Best ENT Surgeons in Chelsea, London, UK

Mr Raj Lakhani is a Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon (adult and paediatric) with a specialist interest in Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery. 

Mr Lakhani completed his undergraduate medical training at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He was awarded the Drapers Company Prize for academic achievement and the Research Advisory Board Award for his intercalated Bachelor's degree in Sports & Exercise Medicine. To further his skills he trained in specialist tertiary and quaternary rhinology centres including Guy’s & St Thomas’ and St George's Hospitals. Further specialist training was undertaken through observerships at the world-renowned Hirslanden Klink, Zurich and the Clinica del Viso in Milan. Mr Lakhani further enhanced his skills through an additional year of dedicated specialist training in rhinology and facial plastic surgery at St George's Hospital.

Mr Lakhani has developed a strong interest in clinical research. He has published almost 30 peer-reviewed articles and has given 50 scientific presentations worldwide. He has been awarded prizes for his clinical research including the ‘Best Short Paper’ prize from the Royal Society of Medicine. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Medicine national ‘Trainee of the Year’ award.

Mr Lakhani strives to deliver the highest standards of patient care. He regularly receives positive feedback from patients regarding his excellent communication and listening skills. This, in combination with his clinical acumen, allows him to provide care of the very highest standard.

Mr Joseph Manjaly is a Consultant Otologist, ENT and Auditory Implant Surgeon, appointed at the Royal National ENT Hospital in central London. He specialises in ear/hearing problems for adults and children and regularly receives referrals from other ENT specialists for advanced care of these conditions. 

Whilst Mr Manjaly is fully qualified to treat all types of ENT problems, by choosing to focus solely on ear and hearing surgery he is able to offer specialist assessment and treatment options beyond what is typically available in a standard ENT clinic. His internationally-renowned fellowship training now means that he can offer advanced surgical skills and a full range of hearing rehabilitation options for all types of hearing loss. He also enjoys being able to provide accurate and effective treatment for people with ear discharge, discomfort, tinnitus and dizziness. He also manages problems relating to children's tonsils and adenoids in his regular paediatric clinic.

Mr Manjaly has a very busy tertiary NHS practice at the renowned Royal National ENT Hospital, part of University College London Hospitals. He also provides visiting specialist input to the Microtia & Craniofacial Multidisciplinary team at the Royal Free Hospital, London. His training was on the North Thames ENT High Surgical Training programme, undergoing extensive training in all aspects of ENT surgery at a number of centres, including Great Ormond Street Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust, London North West University NHS Trust, and the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital.

After being awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons he began to specialise in the area of hearing restoration for adults and children. He was then selected for a prestigious fellowship in Otology and Implant surgery at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, where he was able to expand his skills in complex ear and hearing surgery. He has held several positions within the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training including acting as a representative on the councils of the British Society of Otology and the Royal Society of Medicine Otology Section. 

Away from the clinic, he is a keen Aston Villa supporter and also performs semi-professionally in a function band at weddings and conferences in the UK.

Professor Birchall is one of the world's leading laryngeal specialists with 150 papers and £2M in laryngeal related grant income every year.
He trained in London, Liverpool and Australia and was Professor in Bristol, Liverpool and now UCL London, as well as having an honorary position at the University of California Davis, where he co-led the team which performed the world's second documented laryngeal and tracheal transplant.

Video and telephone consultations are now available with Mr Arora.                               

Mr Arora PhD FRCS is an award-winning ENT, Airway Head & Neck Consultant Surgeon and leader in minimal invasive Head and Neck Surgery. He pioneered Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in the UK and runs a specialist tertiary referral practice in Airway and Head & Neck Cancer Surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London. His department is an international centre of excellence for ENT-Head and Neck conditions and he is an international authority in robotic surgery and Tracheostomy, recognised for his work in healthcare quality improvement having founded the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative - a worldwide network of top healthcare institutions that The National Institute for Health Research highlights as an exemplar for patient safety.

