Professor Ram S Dhillon

 

• Consultant Ear, Nose & Throat & Head & Neck Specialist
• Over 30 years clinical experience
• Lifetime Commitment to Clinical Excellence
• Private and NHS Practice
• Special Interests in Facial Pain & Rhinology, otology, Voice disorders and Snoring
• Established in Central and West London since 1988
• London trained (UCH and Middlesex)

 

 

Profile / Summary

• Accredited Consultant Ear Nose & Throat Specialist
• Over 25 years clinical experience
• Established independent and NHS practice South East England since 1993
• Strong academic background in evidence based medicine
• Skilled in general otolaryngology, adults and children
• Special interests in otology, rhinology and laser surgery
• Lifetime commitment to clinical excellence

 

 

Professional qualifications

• UK GMC Registration: Fully Trained Specialist (Otolaryngology)

 

 

Medical Qualifications

• 1987 Accredited Trained Specialist in Otolaryngology (Royal College of Surgeons of England)
• 1983 Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (Otolaryngology)
• 1978 Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (University College London Medical School, London University)

 

 

Professional memberships

Professional Indemnity

 

• Medical Defence Union
• Member of the British Medical Association
• Member of ENT- UK (the British Association of Otolaryngologists / Head & Neck Surgeons)
• Fellow Royal College of Surgeons of England 

NHS practice
Consultant ENT Surgeon North West London Hospitals NHS Trust (Northwick Park Hospital) since 1988

 

 

Independent practice

• London ENT Partners, 69, Wimploe St, London W1
• Princess Grace Hospital, 42, Nottingham Place, London W1
• Clementine Churchill Hospital, Sudbury Hill, Harrow

 

 

Clinical practice in ENT

• NHS and private practice, adults and children
• approx 1,000 new referrals & 1,500 follow-up patients seen per year
• specialist opinion provided on the full spectrum of ENT disorders
• approx 400 ENT surgical operations performed per year

 

 

Specialist skills

General Otolaryngology (Adult & Paediatric)

Otology (this includes complex middle ear surgery e.g. Mastoidectomies and stapes surgery)

 

• over 800 major middle ear operations completed
• several thousand insertions of grommets/middle ear ventilation tubes

 

Rhinology/Sinofacial pain (including functional endoscopic sinus surgery and cosmetic rhinoplasty)

 

• several thousand routine nasal procedures since starting in ENT in 1981
• lateral rhinotomy, fronto-ethmoidectomy and transantral ligation of the maxillary artery.
• Over 1500 FESS operations since 1981
• Cosmetic and functional rhinoplasty regularly performed
• Diagnosis and management of patients with ENT related facial pain

 

LASER surgery

 

• Proficient in the use of the CO2 and KTP lasers

 

 

Head & Neck Surgery

• Performed 1000s of diagnostic procedures including laryngoscopy, pharyngo-oesophagoscopy, biopsies and fine needle aspiration cytology
• Patients diagnosed with cancer treatment are referred to multidisciplinary teams
• Regular performance of parotidectomy and excision of submandibular gland , branchial cyst and thyroglossal cyst.

 

 

Snoring

• 20 years experience in the investigation and management of snoring
• Use of the flexible endocope for assessment and interpretation of sleep studies
• Experience in the medical and surgical interventions for snorin

 

 

Facial Plastic Surgery

• experienced in rhinoplasty techniques
• functional and cosmetic procedures carried out regularly
• pinnaplasty / otoplasty carried out with good results
• regular performance of soft tissue facial plastics procedures

 

 

Voice Disorders

• Over 25 years experience in the diagnosis and investigation of voice disorders, particularly for professional voice users
• Provide a regular voice clinic with the support of ENT speech therapists
• Perform a range of surgical procedures for voice disorders

 

 

Endoscopy

• Skilled in the use of rigid and fibreoptic endoscopes
• 100s of microlaryngsocpy including vocal cord augmentation injection
• functional endoscopic sinus surgery regularly performed

 

 

Teaching & training skills

• Medical teaching since 1978
• Teaching and assessing through formal tutorials, lectures, marking written work & viva voce examinations since 1978
• Structured & informal teaching to students, medical colleagues and colleagues from professions allied to medicine throughout career
• Regular one-to-one teaching of junior medical staff in out-patients and operating theatres
• Coaching of junior colleagues for postgraduate examinations
• Currently Programme Leader, mentor and examiner for the Postgraduate Diploma in ENT (Middlesex - University, London a course for GP's developing a Special Interest in ENT)
• Editor: Clinical Focus(Primary Care) 2005 to date
  
• Formerly Co-Editor: CME Bulletin Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery (1995-2005)

Correspondence
73 Newman Street
London W1A 4PG
UK

Appointments
Tel: 0207 580 6970
Fax: +44(0)207 580 7166
Email Contact: info@entlondon.co.uk

Opening hours
Practice Opening hours:
9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday