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Mahmood Bhutta
Mahmood is the inaugural Professor in ENT at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (UK). He has a clinical and academic interest in ear and hearing care in low resource settings, and in particular management of chronic suppurative otitis media. He was the recipient of the 2024 Nikhil J Bhatt International Humanitarian Award by the American Academy of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery.
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Kate Stephenson
Kate Stephenson is a Consultant Paediatric ENT surgeon at Birmingham Children's Hospital in the United Kingdom. She has trained and worked as a specialist in both the UK and South Africa, completing a paediatric ENT fellowship at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK, in 2016. Her practice is purely paediatric, and her interests include laryngology, airway and head & neck alongside Global Surgery. She was the founding networking chairperson of Young IFOS and is a member of the ENT UK Global Health committee. Other current roles include the ESPO Head & Neck standing scientific committee and paediatric editor of the ENT UK - Global OHNS Global ENT guidelines.
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Cedric Pritchett
Dr Pritchett is a Pediatric Otolaryngologist- Head & Neck Surgeon with Nemours Children’s Health System at the Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, FL. His scope of practice includes a range of pediatric otolaryngology conditions with particular interest in pediatric otology and hearing loss. He is a cochlear implant surgeon, presently serving as Medical Director the Nemours Children’s Hospital’s Cochlear Implant Program and Co-Director of the Nemours Children’s Ear, Hearing & Communication Center. He is an affiliated Associate Professor in Otolaryngology at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine, and enjoys sharing his knowledge with training healthcare professionals from all backgrounds.
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Santino Cervantes
Dr. Santino Cervantes MD is a complex pediatric otolaryngologist who practices at Nemours Childrens Hospital in Orlando Florida. He is an associate professor and the chair of Otolaryngology education at the University of Central Florida. His practice focuses on aerodigestive, advanced airway surgery, head and neck surgery, and craniofacial patients.
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Fiona Kabagenyi
Dr. Fiona Kabagenyi is a dedicated Paediatric Otolaryngologist from Uganda. After earning her medical degree and postgraduate training in Uganda, she pursued subspecialty training in Paediatric ENT at the University of Cape Town. Dr. Kabagenyi is actively involved in medical education as a lecturer at Makerere University, mentoring aspiring ENT specialists. A passionate researcher, she is a CHESA Fellow and member of the Global OHNs, PENTAFRICA, and the Otolaryngology Society of Uganda.
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Gayle Woodson
Dr. Gayle Woodson is Professor Emerita and Former Chair of Otolaryngology at Southern Illinois University. She is a Past President of the American Academy of Otolaryngology, the American Laryngological Association, and the Society of University Otolaryngologists. For the past 20 years, she and her husband have been involved in teaching otolaryngology in Tanzania.
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Niels Van Heerbeek
The urge to help other people in less privileged countries came during Niels van Heerbeek’s medical training resulting in an internship at Sengerema District Hospital in Tanzania. He then did full time research, resulting in a PhD thesis on the role of the Eustachian tube function in otitis media with effusion, and was enrolled in the ENT residency program at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen. In 2007 he enrolled in a Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery fellowship that was concluded with the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery exam in 2008. Since then, Niels has been working as an ENT surgeon at the Radboudumc. During his first year, he founded AfriKNO Foundation (KNO is Dutch for ENT) with the ambition to improve the level of ENT training and care in Tanzania. Together with colleagues from different countries an ENT training program was set up at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) in Moshi, Northern Tanzania. Now, over 15 years later, over 15 ENT surgeons have successfully trained at KCMC and several of them are still working at KCMC now training the next generation of ENT surgeons.
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Professor Shyan Vijayasekaran
Professor Shyan Vijayasekaran, originally from Perth, is a distinguished otolaryngologist with a medical degree from the University of Western Australia. He trained in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in both London and Perth, and completed a prestigious fellowship in Paediatric Otolaryngology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He was awarded the Charles Ferguson prize by the American Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology in 2005 and earned a PhD focusing on complex airway and swallowing disorders in children. Currently the president of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology, Shyan works at Perth Children's Hospital and other institutions, and is affiliated with The University of Western Australia, Curtin University, and Kasturba Medical College. His clinical and research interests include sleep, airway, voice, swallowing disorders, hearing loss, chronic otitis media, and language delay. With over 140 publications, Shyan is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. He dedicates one month annually to providing voluntary medical care in low and middle-income countries. He is also a father of four young humans, and enjoys travel, reading, yoga, and meditation.