He treats all forms of ENT diseases in adults and children and seeks to replicate his first-class ENT service for patients in the private sector. Asit regularly receives excellent feedback from the patients he treats and his services come highly recommended by patients and colleagues alike.

He completed specialist ENT training in world-famous London hospitals including The Royal Marsden Hospital, University College Hospital London, Imperial College London and Great Ormond Street. 

His specific skills and subspecialty training includes 3 Head & Neck Fellowships in Thyroid, Head & Neck cancer centres of international repute in London and Germany. He pioneered Robotic Head and Neck Surgery in the UK and established the 1st training program in TORS. This was the focus of his PhD at Imperial College London that culminated in several clinical trials, 15 peer-review publications, 6 prestigious research prizes and 4 research grants. He remains at the forefront of surgical innovation and clinical translation in ENT- Head & Neck Surgery. 

He has extensive clinical, research, education and training experience which includes over 50 peer-reviewed publications, 30 abstract publications, 10 book chapters, 20 research awards, 25 invited keynote national/international lectures, over 90 national/international presentations and grants awards of 1.1 million pounds. He leads the Education Committee of the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative responsible for international webinar delivery to thousands of healthcare professionals in over 20 countries. He is the founder/director of 7 postgraduate courses including the internationally renowned London Head & Neck Dissection course which he set up in 2006. He is the author of 2 specialist textbooks in Thyroid & Parathyroid Disease and Robotic Head & Neck Surgery.

Mr Arora is flexible in terms of where he can see patients

Mr Parag Patel is a adult and paediatric Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant and Surgeon at New Victoria Hospital. He has a special interest in allergy, otology including balance, tinnitus and diseases of the nose and sinuses.

Mr Dwivedi is a central London Consultant ENT & Head and Neck surgeon. He offers a complete range of adult and paediatric general and specialist ENT care. His specialist interests include management and surgical treatment of all aspects of benign and malignant head neck conditions including thyroid/ parathyroid, salivary glands and larynx.

His training included rotations through major teaching hospitals in London, South East of England and East Scotland where he gained a wide range of experience in treating all aspects of general adult and paediatric ENT disorders. After gaining a national training number in the UK, he went on to be awarded the certificate of completion of higher surgical training for the UK, in addition to a vast experience of high volume training in India where he initially graduated. He also completed two advanced fellowships in head and neck surgery at Cambridge University Hospitals and Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth.

He gained further experience by visiting centers of excellence in the USA and Canada, including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre-New York, Mount Sinai Hospital-Toronto, University of Alberta and University of Western Ontario, Canada. This brings an international outlook to his current clinical practice.

Following a consultant appointment at QEUH Glasgow, he was appointed as a consultant ENT/ head and neck surgeon at prestigious University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and was also conferred an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University College London in 2019. He is a core member of UCLH Head Neck and Thyroid Multidisciplinary Teams.

He is very prolific in research, academics, teaching and training and has successfully led several research projects within the UK and overseas. He completed a multi-award winning PhD in “Head and Neck Surgery” from the prestigious Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, London. He has won over 15 national and international awards.

Mr Dwivedi’s academic record stands out amongst his peers. He has published over 80 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed more than 20 chapters in major Head Neck and ENT books, including the well-known textbooks “Scott-Brown’s Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery” and “Principles and practice of Head Neck Surgery and Oncology”. He has also co-edited two Head Neck Surgery books and is co-founder and series-editor of the book series “Head and Neck Cancer Clinics”.

He serves on the editorial board of several specialty journals and has been scientific reviewer for more than 40 peer-reviewed journals including BMJ, JNCI, Cancer, Head Neck, Laryngoscope, Oral Oncology and Surgical Oncology.

Mr Dwivedi is on the faculty of various national and international ENT & head and neck courses and meetings and has delivered over 50 lectures globally. He is a member of over 20 professional & scientific bodies within the in UK and abroad. He is also an accredited trainer and regularly mentors trainees and medical students. He has co-supervised several MS/MSc and PhD students.

