Fellowship feedback for North Thames trainees

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  • Humera Babar-Craig,
  • Consultant , Royal Surrey Hospital – Guildford
  • Alex Tsikoudas,
  • Consultant,York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
  • Peter Hellings,
  • Consultant, Professor,Leuven University Hospital, Belgium

  • Ha Chau,
    Consultant, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Essex

/ 12 month period – (normally starting August) / - Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery / Advanced Rhinology
- Significant experience in endoscopic sinus surgery including basic frontal sinus/sphenoid approaches required.
- Ideally post CCT, although post exams final year SpR could apply / Endoscopic Skull Base Centre – Amsterdam (ESA) – - Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam , The Netherlands
Advanced Rhinology (Professor Fokkens )
Endoscopic Skull Base – Rhino-oncology (C Georgalas )
Email Fellowship Secretary; Margalith vanHuiden-ten Brink: / Operating:
Eight –dedicated rhinology operating sessions per week (Monday all day – 2 parallel theatres, Wednesday all day two parallel operating theatres, Friday pm ). Fellows are expected to operate rather than observe during these sessions
Clinics:
Specialist outpatient clinics: Monday am (Multidisciplinary Endoscopic Skull Base Clinic :Neurosurgical/ENT/endocrinology clinic),
Tuesday am (Multidisciplinary upper/lower airway and CF clinic)
Friday (Rhinology integrated “day admission”clinic including same day CT, SPT, acoustic rhinometry, rhinomanometry and PNIF measurements)
Research projects:
As part of the
Global Allergy and Asthma
European Network (GALEN)
Multiple basic and clinical research projects running (osteitis, outcomes in frontal sinus endoscopic surgery, endoscopic management of sinonasal malignant tumours, visual outcomes in endoscopic versus open management of skull base meningiomata.
A number of multicenter randomized control trials. Significant basic science reserahc (5 active PhDstudents in basic science research)
Clinical experience:
Leading internationalcentre in management of frontal sinus pathology , with >100 frontal sinus approaches performed per year (largest series of Endoscopic Lothrops published in literature)
80-100 skull base tumoursand Sinonasal tumoursoperated per year (including malignancies,)
Significant experience in patients with CF, immunodeficiencies and ciliarydysmotility syndromes. /
  • Yes
  • (Christos Georgalas )

North Thames ENT Fellowship information

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