the University of Bristol (2003) followed by higher surgical training in Wessex Deanery. She completed an Interface Fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery in Oxford (2015 - 2016).

She was appointed a Consultant at the John Radcliffe in 2016 and is a core member of the Oxford Head and Neck MDT.

She is a member of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists, and ENT UK. She completed an LLM in Healthcare Law and Ethics in 2011 at De Montfort University and is a member of the Clinical Ethics Advisory Group at Oxford University Hospitals. She is a member of the Tracheostomy Management Group at the Trust.

David Howard was appointed Professor of Head and Neck Oncology at Imperial College London in 2008 and remains Honorary Consultant ENT/Head and Neck Surgeon at Imperial and UCLH NHS Trust Hospitals, Korle-Bu Hospital, Accra, and KCMC Hospital, Tanzania.

He trained at Kings College & St George’s Medical School, London, UK.

Obtaining a BSc in Physiology 1968, MRCSLRCP 1972, MBBS 1972, FRCS Eng, 1978 in General Surgery and FRCS(Ed) in Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck 1980.

He became a Senior Lecture in Laryngology and Honorary Consultant ENT/Head and Neck Surgeon in 1984 on the Professorial Unit at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Grays Inn Rd, London, UK.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Ghanaian College of Physicians and Surgeons and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK.

He has published widely on all aspects of head and neck disease.

He assisted the introduction of endoscopic laser resection for malignancy of the upper aerodigestive tract, midfacial degloving approaches and craniofacial resection for sino-nasal neoplasia in the UK.

He has had a long-standing interest in the aetiology and management of laryngotracheal trauma and stenosis, undertaking the first tracheal homograft in the UK in 1990. Along with Guri Sandhu he initiated the first multidisciplinary group in basic and clinical research on trauma and stenosis in the upper airway at the RNTNEH.

He has taken an active interest throughout his career in teaching and training and was awarded two ‘Clinical Teacher of the Year’ awards from University College London, and a ‘National Lifetime Teaching Award’ from ENT-UK.

As a result of his work on the Postgraduate National Diploma in ENT for General Practitioners, he was made an Honorary Professor of Middlesex University in 2006.

He has thirty-five years of experience as a Founder Member and Trustee of the Rhinology and Laryngology Research fund, UK No.327811.He also currently chairs the Exovent Respiratory Support Device Charity, UK No. 1189967 and is a Trustee of the Xtreme-Everest Medical Research Charity, UK No.1166919. He was a Founder Member and first President of the British Laryngological Association.

He has been an invited Visiting Professor to many centres in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Africa. He has trained over thirty international fellows and has worked regularly in India in the 90’s and Africa for over twenty years at the Korle-Bu Hospital in Ghana and seven years at the KCMC Hospital in Tanzania.

Professor David J Howard FRCS

Mr Julian McGlashan is a leading consultant ENT surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham and an Honorary Consultant Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham. He sees patients at his private Voice Clinic at Queen's Medical Centre Campus.

Mr McGlashan specialises in voice and throat disorders including those of singers and other professional voice users. Diagnostic assessment includes videolaryngoscopy including stroboscopy, voice recording analysis and laryngeal electromyography as required. Joint assessment with a specialist voice therapist can also be arranged on request. He performs surgery on the vocal cords (phonosurgery) and thyroplasty medialisation surgery and benign head and neck surgery.

Mr McGlashan studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, University of London where he graduated with an MBBS. He trained in ENT surgery at St Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital, London and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists. At NUH he was the Trust lead clinician for cancer services (2004-9) and lead of Multidisciplinary Team of Head and Neck Cancer (2008-20). In 2018 his work for the Trust was recognised in the NUH honours with the "Clinical Star" award.

His previous national roles include: past president of the British Voice Association (1998-9) and council member of the British Laryngological Association (2015-18). In the East Midlands he was Chair of the Thyroid and Endocrine Tumour site Network Group (1998-2008) and has recently stepped down as Chair of the East Midlands Network Expert Clinical Advisory Group (ECAG) on Head and Neck cancer (2016-20).

He has written many articles in medical journals and other publications over the years and lectures at national and international conferences and training courses in Voice and Laryngology. He is current focus in research is in voice assessment and the singing voice. here...

Julian Mclashan FRCS

Mr John Rubin, MD FACS FRCS is a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at The Royal ENT & Eastman Dental Hospitals, a part of The University College London Hospital NHS FondationTrust. He is past clinical director (2003-2009), is chair of the consultant forum and is lead clinician of the voice disorders unit.

He is honorary consultant ENT surgeon at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, also a part of the University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where he co-chairs the voice and swallowing unit with Dr Ruth Epstein. He is also honorary senior lecturer at the Ear Institute, University College London.

Mr. Rubin’s particular interests lie in voice disorders and laryngeal surgery. He has written extensively, including several books, numerous articles and chapters, and regularly lectures on voice-related topics. Mr. Rubin has served in multiple capacities on many international editorial and scientific boards and committees.

Mr. Rubin is current president of the Collegium Medicorum Theatri (2009-2012 term) and is a founding member of the European Academy of Voice. He is past president (2010-2011 Term) of the British Voice Association. He has also been appointed as honorary assistant treasurer to ENT UK.

Mr John Rubin, MD FACS FRCS

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