The AOT Pod

This episode welcomes Mr Simon Cole an ENT registrar in the East Midlands Deanery, and Professor Bindy Sahota Consultant Head and Neck and Robotics Surgeon at University Hospitals of Leicester and Professor of Head and Neck at University of Derby, and together they talk to us today about the assessment and management of RRP.Thank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT Youtube page.

In this episode Ms Kala Kumaresan an ENT registrar in Yorkshire deanery welcomes Mr Sid Nagala is a Consultant Head and Neck, Thyroid and Parathyroid surgeon at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. Alongside his clinical interests, Sid is the ENT research lead at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and the current NIHR ENT lead for the South Central region. He actively engages in national NIHR trials, such as HOT and RABBIT. He collaborates with the University of Reading with research interests including the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare specifically in patients with thyroid nodules and cancer. Sid has previously completed a translational PhD evaluating imaging biomarkers in thyroid tumours at the University of Cambridge. Sid has served on the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS) Executive committee as the Educational Lead. He currently represents BAETS as the Innovation Lead. He is regularly invited to speak at national and international courses and conferences in relation to thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

This episode welcomes Ms Dora Amos an ENT registrar in the Kent, Surrey, Sussex Deanery, and Mr Philippe Bowles, a consultant rhinologist at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust, and together they talk to us today about the assessment and management of granulomatous nasal diseases.Thank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT Youtube page.

This episode welcomes Mr Simon Cole an ENT registrar in the East Midlands Deanery, and Mr Peter Conboy, a head and neck consultant at University Hospitals of Leicester, and together they talk to us today about the assessment and management of thyrotoxicosis.Thank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT Youtube page.

This episode welcomes Ms Tharsika Myuran an East of England trainee who has just completed a post CCT anterior skull base, rhinology and facial plastics fellowship in Wessex, and Mr Ashok Rokade anterior skull base and facial plastics consultant, Chair of the Global Rhinology Network and President of the British Rhinological Society and Fellowship Director of Winchester anterior skull base, rhinology and facial plastics fellowship, and together they talk to us today about the assessment and surgical management of epiphora.Thank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT Youtube page.

This episode welcomes Mr. Hao Meng, ENT ST5 registrar in North Thames Deanery and Ms Zi Wei Liu, head and neck consultant, currently practising in Northwick Park Hospital. She is also the local London North West Head and Neck MDT chair and is the current clinical lead of Northwick Park Hospital ENT department and talks to us today about the assessment and surgical management of deep neck space infectionsThank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT Youtube page.

This episode welcomes Ms Anya Selwyn, an ENT registrar in the KSS deanery and Mr Rob Grounds, consultant otologist and lateral scull base surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital who talks to us today about the assessment and surgical management of Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media.Thank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT YouTube page.

This episode welcomes Ms Lauren Bolton, ST7 ENT registrar in Yorkshire Deanery and Ms Lizzie Kershaw paediatric ENT consultant in Leeds General Infirmary who completed her registrar training in Yorkshire, talks to us today about the assessment and surgical management of choanal atresia.Thank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT YouTube page.

In this episode, we officially launch season two of The AOT POD following huge success with season one hosted by Georgina Wellstead and Joshua Michaels. Introducing your new hosts Livy Kenyon (ST7 ENT registrar based in Thames Valley) & Kala Kumaresan (ST6 ENT registrar based in Yorkshire). We thank the ENT UK foundation, our AOT members and listeners worldwide for their support. To share your thoughts and for collaboration please contact us at [email protected] we look forward to hearing from you!

This episode welcomes Ding Yang, President of the BRS Juniors 2025/26 committee and Mr Rajeev Advani, consultant facial plastic, rhinology and anterior skull base surgeon based at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Mr Advani is a previous fellow from St George's Hospital in London and talks to us today about the assessment and surgical management of a rhinoplasty patient. Thank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT Youtube page.