Matthew Yung MS PhD FRCS
President of the British Society of Otology

Matthew Yung is the consultant otologist at the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust. His PhD degree (University of Liverpool) was on the study of ‘Aminoglycoside Ototoxicity’ and his MS degree (University of London) was on the ‘Yung Vent’. His clinical interest is in mastoid and middle ear reconstructions, as well as stapes surgery, He runs an ‘International Course on Mastoidectomy and Tympanoplasty’ and a regional temporal bone dissection course in Ipswich. He also establishes an ‘International Common Otology Audit System and Database’ which is currently used by surgeons from 21 countries.

Chris Aldren

Chris Aldren is a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon in Berkshire working at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough and the Princess Margaret Hospital Windsor www.windsor-ent.com.
His clinical interest is in adult and paediatric middle ear and mastoid surgery. He has particular experience in primary and revision stapes surgery. Chris teaches widely and runs an annual international ear surgery course at Wexham Park Hospital each May. As well as being on BSO council, he is a board member of Live International Otolaryngology Network www.lion-web.org and on the committee of otology neurotology database www.ondb.org. He is the current secretary to the academic committee of BACO 2009 and a past president of the Young Consultants in Otolaryngology YCOHNS. Chris is married with 3 children and is a keen violinist.

Anil Banerjee

Anil Banerjee is a Consultant ENT Surgeon and Assistant Medical Director at University Hospitals of Leicester and Consultant ENT Surgeon at The London Road Clinic (www.londonroadclinic.co.uk). He trained in the UK at Nottingham and Leicester and in Australia as Senior ENT Fellow at the Royal Brisbane Infirmary. His research interests include tinnitus, balance disorders and middle ear disease. He served as Editor of the medical journal - 'The Otorhinolaryngologist' until 2008 and was previously President of Young Consultants in Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. He has served as AOT and then YCOHNS representative on the SAC, and as Secretary to the Otology Section at the Royal Society of Medicine. He continues to lecture on balance problems and ear disease at national and international meetings.

David Bowdler

David Bowdler is a Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon at University Hospital Lewisham, South East London and is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer to UMDS. He is doubly qualified in general surgery and ENT surgery, and has practised as a Consultant Surgeon. He has a special interest in otology, in particular chronic ear disease and middle ear reconstruction, including otosclerosis. He is an authority on technologies in middle ear surgery especially the otoendoscope, laser and facial nerve monitoring. He has lectured and written extensively in these areas, both in the UK and internationally.

Musheer Hussain

Musheer Hussain is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at Ninewells Hospital & Tayside Children’s Hospital Dundee and Reader in Otolaryngology at the University of Dundee Medical School. My specialist interests are in Otology / Neurotology and in the care of hearing impaired children. I was TWJ Fellow at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. I have published over 70 papers and I examine for several universities, the college and the intercollegiate board. I sit on the councils of ENT-UK, the BSO and the Scottish ORL society. I am a member of the SAC, Specialty Advisory and the Intercollegiate Specialty Boards in Otolaryngology. I play golf badly and fish with friends who usually have better luck.

Richard Irving

Richard Irving Is the current secretary of the BSO. Richard is based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Children's Hospital in Birmingham. He trained in ENT in London and Cambridge and prior to moving to Birmingham was Clinical Instructor in Neurotology in San Francisco. During training he obtained a thesis in molecular genetics and he continues to publish widely on subjects related to the ear and hearing. His clinical practice encompasses middle ear surgery, implantation Otology, the management of skull base tumours and acoustic neuroma.

Tom Martin

Tom Martin is an SpR in the West Midlands and the current AOT otology representative. He has research interests in a number of fields of otology and neurotology including ossiculoplasty, BAHA, acoustic neuromas and paragangliomas

Gerard O’Donoghue

Gerard O’Donoghue graduated from University College, Cork in Ireland and undertook his training in Otolaryngology in London and Oxford. He was a Clinical Fellow at University Hospital, Boston, USA and was a TWJ post-doctoral research Fellow at the auditory research laboratories of the University of California, San Francisco. He is Professor of Otology and Neurotology at the University of Nottingham and Queen's Medical Centre NHS Trust in Nottingham. He has a special interest in the treatment of inner ear disorders, especially cochlear implantation and skull-base surgery. He established the Nottingham Cochlear Implant programmes, one of the largest research-active services of its kind in Europe. He works closely with the MRC’s Institute of Hearing Research, and is co-director of the National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing of the National Institute of Health Research. He is founder and Vice-President of the Ear Foundation , a major educational charity in the UK concerned with childhood deafness. He is a Council member of the British Society for Otology and founder member and head of education and training for the European Academy of Otology and Neurotology. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He has lectured and written extensively on inner ear disease and has had visiting Professorships at many institutions worldwide.

Iain Swain

Iain Swan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Consultant Otologist with the MRC Institute of Hearing Research and an Honorary Consultant at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. His clinical practice is almost exclusively ears - otology and vertigo. He is on the regular teaching faculty of several well known otology courses. Currently, he is President of the RSM Section of Otology, President of the ORS and a member of the SAC.

Tony Narula

Tony Narula qualified in 1979 from Cambridge and the Middlesex Hospital.  He trained in ENT in London and the Midlands before becoming a Consultant in Leicester in 1989 specialising in Otology and Paediatric ENT.  In 2001 he moved to St Mary’s Hospital, London (now Imperial Healthcare).
Tony has mainly specialised in middle ear surgery rather than skull base / implants.  He was elected President of BSO in 2010 having been a Council member for the preceding 3 years.  He was the founder of CME Bulletin and has been a Council member at the RCS since 2004.  He has published numerous papers and book chapters and is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology and of the European Academy of Otology and Neuro-Otology. His current interests are in Facial Palsy and Sudden Deafness.

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