Grants & Prizes

Name

Project

Funding

Ngan Hong Ta

Exploring the Nexus of Olfactory Disorders and Cognitive Decline in Apolipoprotein E-4 (APOE-4) Carriers: A Pilot Case-Control Study Utilizing UK Biobank Data

 £1,500

Lilia Dimitrov

Detecting Microvascular Changes in the Tympanic Membrane Using Machine Vision-Based Segmentation

 £2,000

Lucy Li

National Prospective Tonsillectomy Study 2024

 £1,500

William Tsang

Intracellular bacteria - the trojan horse of chronic airway disease?

 £1,500

Tunde Oremule

Combination Nasal Oxymetazoline and Steroid Efficacy trial for Rhinitis (COMBI-NOSE)

 £1,000

Megan Gurney

3D printing in mastoid surgery

 £500

Louise Kuo

Evaluating the use of a direct  referral pathway for tinnitus: a single-centre qualitative study

 £500

Name

Project

Funding

Anna Slovick

The Women in ENT Surgery Foundation in Leadership Course (ENT UK Foundation Andrew Foster Leadership Grant)

£1,200

Noora Althawadi

Sustainable Utilisation of Surgical Instruments in ENT Operating Theatres: Development of a Web-Based Platform for Customised ENT Surgical Instrument Selection

£1,000

Mitanshi Luhana

Assessment of impact of hearing loss in presbycusis patients using quality of life questionnaire

£1,000

Thuduvage Sanjeewanie

Technology Assisted Education for Medical Students and Junior Doctors

£400

Ngan Hong (Tanya) Ta

 Are we listening?’ – A mixed methodology study into Trainees’ Perspectives of Core Surgical Training

£500

Clair Saxby

The Creation of a National Tympanoplasty database

£3,000

Paramita Baruah

Time to ‘RAGE’ against necrotising otitis externa in diabetes

£1,000

Ravina Tanna

Trans-nasal Oesophagoscopy (TNO) – UK Multidisciplinary Consensus Guidance for Training and Integrated Service Delivery

£1,000

Soo Oh

Patient-reported symptom appraisal for low risk two-week-wait head and neck cancer referrals - a qualitative study

£1,500

Wanding Yang

Development and Evaluation of Thyroid Cancer Patient Decision Aid

£1,500

Andrew Williamson

The IReC consensus document for salvage head and neck surgery

£1,000

Dimitrios Spinos

Standardised Simulation-Facilitated Cortical Mastoidectomy Training

£1,000

Kristijonas Milinis

Development of imaged-guided transoral robotic surgery using upconversion nanoparticles

£1,000

Liam Lee

Enhancing Patient Engagement and Outcome Measurement in ENT Care Through Accessible Digital Solution

£1,000

Daniel Michalik

Novel nasal biomarkers for Alzheimer's Dementia

£1,500

Stephen Bennett

A comparison of the bacterial localisation site and inflammatory profile associated with Staphylococcus aureus strains in chronic rhinosinusitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

£500

Solomon Pudi

Exploring the causes of differential attainment in IMG doctors

£500

James Schuster-Bruce

An app-based study evaluating hearing behaviours amongst nightclubbers

£400

Rishi Shukla

Multi-centre evaluation of ARTISS™ fibrin sealant to evaluate safe-transition to drainless hemithyroidectomy and day-case surgery

£1,500

Tom Hampton

Exposure of new-borns in the Neonatal Unit to ototoxic insults; aminoglycosides and noise: an observational study in Blantyre, Malawi. “Noise for Neonates”

£800

Thomas Khan-White

Retrospective cohort study investigating the effects of CT-defined sarcopenia and systemic inflammation on survival in patients with hypopharyngeal and advanced stage laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas

£1,000

Ying Ki Lee

From Text to Insights: Identifying Differences in Clinicopathological Features and Molecular Testing of Aggressive Variants of Thyroid Cancer using Natural Language Processing

£1,000

Name

Project

Funding

Alexandra Bell

A review of surgical logbooks to assess UK higher surgical trainees’ exposure to laryngology

£500

Ankit Patel

An Assessment of Inner Ear Function at Altitude using Electrocochleography

£1,000

Ankit Patel

Should I wear a surgical gown during my next tonsillectomy?

£200

Ashley Hay

A liquid biopsy in cystic neck masses- application of cell free HPV DNA testing

£1,500

Catherine de Cates    

Investigate how chronic ear disease affects quality of life in Nepal and to inform ways of addressing it

£1,200

Catrin Evans

Implementation of a novel patient care pathway for diagnosis and management of patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma using the One Airway approach

£2,000

Eamon Shamil

Improving rhinology educational resources, and patient management pathways, using the TympaHealth Rhinoscope

£500

Eamon Shamil

Evaluating opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint in ENT clinics and theatre

£1,000

John Rocke

GLObus pharyngeus and irritable bowel Syndrome: a prospecTIve Questionnaire study (GLO-STIQ)

£750

Nishchay Mehta

Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for Tinnitus Management at UCL hospital

£1,500

Oluwatobi Adegboye

The socioeconomic impact of Spasmodic Dysphonia patients and the role of Botulinum toxin

£1,000

Paramita Baruah

Macrophage metabolism and tumour progression in Head and Neck paragangliomas

£500

Peter Gaskell

Can machine learning algorithms be used to find the best images of a tympanic membrane from an endoscopic ear examination video?

