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OBITUARY: Prof Shanmugam Kameswaran (1923-2021)

10 August 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Professor Shanmugam Kameswaran was born in 1923 and did his MBBS and MS at Madras Medical College, India, under PV Cherian who later became the Governor of Maharashtra, India. He worked as his assistant and left for the UK in...

Rhinology, Sofia and freedom

10 March 2023 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Our president-elect and host of the ERS2023 shares her love for ERS, rhinology in general, and Bulgaria. Let her invitation to experience the “freedom to breathe” inspire us all to visit Sophia and enjoy a great congress in a fantastic...

Managing sustainability

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Planetary health needs to be addressed at a societal level for any meaningful impact to occur. As the global director of sustainability for a law firm, Marion Palmer provides an overview of the responsibilities of corporate organisations for both a...

OBITUARY: Professor Wolfgang Steiner (1942–2024)

2 April 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
It is with great sadness that we must inform all our readers of the passing of the wonderful Professor Dr Wolfgang Steiner, the truly indomitable, passionate Professor of Otolaryngology of the Medical Faculty of Gottingen, Germany, from 1986–2007. Wolfgang died...

The pioneer of precision: Wolfgang Steiner and the evolution of transoral laser surgery

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
It is rare that a single clinician entirely changes the course of the management of a particular condition. Steiner was one such clinician. Wolfgang Steiner was to transoral laser microsurgery what Grandmaster Flash was to hip-hop or James Brown was...

Audiology and speech language pathology programmes in India: an overview of education and career opportunities

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - ENT
This article is provided by Lalsa Shilpa Perepa, a Clinical Audiologist who started her audiology career in India. Audiology and speech language pathology (ASLP) courses in India are offered by various colleges and institutes that are affiliated with different universities...

Help shape the future of mild to moderate hearing loss research

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
A James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership has been formed to help shape the future of research into mild-moderate hearing loss. Who is the Priority Setting Partnership? The Partnership brings together Hearing Link, Action on Hearing Loss, the British Society...

The Veterans Hearing Fund

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Dawn Bramham introduces us to the newly launched Veterans Hearing Fund (VHF). This organisation aims to improve the lives of military personnel with hearing loss by providing access to technologies, services and bespoke rehabilitation that are not routinely available via...

Wisdom and the cochlear implant clinician

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Helen Cullington provides the clinician’s perspective on the challenges faced in building artificial intelligence into cochlear implant clinics. She highlights the importance of including the clinician with their wisdom and experience to help make sense of the patterns of data....

The accidental audiologist

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
In this article we hear from Muhammed Ayas, an “accidental” audiologist applying his transferable skills as a clinician, academic, and researcher through trying and testing innovative approaches in audiology to better serve the community. My audiology journey began 22 years...

Reduction thyroplasty

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Introduction Male to female transgendered patients are referred to ENT for reduction thyroplasty – a procedure to reduce the external appearance of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, and feminisation of the voice. Reduction thyroplasty, often erroneously called ‘tracheal shave’,...

In conversation with Shelly Chadha

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
This year’s theme for World Hearing Day 2018 on 3 March is discussed by Shelly Chadha of the World Hearing Organization (WHO). She explains the importance of the event and how every hearing care professional can get involved and contribute...