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Tony Narula
President of the British Society of Otology

Members of Council

	Tony Narula President of the British Society of Otology Tony Narula is a consultant at St marys Hospital, London W2 (part of Imperial healthcare). He was first appointed as a consultant with an interest in ear disorders in 1989 at Leicester Royal Infirmary, moving to London in 2001. He is a Founder Member of the BSO and was elected President by the membership to serve from 2010-12. He is also an elected Council member of the Roya College of Surgeons since 2004, and was re-elected to that role in 2010.

	Chris Aldren Chris Aldren is a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon in Berkshire working at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough and the Princess Margaret Hospital Windsor www.windsor-ent.com. His clinical interest is in adult and paediatric middle ear and mastoid surgery. He has particular experience in primary and revision stapes surgery. Chris teaches widely and runs an annual international ear surgery course at Wexham Park Hospital each May . As well as being on BSO council, he is a board member of Live International Otolaryngology Network www.lion-web.org and on the committee of otology neurotology database www.ondb.org . He is the current secretary to the academic committee of BACO 2009 and a past president of the Young Consultants in Otolaryngology YCOHNS. Chris is married with 3 children and is a keen violinist.

	Anil Banerjee Anil Banerjee is a Consultant ENT Surgeon and Assistant Medical Director at University Hospitals of Leicester and Consultant ENT Surgeon at The London Road Clinic (www.londonroadclinic.co.uk). He trained in the UK at Nottingham and Leicester and in Australia as Senior ENT Fellow at the Royal Brisbane Infirmary. His research interests include tinnitus, balance disorders and middle ear disease. He served as Editor of the medical journal - 'The Otorhinolaryngologist' until 2008 and was previously President of Young Consultants in Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. He has served as AOT and then YCOHNS representative on the SAC, and as Secretary to the Otology Section at the Royal Society of Medicine. He continues to lecture on balance problems and ear disease at national and international meetings.

	Ian Bottrill Ian is a consultant ENT surgeon at The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust. His initial ENT training was at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital (RNTNEH) and Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London. He then undertook a one year fellowship at Tufts University Medical School in Boston USA. This involved work on laser applications in ear surgery and work on treating Meniere’s Disease. On returning to the UK he became a senior registrar at Cambridge and RNTNEH. Ian has a specialist interest in diseases of the ear. This includes childhood ear and hearing problems, surgery for ear infections, cholesteatoma, otosclerosis and Eustachian tube problems. He also has extensive experience in the treatment of Meniere’s disease. Ian is a national expert in the use of gentamicin for Meniere’s disease. He provides a regional service for bone anchored hearing aids. Ian is actively involved in the training of ENT doctors. He also teaches on national ENT courses, particularly in ear surgery. He still likes to play squash but age is catching him up!
	Philip Clamp Philip Clamp is the current AOT representative to the BSO. He trained at Trinity College, Oxford and is currently an ENT registrar on the Southwest of England Rotation. He is interested in all aspects of Otology as well as medical education and basic sciences. He is an honorary clinical fellow with Bristol and Peninsula Medical Schools and has published on a range of medical and training issues.

	Richard Irving Richard Irving Is the current secretary of the BSO. Richard is based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Children's Hospital in Birmingham. He trained in ENT in London and Cambridge and prior to moving to Birmingham was Clinical Instructor in Neurotology in San Francisco. During training he obtained a thesis in molecular genetics and he continues to publish widely on subjects related to the ear and hearing. His clinical practice encompasses middle ear surgery, implantation Otology, the management of skull base tumours and acoustic neuroma.

	Iain Swan Iain Swan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Consultant Otologist with the MRC Institute of Hearing Research and an Honorary Consultant at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. His clinical practice is almost exclusively ears - otology and vertigo. He is on the regular teaching faculty of several well known otology courses. Currently, he is President of the RSM Section of Otology, President of the ORS and a member of the SAC.

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