Experience
I was appointed to the post of Consultant Otolaryngologist and Head & Neck Surgeon at Musgrove Park Hospital on 1st July 2000. I obtained my MBBCh from Ain-Shams University, Cairo in 1974 and completed all my basic and higher surgical training in the UK. I obtained my FRCS in 1983 from Dublin, and subsequently obtained my FRCS (ORL-HNS) in 1999 and my CCST in June 2000. I was awarded the Fellowship ad eundem from the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 11th December 2008.
I have been practicing ENT for almost 30 years, 13 of them as a Consultant and Clinical Lead in the United Arab Emirates and from July 2000 at Musgrove Park Hospital, of which I was Audit Lead for about 4 years. I have a wide range of experience in all aspects of adult and paediatric ENT and Head & Neck Surgery. I am highly experienced in most otological procedures. In Head & Neck Surgery I have gained substantive experience in salivary gland and thyroid surgery. In paediatric otolaryngology I have dealt with several cases of congenital choanal atresia, for which I have several publications as well as a patent design for a Sadek Choanal Atresia Stent for the treatment of the condition (patent number US6606995).
My special interest is Rhinology and Thyroid surgery. I have substantive skills in functional endoscopic sinus surgery and Rhinoplasty, having performed over 300 cases of the latter.
Research
1) Efficacy of Topical Anaesthesia in Outpatient Flexible Nasendoscopy
2) Post-Operative Prophylactic Antibiotics in Tonsillectomy
