I am a Consultant ENT surgeon, Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Senior Surgeon at Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge University HospitaI. I founded the Department of Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery which has an international reputation and is one of the two largest units in the UK.
I trained at The Royal London Hospital and qualified from London University in 1971. I was appointed in Cambridge in 1981 following training in Otology andNeurotology under the tutelage of Andrew Morrison, Britain’s first skull base surgeon. I was awarded a TWJ Fellowshipy at Stanford University in California, USA in 1979.
I specialise in complex ear disease receiving many tertiary referrals from other consultants, however, I also manage all forms of ear pathology, deafness, childhood glue ear, dizziness and ear discharge. I deliver a high quality service to my patients and analyse all of my personal results in order to optimise surgical outcome. Multidisciplinary team working has been central to patient management and I work closely with hearing and balance scientists in the management of balance disorders, tinnitus and hearing loss.
As a neurotologist and skull base surgeon I have developed this specialist area over 30 years and have one of the largest series of acoustic neuroma patients in the world and have operated on well over one thousand cases.