Above all, Mr Dwivedi’s colleagues would testify to his kind, personably and diligent nature that characterise his consultation style.

Video and telephone consultations are now available with Mr Dwivedi. 

Mr Dwivedi is flexible in terms of where he can see patients. 

Mr Peter Rhys Evans is a renowned Consultant Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgeon with a clinical interest in voice and vocal cord disorders, swallowing disorders, salivary gland and thyroid issues. He works at The Harley Street Clinic, The Lister Hospital and The Princess Grace Hospital, all part of HCA Healthcare. He previously held a Consultant post at the Royal Marsden Hospital, where he was Chief of ENT/Head and Neck Surgery.

He began his career with his Medical Degree from St Bartholemew's Hospital in 1971 and completed an extensive training scheme in his chosen field. He spent a year at the University of Paris doing a post-graduate degree while working as a junior Head and Neck surgeon at the Gustave Roussy Institute in Paris. He was awarded his first Consultant post in 1981. Mr Rhys Evans has been heavily published throughout his career, with over 250 publications including five books, and has also received the 'Best International Publication in Otolaryngology' for one of his textbooks. He regularly presents at national and international level and is a significant contributor to the field of ENT.

He is also the Founder and Executive Chairman of Oracle Cancer Trust, the largest charity in the UK raising funds for head and neck cancer research, which has raised over £6 million since he started it in 2001 and currently has 15 PhD research projects.

One of his long-term research interests has been in paleoanthropology and early human evolution. He has recently published a book: 'The Waterside Ape: An Alternative Account of Human Evolution' and since 1992 he has been involved with 3 programmes on this controversial subject with Sir David Attenborough who joined Mr Rhys Evans at his recent book launch and has been a great supporter of his work.

Mr Mohiemen Anwar is a London trained ENT surgeon. He has gained his National Training

Number in North Thames deanery back in 2007. He was trained in high calibre

centres like Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, The Royal Marsden

Hospital, The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear, Charing Cross Hospital, St

Mary’s Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and The Royal London Hospital. Following

his success in being appointed as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in

2016, he was awarded the Certificate of Completion of Training in 2017. In

2017, he was successfully appointed as a substantive consultant ENT surgeon at

Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. He has developed an interest in

Rhinology, sinonasal pathologies and anterior skull base surgery during his

training and dedicated his latter years of training into developing his skills

in the field of rhinology, facial-plastics and anterior skull base surgery. He

has gained a vital experience in both open and endoscopic anterior skull base

surgery during the last year of his training/fellowship working at the

skull-base and advance sinus surgery firm at the Royal London Hospital.

He was appointed as an NHS consultant in London’s Chelsea and Westminster NHS

Foundation Trust in 2017. His NHS work is mainly based at West Middlesex

University Hospital and to a lesser extent Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

His NHS practice include both adult and paediatric ENT services. Although his

main subspeciality interest is rhinology, allergy, nasal surgery, and

endoscopic sinus surgery, he kept a broad interest in all aspects of ENT

surgery, not least hearing loss, dizziness, tinnitus, voice disorders, throat

discomfort, snoring, sleep disorders, neck lumps and thyroid disorders. Since

his appointment into his current NHS post, he has pushed to develop the ENT

practice at the Trust by introducing new technologies and new procedures to the

department, not least balloon sinoplasty and endoscopic ear surgery. He is also

working on developing a bone anchored hearing aid services at the Trust and a

joint voice clinic.

Mr Anwar lives in west London, married to an Arabic folk singer, has a 3-year-old

daughter and expecting his second child in July 2018. He is a keen tennis

player and has won several junior tennis trophies for his club, school and

university.

Research and Academia:

Between the years 2008 and 2011, he had taken time off his training to concentrate on

his research in the field of Molecular Oncology and Immunotherapy at Bart's

Cancer Institute. In 2014, his novel work in combining oncolytic virotherapy

and immunotherapy in the treatment of solid tumours was honoured by Queen

Mary’s University of London with a Doctorate of Philosophy degree (PhD) in the

field of molecular oncology and gene therapy. He has an on-going interest in this

field of research and currently involved in few clinical trials.