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Dr Chussi is an ENT Head and Neck Surgeon with over 12 years of experience, specializing in Rhinology. With a strong focus on inflammatory and neoplastic sinus disorders, Dr Chussi serves as the Chair of the ENT Department and Program Director for the residency program in Otorhinolaryngology. An active researcher and published author, Dr Chussi is dedicated to advancing the field through both clinical expertise and academic contributions.
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Santino Cervantes
Dr. Santino Cervantes MD is a complex pediatric otolaryngologist who practices at Nemours Childrens Hospital in Orlando Florida. He is an associate professor and the chair of Otolaryngology education at the University of Central Florida. His practice focuses on aerodigestive, advanced airway surgery, head and neck surgery, and craniofacial patients.
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Reuel Maina
Dr Reuel Kageni Maina Academic MBChB - 2010 (University of Nairobi) MMED ENT - 2017 (University of Nairobi) Paediatric ORL Fellowship (University of Cape Town, Red Cross Childrens' Hospital) Work station Kenyatta National Hospital, Department of ENT , Paediatric division
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Taseer Feroz Din
I currently serve as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology, Head-Neck Surgery, Weill Cornell-Qatar and Pediatric Otolaryngologist, Head-Neck Surgeon at Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar after completing a Fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head-Neck Surgery, at Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA. At Stanford University, I was awarded the Fellow of the Year within the Department of Otolaryngology, Head-Neck Surgery and nominated for the 2023 Kelley M. Skeff GME Professionalism Award. During my residency at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, I was awarded the esteemed Mandela Rhodes Scholarship and the TSESI Dubai traveling scholarship. I am a highly motivated clinician with a keen interest in clinical and global health research. My ultimate vision is to continually perform clinical medicine at the highest level and promote global otolaryngology research that facilitates an equitable and world-class clinical practice.
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Kevin Thomas Robbins
Dr. K. Thomas Robbins, a graduate of the University of Toronto, and the Institute of Laryngology and Otology in London, UK, retired as Professor Emeritus and Executive Director Emeritus, Simmons Cancer Institute at SIU and the Simmons Endowed Chair of Excellence in Oncology. Highlights of his career included the initiation of a national societal effort to define and classify the nomenclature for neck dissections that is now an international standard. Also, his NCI funded research on intra-arterial chemotherapy led to the development of novel applications for chemoradiation of advanced head and neck cancer. His research on post-CRT neck dissection supports active observation and less aggressive neck surgery for managing residual nodal disease. Dr Robbins contributed to the merger of two competing head and neck societies to form the American Head and Neck Society in which he served as its inaugural co-president. He has authored over 280 scientific publications and edited 5 text books including the Cumming’s Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Dr Robbins and his wife, Dr. Gayle Woodson have volunteered at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Tanzania over a span of 20 years, helping to train a new generation of Tanzanian ENT surgeons through philanthropy and education.
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David Howard
David Howard was appointed Professor of Head and Neck Oncology at Imperial College London in 2008 and is a former Honorary Consultant ENT/Head and Neck Surgeon at Imperial and UCLH NHS Trust Hospitals, London, UK. After 49 years’ service to the British NHS, he is currently visiting Professor at Korle-Bu Hospital, Accra, Ghana and the KCMC Hospital, Moshi, Tanzania. He trained at Kings College & St George’s Medical School, London, UK. Obtaining a BSc in Physiology 1968, MRCSLRCP 1972, MBBS 1972, FRCS Eng, 1978 in General Surgery and FRCS(Ed) in Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck 1980. He became a Senior Lecture in Laryngology and Honorary Consultant ENT/Head and Neck Surgeon in 1984 on the Professorial Unit at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray’s Inn Rd, London, UK. He was an Honorary Consultant at seven other London Hospitals. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Ghanaian College of Physicians and Surgeons and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK. He has published widely on all aspects of ENT/head and neck disease and has a personal series of over 160 gastric pull-up procedures, over 500 total laryngectomies, over 300 craniofacial and 300 mid-facial degloving procedures. In contrast to this extensive open surgery experience he led the introduction of endoscopic laser resection for malignancy of the upper aerodigestive tract in the UK, founding the British Transoral Laser Microsurgery Course in 1998 in London. David has had a long-standing interest in the aetiology and management of laryngotracheal trauma and stenosis, undertaking the first tracheal homograft in the UK in 1990. Along with Guri Sandhu he initiated the first multidisciplinary group in basic and clinical research on trauma and stenosis in the upper airway at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in 2003.He continues this work in Africa. He was a co-founder and the first President of the British Laryngological Association. He has taken an active interest throughout his career in teaching and training and was awarded two ‘Clinical Teacher of the Year’ awards from University College London, and the first ‘National Lifetime Training Award’ from ENT-UK in 2021. As a result of his work on the Postgraduate National Diploma in ENT for General Practitioners, he was made an Honorary Professor of Middlesex University in 2006. He has forty years of experience as a Founder Member, Trustee and Chairman of the Rhinology and Laryngology Research fund, UK No.327811.He also currently chairs the Exovent Respiratory Support Device Charity, (researching and developing a new negative pressure ventilator) UK No. 1189967,(www.exovent.org) and was a Founder and Trustee of the Xtreme-Everest Medical Research Charity, UK No.1166919. He has been an invited Visiting Professor to many centres in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Africa. He has trained over forty international fellows, notably from Australia, and worked regularly in India in the 90’s and Africa for twenty-four years at the Korle-Bu Hospital in Ghana and ten years at the KCMC Hospital in Tanzania. These African commitments continue with teaching, research and operating on infants, children and adults.
