Profile Summary

Medical Qualification: MS (ENT), Diploma (Otorhinolaryngology)

Designation: Consultant, ENT

Areas of expertise:

• Cochlear implants
• Head and neck surgery
• Laser surgeries
• Endoscopic sinus surgery
• Cleft lip and palate surgery
• Snoring and sleep apnoe treatment and surgery including surgeries of palate and tongue base
• Tinnnitus and vertigo research
• Rhinoplasty and skull base surgery
• Endoscopic surgery for pituitary tumours and optic nerve compression
• Endoscopic middle ear surgery
• Endoscopic DCR
• Endoscopic CSF leak repair
• Regular ENT surgeries such as tonsillectomy, septoplasty, tympanoplasty, mastoidectomy and turbinoplasties

Introduction:

ENT consultant at jaslok hospital, Passed out from gs medical college and kem , post graduation from Nair hospital and TN medical college and Jawaharlal Nehru medical College and trained in Europe for sleep apnoea, paediatric ent , endoscopic sinus surgery , lasers in otolaryngology and base skull surgery , tinnitus and vertigo diagnosis and treatment , Middle ear surgery and stapedectomy , and ENT facial plastic surgery, prior to becoming a consultant ENT surgeon.

Awards/Fellowship

Have won several best paper awards for research in ENT, and delivered several guest lectures and invited talks on cochlear implants, lasers in ENT, Functional Endoscopic sinus surgery, Use of image guided systems in ENT , traditional versus newer techniques in management of tinnitus and vertigo, use of technology in otolaryngology and organised and conducted surgical workshops on the same .

Co edited textbook modern concepts of neurotology and performed recorded and produced over 100 teaching and demonstration videos for students . DNB Otolaryngology teacher since 2011. Member of AOI india and Aoi Bombay branch .