Mr Anwar, has published in peer-reviewed journals, and presented in international,

national and local academic meetings.

Community and GP clinics:

At Teddington Memorial Hospital, he runs a weekly outreach ENT clinic, focusing on

delivering a local and accessible ENT services to the local population,

including hearing assessment and hearing aid dispensing. At the same hospital,

he runs a monthly joint GP clinic, whereby two local GPs with specialist

interest in ENT would present him with patients they have reviewed previously

in their corresponding clinics and deemed necessary for a specialist opinion;

without the need for referral to secondary care centres.

Teaching and Training:

He has a specialist interest in training and teaching. Mr Anwar is the main

organiser of Bart's ENT training courses. Since 2007, he has organised 11 FESS

& Rhinoplasty courses, 11 Head and Neck dissection courses and 2 Temporal

bone dissection courses. He has helped set-up Bart's Introduction to ENT course,

aimed at junior trainees interested in joining a career in ENT.

These courses throughout the years have complemented ENT surgeons’ training and have

provided them the certification in order to achieve their competencies. Many of

them are now back to be faculty members of the courses, having been candidates

on these courses previously.

Charity work:

Mr Anwar is passionate about charity and medical aid. In 2016, he spent a month in

Syrian and Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, whereby he was part of a

massive charity mission in the assessment and the rehabilitation of children

with hearing disability. During that mission, more than 2000 children were

assessed in various camps around Jordan and an excess of 500 hearing aids were dispensed

to those children. Local health authorities were trained to maintain those hearings

aids and a follow up visit is planned in 2018.

Please find out more here http://www.anwar-ent.com/

Mr Charles East is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon based in London, UK. He graduated from the University of London, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1980 and was the recipient of the prestigious Hallett Prize by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His training was completed in ENT at Oxford University College Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital. Following his training he was awarded a research fellowship at the University of Washington Seattle, USA. There he spent 1 year studying Facial Plastic Surgery before returning to the UK.

He has a specialist interest in Nasal and Facial Plastic Surgery as well as Endoscopic minimally invasive sinus and skull base surgery. He is highly experienced in both aesthetic and functional plastic surgery of the nose and an expert in nasal and sinus disease.

Charles is the current UK Vice-President of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and the Chairman of Facial Plastic Surgery UK

In his personal time Mr East enjoys playing sport and travelling.

Vin Paleri was appointed as Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals in 2005, and as Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at Newcastle University in 2015. In 2017, he took up the post of Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon at The Royal Marsden Hospitals, the world's first cancer hospital famed for its cutting-edge research. He is also Professor of Robotic and Endoscopic Head and Neck Surgery at the Institute of Cancer Research, London.

He is one of the few surgeons in the United Kingdom with expertise in Transoral Robotic Surgery and Transoral Laser Microsurgery for head and neck cancers and has accrued the largest experience in Transoral Robotic Surgery in the UK. He has pioneered a new robotic technique to remove radiorecurrent and radioresidual cancers and is the first surgeon in the UK to perform robotic free flap reconstructions.

His research interests are primarily on the processes of care, decision making and functional outcomes in head and neck oncology. He has published over 170 papers, reviews and book chapters on head and neck oncology. He is the chief

investigator for the NIHR funded TUBE trial and contributes as co-investigator and principal investigator for several other national trials. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the research council for the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists, and as member of several national bodies. He co-edited the fourth and fifth editions of the UK National Head and Neck Cancer Multidisciplinary Management Guidelines, and the section on "Head and Neck Disease" for the forthcoming 8th edition of Scott-Brown's Otolaryngology, the leading multi-volume multi-author textbook in the specialty in the world. He is an Associate Editor for Head and Neck, the top ranked journal in the field, Senior Reviews Editor for the

Journal of Laryngology and Otology, one of the oldest journals in the field (est. 1887) and serves on the editorial board for several other leading journals in the specialty.