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Kassim Babu Mapondela
Dr. Kassim Babu Mapondela is a distinguished medical doctor specializing in ENT, Allergology and clinical immunology, currently working at Muhimbili University as Senior Lecturer and Muhimbili National Teaching Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as a constultant ENT and Allergologist. He recently completed a prestigious two-year fellowship in Allergology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, becoming the first Tanzanian with formal training and qualifications in the field. Dr. Kassim's professional interests are centered around allergy advocacy, with specialized expertise in asthma, eczema, and food allergies. He holds the esteemed position of Chairperson of the Allergy Society of Tanzania (ASOT) and is actively engaged as a member of the Allergy Society of South Africa and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EACI). Driven by a commitment to enhance healthcare in Tanzania, Dr. Kassim aims to establish a center of excellence at Muhimbili National Teaching Hospital for teaching, managing allergy conditions, and conducting cutting-edge research. His visionary leadership and contributions to the field underscore his dedication to advancing allergy care locally and globally
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Joshua Wiedermann
Joshua P. Wiedermann, M.D., studies a wide range of diseases that impact the head and neck. He is particularly focused on, global surgical training, global surgical outcomes, educational sustainability, rare pediatric head and neck diseases, and aerodigestive diseases in pediatric patients. His focus areas are Paediatric Rare Diseases where he studies the outcomes of rare pediatric diseases such as atypical mycobacterium, complications of sinus disease and Paediatric Idiopathic Tracheal Stenosis (PITS), Paediatric airway stenosis collaborating with a multidisciplinary surgical innovation team to advance the surgical technique of endoscopic and open airway surgery for diseases that result in airway narrowing in pediatric patients. This approach focuses on individualized 3D-printed technology to augment surgical techniques. Dr. Wiedermann has also helped create a worldwide collaboration of international organizations to help pair local developing hospitals with unmet needs to global surgical missions from all over the world. He continues to work closely with the otolaryngology — head and neck surgery residency program he helped develop in Mekelle, Ethiopia, to study and maintain sustainable educational environments abroad. Through collaboration with multidisciplinary and international teams, Dr. Wiedermann aims to help advance the science of airway surgery and increase access to quality surgical care worldwide.
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Tori Cress
Dr. Tori Cress is a third-year Otolaryngology resident at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She completed her undergraduate studies in Chemistry and Theatre at Texas Christian University in Fort Woth, Texas, and she obtained her medical degree at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California. Her clinical and research interests lie in medical education, global surgery, and expanding access to safe, quality surgical care.
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Forest Fearington
Medical student at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, USA interested in ENT and global surgery.
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Andre Brooks
Head of Unit congenital and paediatric Cardio-thoracic surgery, University of Cape Town affiliated Red Cross War Memorial Children's and Groote Schuur Hospitals. My special interests are all aspects of congenital and paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, specifically neonatal surgery, complex biventricular repair and reconstructive airway surgery. Surgical program development for Cardiothoracic Surgery as specifically relevant to the majority world is a great interest of mine.
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Ian Lily
Ian Lilly is a Paediatric ENT with a Specialist Interest in Children's Airway, especially of babies born prematurely. He has been very fortunate to visit with wonderful colleagues at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in the past 5 years. It's been, and continues to be, a privilege for him to do all of this.
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