Professor Guri Sandhu

 Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Consultant ENT Surgeon, Harley ENT Practice, London (present)
• Consultant ENT Surgeon, Charing Cross Hospital, London (present)
• Consultant ENT Surgeon, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London (present)
• Consultant Paediatric ENT Surgeon, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
• Consultant ENT Surgeon, University College Hospital, London

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 Sub-specialties

• Adult and paediatric ENT problems
• Voice/hoarseness
• Airway stenosis
• Sleep related breathing problems (sleep apnoea and snoring)
• Swallowing disorders
• Nasal obstruction/sinusitis
• Hearing and Ear Problems
• cough
• Exercise induced laryngeal obstruction

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 Positions in public associations

• ENT Surgeon to the Royal Society of Musicians
• Co-Founder and Treasurer to The British Laryngological Association
• Assessor at The Royal College of Surgeons England
• NICE specialist advisor
• President of the Section of Rhinology and Laryngology, Royal Society of Medicine

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 Teaching posts

• Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
• Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College London
• Faculty in the surgical skills course at the Royal College of Surgeons
• Postgraduate teacher at The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital

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 Education

• London Hospital Medical School, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery MBBS, 1990
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (General Surgery, ENT and ORL-HNS), 1994, 1996, 2001.
• Doctorate in Medicine (MD), University College London, 2011
• Honorary Fellow Royal Academy of Music (hon FRAM) from 2017

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 Publications and conferences

• Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction: a common and overlooked cause of exertional breathlessness. Br J Gen Pract. 2016 Sep;66(650)
• Laryngological presentations of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: case series of nine patients from two London tertiary referral centres. Clin otolaryngol. 2016 Jul 19. doi: 10.1111
• Assessment and management of laryngeal mucous membrane pemphigoid: our experience in six patients and a proposed severity scale. Clin otolaryngol. 2016 May 14
• Feasibility of vocal fold abduction and adduction assessment using cine-MRI. Eur Radiol. 2016 Apr 16.
• Disease homogeneity and treatment heterogeneity in idiopathic subglottic stenosis. Laryngoscope. 2016 Jun;126(6):1390-6
• RegenVOX: a phase I/II clinical trial of stem cell-based tissue-engineered laryngeal implants cytotherapy. 2015 Jun; 17(6): S69
• Simulation in laryngology training; what should we invest in? Our experience with 64 porcine larynges and a literature review. Clin Otolaryngol. 2015 Jun;40(3):269-73
• Caustic ingestion injury of the upper aerodigestive tract in adults, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2015 May; 97 (4): 304-307
• Long-term outcomes of rituximab therapy in ocular granulomatosis with polyangiitis: impact on localized and nonlocalized disease. Ophthalmology. 2015 Mar 4.
• Impact of unilateral vocal fold mobility impairment on laryngopulmonary physiology. Clinical Otolaryngology, 2014 Aug;39(4):210-5
• CONFERENCES
• 18th International Pulmonology Symposium, Leuven, Belgium, 23rd Feb 2017 MDT working in benign laryngotracheal stenosis (invited speaker)
• Danish Laryngological Society Meeting, Copenhagen, 27th January 2017 chronic cough (invited speaker)
• Cutting Edge Laryngology Conference, London, 4 - 6th October 2016 (organiser and section chair)
• European Laryngological Society Meeting, Genoa, 8 - 11th June 2016, laryngotracheal stenosis and round table on lasers in laryngology (invited speaker)
• 19th WCBIP/WCBE World Congress, Florence, 8 - 11th May 2016, endoscopic airway surgery and tracheal resection techniques (invited speaker)
• Garsington Voice Day, Garsington Opera, London, 16th May 2016, laryngeal pathologies (invited speaker)
• ‘Edwin Nash Broyles Lecture’ – modern management laryngotracheal stenosis, 22nd February 2016 John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA(invited to give posthumous lecture)
• Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, 11th-15th December 2015 Workshop (lectures and keynote speaker)
• World Academic Conference in Airway Management, Dublin, 12 - 14th Nov 2015, airway surgery past and present (keynote speaker)
• ‘William Montgomery Lecture’ – new innovations in airway surgery, May 2013 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, USA (invited to give posthumous lecture)

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 Prizes and awards

• Isshiki Award – Oct 2016, awarded by the British Laryngological Association for outstanding contribution to laryngology
• British Journal of Surgery prize for the best paper presented at the 2015 British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeon's annual meeting (co-author). 'Is it possible to use acoustic analysis of a patient’s voice, measured on a mobile device, to accurately exclude vocal cord paralysis after thyroid surgery?'
• BMA Medical Book awards – commendation for the book ‘Practical Laryngology’
• Corresponding Fellow to the American Laryngological Association – May 2012 (the only practising British laryngologist to receive this award)
• European Respiratory Medicine Meeting, Sept 2007, 1st prize for research presentation

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 Professional membership

• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Royal Society of Medicine
• British Laryngological Association
• American Laryngological Association
• ENT-UK
• European Laryngological Association
• British Medical Association

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