Profile

Qualifications

• Graduated Leeds University Medical School, UK , 1980
• FRCS Edinburgh 1986
• FRCS England 1987
• CCST Royal College of Surgeons of England 1992
• Senior Lecturer Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, 1989 – 1992
• Clinical Director ENT Consultant, Royal Blackburn Hospital 1992 – 2010
• Consultant Rhinologist & Cochlear Implant Surgeon, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, 2010 – 2016
• Associate Professor, Al Faisal University Medical School, Riyadh, 2013 – 2016
• Visiting Professor, Kuwait, Sudan, Bahrain, 2007 to date

Prizes

National Clinical Excellence Bronze Award holder from November 2007

George Seed Prize awarded by the North of England Otolaryngology Society. 17^th November 1987 for a paper on “The use of a New Local Anaesthetic in Otology”.

Downes Temporal Bone Dissection Prize – 3^rd Place – January 1988

Madras ENT Research Foundation (MERF) Medal for lecture on Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, Tamilnadu, India, 16/9/2000

European Association of Facial Plastic Surgery Fellowship awarded for best abstract at British Academic Conference on Otolaryngology (BACO), July 2003, Birmingham, UK.