£1,000

Shyam Gokani and Professor Carl Philpott

Microbiome analysis in chronic rhinosinusitis patients from the MACRO trial

£2,000

Soumik Basu

Investigating the role of Inflammation in the pathogenesis of Oropharyngeal cancer through - Specialized Pro-resolving lipid mediator profile analysis

£1,456

Tharsika Myuran

AOT Wellbeing Survey

£1,200

Thomas Franchi

Vocal change analysis to predict disease progression in patients with or at risk of laryngeal cance

£400

Wanding Yang

The role of thyroid cancer patient concerns inventory (PCI-TC) in enhancing shared decision making

£1,500

Name

Project

Funding

Ananth Vijendren

Investigation into hearing loss as a manifestation of Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) -a pilot study

£500

Babatunde Oremule

How can machine learning algorithms optimise the management of chronic ear disease in children and young people in the community

£750

Carl Philpott and Andreas Espehana

A prospective observational study of olfactory performance in patients receiving Tumour Necrosis - Factor- a) (TNF-a)) Antagonist in a rheumatology clinic

£1,000

Callum Findlay

A study of the association between immune status of the middle ear at implantation and hearing - outcomes following cochlear implantation

£500

Elliot Heward and John Rocke

Post OPerative Tonsillectomy Questionnaire (POP-T)

£500

Emma Stapleton

Hearing Loss Awareness, Accessibility and Communication in ENT and Audiology: a multi-specialty initiative and research programme

£750

Christopher Hogan

National audit of the management of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma of unknown primary - INTEGRATE (Head & Neck Sub-Committee)

£1,000

James England

Identification of exosomal miRNA biomarkers in thyroid disease using microfluidics

£750

Manish George

Artificial Intelligence Stratification of Thyroid Nodules

£1,000

Nishchay Mehta

Feasibility of cognitive assessment in NHS hearing clinics

£750

Paramita Baruah

Do stromal fibroblasts and macrophages determine behaviour of Head and Neck paragangliomas?

£750

Rachel Edmiston

The use of the hearTest™ hearing app as a screening tool in dementia clinics

£750

Sophie Wilkinson

The pathogenesis of Human Papillomavirus in the Oropharynx

£750

Wendy Smith

Chronic Cough in patients with renal cell carcinoma: The prevalence, trigger and potential clinical application of chronic cough as an early screening tool in patients with kidney cancer

£750

Zain Sheikh

Does early treatment of hearing loss in people with mild dementia or cognitive impairment delay cognitive decline – A feasibility study

£1,000

Name

Project

Funding

Eleanor Crossley

Crash Course in DO-HNS knowledge

£3,000

Aaron Hundle

Establishing recommendations for simulation training methods for ENT Junior Doctors Induction

£1,500

Alex Ashman

WENTS & Friends, a Women in ENT Surgery UK podcast: Season Two

£1,500

Bhavesh Patel

ENT Flashcards - a novel, high yield learning resource for ENT Surgeons

£1,500

Bhargavi Chandrasekar

Improving inclusivity: Providing good care to transgender and non-binary patients

£1,240

Ahmar Ahmad

Enhancing Otoscopy Training: Development of a low-cost 3D-printed Otoscopy Simulator

£1,125

Lavandan Jegatheeswaran

HoloENT: Revolutionising ENT training with a mixed-reality, low-cost, high-fidelity tonsillectomy simulation

£500

JiakYing Tan

ENT Advanced Surgical Skill Workshop 2024

£500

Livy Kenyon

Educational virtual reality middle and inner ear model

£500

Name

Project

Funding

Doreen Nakku

Feasibility of primary school ear and hearing screening program

£1,500

Jonathan Lee

An expert consensus process to establish a minimum acceptable dataset for remote otological assessment in the UK

£1,500

Joshua Michaels

An AOT FRCS Podcast

£1,000

Ishika Kamat

Developing tele-training for remote sharing of co-produced ENT-Head and Neck Imaging educational materials, with impact, to multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals (HCP) in low-resource countries

£1,500

Rujuta Roplekar Bance

Education and Training support for the ENTUK National Mentoring Scheme hosted by WENTS UK

£1,500

Name

Project

Funding

Oliver Wright

EarAtlas website and Otoscopy app

£1,500

Haleema Siddique

Virtual Reality Simulation Experience of an Emergency Paediatric Tracheostomy Management

£1,500

Giri Wijayasingam

Observership at Cincinnati Children's Hospital USA

£1,500

Victoria Carswell

Improving trainee skill acquisition and retention through incentivised novel take home simulations

£1,500

Name

Project

Funding

Swagatam Banerjee

The Virtual clinical attachment – an innovative solution in the Covid-19 era

£1,000

Jonathan Abbas

Utilisation of virtual reality (VR) technology to increase access to paediatric ENT emergency medical algorithm training

£1,500

Tanya Ta, Christopher Williams, Rohma Abrar

Bite-size ENT Research Skills - an innovative multimedia educational project to augment research skill training among students, foundation doctors, and core surgical trainees

£1,000

Charlotte Simms

What makes a successful ENT Surgeon – an Otolaryngological Odyssey

£500

Mahmood Bhutta

Developing ENT Guidelines for use in low-resource settings

£1,000

Project

Funding

Manuella Cresswell

Ear aid Nepal Temporal bone course

£1,925

Mama Ntiriwa Sekyi-Djan

Essential Skills in Otolaryngology for Senior House Officers in Ghana

£1,540