BRC Associate Professor Deafness and Hearing Health
I am an Ears Nose and Throat (ENT) Consultant Surgeon with a sub specialty interest in Otology and Auditory Implants appointed at the Royal National ENT hospital within Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Hospitals Trust. I hold a joint appointment as Associate Professor at the Ear Institute, funded for by the Deafness and Hearing Health Biomedical Research Centre.
My Wellcome Trust funded PhD at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê was in health informatics and clinical decision making. Currently, my research interests include (with funding body or collaborators):
- Artificial Intelligence in the diagnosis of hearing loss phenotypes (Wellcome Trust)
- Developing a National Health Informatics Collaborative for hearing health (NIHR BRC)
- Remotely assessing and developing early biomarkers for ototoxicity in cancer patients (Action on Hearing Loss)
- Role of novel measurement techniques in those with hearing loss (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê BRC)
- Role intra-operative monitoring technology in auditory implantation (Advanced Bionics and Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre)
- Developing core outcome sets for ear related conditions (INTEGRATE)
- Developing on-line hearing health screening and interventions (NIHR PDG)
- Developing tele-otology services (TympaHealth)
- Assessing the predictors and treatment of sudden onset sensorineural hearing loss (Sensorion)