Professor Richard T Ramsden
ENT Department
Manchester Royal Infirmary
Manchester, UK
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Richard Ramsden was appointed
consultant otolaryngologist at
Manchester Royal Infirmary in
1977 and was awarded a personal
chair in 1995. He has devoted
his professional life to
neurotology and skull base
surgery and has a large
experience of vestibular
Schwannoma surgery and of NF2
management.
He established the Manchester
Cochlear Implant/ABI programme
in 1988.
He
is a widely travelled and well
respected speaker at a variety
of ORL conferences in Europe,
America and Australia. He has
contributed many significant
scientific papers on clinical
and basic research and presently
holds the position of President
of the British Society of
Otorhinolaryngology – Head and
Neck Surgery.
Dr
Sam Robinson
Senior Visiting ENT Surgeon
Flinders Medical Centre
Flinders Drive, Bedford Pk 5042
South Australia
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Sam Robinson underwent his
specialist training in Adelaide
(completed 1999) during which
time he developed an interest in
snoring and sleep apnoea
surgery. He furthered his
training by visiting Stanford
University to study under Drs
Riley and Powell in 1997.
He
is a Senior Visiting Medical
Specialist at the Flinders
Medical Centre, and a founding
member of the multidisciplinary
sleep apnoea group at the
Adelaide Institute for Sleep
Health, Repatriation General
Hospital, Adelaide. His private
practice is through the ENT
Surgeons group based at The
Memorial Hospital.
His subspecialty interest is
surgery for snoring and sleep
apnoea. He regularly presents at
national and international
meetings, and has a number of
scientific papers and book
chapters on this topic. He has
been scientific coordinator of
two snoring and sleep apnoea
surgical conferences in Adelaide
(2004 & 2006), and was an
International organizing
committee member & plenary
speaker at the International
Sleep Surgery
Symposium,Chicago,2006.
Associate
Professor Jin Keat Siow
MBBS FRCSEd FAMS MD
Clinical
Associate Professor of
Otorhinolaryngology
National University of Singapore
Senior Consultant
Tan Tock Seng Hospital,
Singapore
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Assoc Professor Siow’s
subspecialty interest is in
rhinology and image guidance in
sinus surgery.
He has been teaching faculty for
endoscopic sinus surgery courses
conducted at the University of
Marburg, Germany since 2005, the
University of Nairobi Kenya
since 2006 and Sun Yat Sun
University Guangzhou China since
2006.
He is a member of
the Editorial Board of the
European Archives of ORL Head
and Neck Surgery.
K J Lee MD FACS
Co-ordinator for International
Affairs
International Editor
American Academy of
Otolaryngology-Head & Neck
Surgery
Connecticut, USA
K J
Lee MD FACS, Associate Clinical
Professor at Yale University,
Chief of Otolaryngology,
Hospital of St Raphael, was the
2002 President of the American
Academy of Otolaryngology-Head &
Neck Surgery and now serves as
the Academy’s Co-ordinator of
International Affairs and
International Editor.
He
was educated at Harvard
University and Columbia
University and trained at
Harvard Medical School ENT
Residency. He has published
numerous books and peer reviewed
articles. He has served as
Senior Healthcare Advisor to US
Presidential Candidates and
Connecticut Speaker of the House
as well as Chairman of the
Hospital Medical Staff and the
Hospital Medical Board.
One
of his books, Essential
Otolaryngology-Head & Neck
Surgery, has been translated
into several languages and is
now in its 9th edition. He is
married to Linda Ho Lee. They
have 3 children, a litigator
(barrister), a hedge fund
private equity person and a
movie producer.
