Head and Neck Imaging

​Taranjit Singh TatlaTaran Tatla is Training Program Director for ENT Higher Surgical Training, London North Thames and a Consultant ENT-Head & Neck-Thyroid Surgeon based at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. Achieving First Class Intercalated BSc Honours in Anatomy and Developmental Biology, he graduated with MBBS from University College London. Postgraduate basic and higher surgical training incorporated posts at many of the renowned London teaching hospitals with FRCS (ORL-HNS) award from Royal College of Surgeons, England. He completed a PhD in Applied Optical Imaging linked with the Hamlyn Centre for Robotics and Department for Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London. He runs a number of innovative, team-focused multi-disciplinary postgraduate courses and serves as NIHR ENT Clinical Research Lead for North West London. He serves as a council member for the British Laryngological Association and Honorary Secretary for ENT UK. Joseph ManjalyJoseph Manjaly is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Royal National ENT Hospital and University College London Hospitals, specialising in Otology and Auditory Implant surgery. He completed higher surgical training in the London North Thames region and subsequently undertook a fellowship in otology and hearing implantation at Cambridge University Hospitals. He has held an interest in teaching since his undergraduate years at Bristol University and has co-authored a number of trainee textbooks widely used in the UK and abroad. He has been actively involved in training issues regionally and nationally, holding a number of committee roles. As well as being a keen sports fan he is also a musician who performs in a band semi-professionally around the country.Raekha KumarRaekha Kumar is a Consultant Radiologist at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, specialising in Head and Neck Radiology. She graduated from Imperial College, completed her MRCP and then trained in Radiology at Northwick Park Hospital in London. She has developed an interest in teaching. Her achievements include being involved with curriculum development for an international medical school in Singapore, Imperial College undergraduate teaching, supporting post graduate education as well as providing teaching material for the Royal College of Radiologists. She has a keen interest in research, having held an honorary research post at the Royal Marsden Hospital, obtained several research publications and presented at national and international conferences. Alex WellerAlex Weller is a consultant head and neck radiologist at St George’s Hospital, London. Building upon a Master’s  degree in chemistry (Keble College, Oxford), he graduated from St George’s Hospital Medical School, before completing his Radiology training with a  Medical Doctorate in Functional Imaging inOncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research in the UK.  He has subspecialist interest in head and neck imaging, with focus on novel functional imaging techniques for both oncologic and non-oncologic disease, with collaborative training and research experience at St George’s, University College and the Royal Marsden Hospitals in London as well as active contribution to the British Society of Head and Neck Imaging.

• On Call Modality Selection: Is the plain film dead?.- Head & Neck Ultrasound for Acute Admissions and in the Lump Clinic.- CT Workhorse.- Head and Neck Fascial Planes and Deep Neck Space Imaging.- Imaging the Unified Airway.- Friday Night Head and Neck Trauma.- Imaging Of The Temporal Bone in Hearing Loss.- Radiology of Head and Neck Cancer.- Sino-nasal Radiology.- Benign salivary gland disease:  Imaging , diagnosis and minimal invasive treatment.- Radiological imaging for non-traumatic paediatric ENT conditions.- Evidence Based Imaging for Thyroid and Parathyroid Disease Management.- Imaging of the Lateral Skull Base and Cochlear Implants.- Anterior skull base and sinonasal surgery: dilemmas and complexities in management.- Imaging of Swallow.- The problematic middle ear and Cholesteatoma.- Challenges in Sinonasal & Anterior Skull Base Imaging.- Dysphagia following treatment for head and neck cancer.- Imaging Considerations for Laryngeal Cancer Surgery.- 3D Imaging, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacture in Complex Reconstruction & Craniofacial Surgery Planning.- Imaging for Anterior Neck Trauma.