Charlie Huins completed his ENT training in London followed by a year abroad on fellowship, spending six months in Cambodia to establish an ENT service in an NGO hospital through training two local Khmer doctors in ear surgery; the second six months was spent at the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre, through the Graham Fraser Memorial Fellowship. He is now a Consultant Otologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham and is part of the CI Team.
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Stricture after total laryngectomy: what are the risk factors?
Stricture after total laryngectomy is common but not inevitable. New insights into risk factors could help clinicians anticipate problems and improve swallowing outcomes. Why this complication deserves renewed attention Total laryngectomy remains one of the defining operations in head and...
Extended benefits of cochlear implantation in the elderly
With the challenges presented by an ageing population, Louise Craddock and Charlie Huins describe the benefits of cochlear implants for deaf elderly adults that go beyond improvement of hearing and speech understanding. Introduction People aged over 65 make up 7.4%...
The Graham Fraser Foundation
Graham Fraser (1936-94) was a pioneering otolaryngologist, in whose memory the Graham Fraser Foundation was set up, and an eponymous annual lecture and a travelling fellowship in otology were established. It’s an honour to profile the Foundation in this extended...
