ENT Surgery

Richard Ramsden graduated MBChB from St Andrews University – many years ago. He fled to London for his ENT training at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and the London Hospital (before it was Royal). He intended to return to Scotland but only got as far as Manchester where he worked as an Otologist, Neuro-otolgist and Skull Base Surgeon for over 30 years at Manchester Royal Infirmary and at Hope Hospital, Salford.   He established a joint Neuro-otology team and spent many happy hours removing acoustic neuromas with a series of friendly neurosurgeons.  He was involved in the early days of multichannel cochlear implants and established the Manchester programme in 1988.  He developed an interest in NF2 and did the first Brainstem Implants in the UK.  He was awarded an Honorary Professorship in 1994 and an MBE for services to Otolaryngology from Her Majesty the Queen in 2015.  He has contributed many book chapters and around 300 peer reviewed articles, a small minority of which are still worth reading.   He is spending his declining years in Oxfordshire and is frequently invited to contribute to the literature on the history of ENT which seems appropriate for one of his veneration.  He tries to play more golf but has come to the sad conclusion that if he hasn’t mastered it by now he never will.

Prof Produl Hazarika MBBS, DLO, MS, FACS, FRCS (Edin), FIAO, FUWAI, Fellow of UICC is presently working as an otolaryngologist in NMC Specialty Hospital in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. He is a former professor and head and director of post graduate studies of the department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head&Neck Surgery in Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. He has 28 years of clinical teaching experience both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with over 100 publications in various national and international journals. He was selected as international guest scholar by the American College of Surgeon in 1986 and has travelled widely to the U.S, Australia, U.K and Malaysia, Switzerland, Mauritius on various fellowship programs. He has conducted various operative workshops abroad and in India. He has taken up an overseas assignment for two years as a consultant and head of the department of ENT, Armed Forces Hospital in Kuwait. He was en elceted chairman of editorial board of Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head&nck Surgery for the years 1996 to the year 1999. He was appointed as external accessor by University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from August 2000- April 2005. He was the examiner for both undergraduate and post- graduate student of various universities of India He had done pioneering work in Surgical Rehabilitation of alaryngeal patients in India. He has also introduced voice prosthesis known as HRA Prosthesis. He was the first surgeon to introduce Nucleus 22 Channel Nuclear Implant in India in March 1995. The surgical team headed by Dr. Hazarika has popularized skull based surgery in India during the late 80’s and early 90’s. He was instrumental in introducing KTP-532 Laser for the first time in a teaching institution and had carried out extensive laser work. He is the author of three otorhinolaryngology and head and neck textbooks.He is an invited speaker in various national ,regional and state conferences organize by otolaryngologist.

Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she works with the approach and treatment of all chronic diseases in a holistic way, with treatment guided through the teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates. Researcher in the University of São Paulo, in the Ophthalmology department from 2012 to 2013.Author of the theory Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. Author of more than 60 publications about treatment of variety of diseases rebalancing the internal energy using Hippocrates thoughts.