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Andrew C Swift Author & Editor

Andrew C. SwiftLiverpool Head and Neck CentreLiverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool, UK
President of ENT UK and Consultant ENT surgeon and Rhinologist at the Liverpool Head and Neck Centre, Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University, and University of Liverpool until 2021.
Qualified from the University of Sheffield in 1977; early surgical training in Bristol; specialist ENT training in Bristol and Liverpool. Research year (1984–85) to investigate the physiological effects of nasal obstruction, supported by an MRC research grant. Appointed as consultant at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, in 1989.
One of the first ENT surgeons to introduce endoscopic sinus surgery to the UK (1989). Special interests include sinonasal papilloma, frontal sinus disorders, the endonasal repair of CSF leaks and septorhinoplasty. An enthusiastic teacher who has organised many courses and conferences.
Previous examiner and Assessor for the Intercollegiate FRCS-ORL; European Board examiner for ORL; recent member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Full honorary member of the German ENT Society.
President of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 2004–5, President of the Section of Laryngology and Rhinology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2011–12 and President of the British Rhinological Society 2009–2012; Co-President with Professor Valerie Lund - European Rhinologic Society conference, London April 2018.
Sean Carrie, MDFreeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustUniversity of NewcastleNewcastle upon Tyne, UK
Mr. Sean Carrie has been a Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Freeman Hospital and University ofNewcastle upon Tyne since 1999. His particular interests are disorders of the nose and sinuses in adults and children. He also has a pituitary and anterior skull base practice.
Sean is Past President of both the British Rhinological Society and the European Rhinologic Society. He has had leadership roles in both undergraduate education locally and postgraduate education nationally. He was QA lead for the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Specialist Advisory Committee in Otolaryngology. He is also the chairman and convenor of both the Newcastle Sinus Surgery and Pituitary courses and is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University.
He has collaborative research interests in sinonasal inflammation. He is Chief Investigator of the NIHR funded ‘NAIROS’ multicentre RCT of septoplasty and is a co-recipient in the NIHR ‘NATTINA’ grant assessing clinical and cost effectiveness of adult tonsillectomy.
Christopher de Souza, MDLilavati HospitalHoly Family HospitalHoly Spirit HospitalMumbai, MaharashtraIndia
Dr. Christopher de Souza has been a Visiting Assistant Professor in Otorhinolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery since 1993 at both State University of New York, Downstate Health Sciences University and at Louisiana University Health Science Center in Shreveport. After teaching and pursuing otology, neurotology, and surgery training around the world—in India, the United States, and Italy—Chris was made a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1994. In the same year, he became the second person in the world to be awarded the Orbit Silver Medal for his seminal work on the nose and paranasal sinuses.
In 2018, Dr. de Souza was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He received a second FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland in 2022. Heis the founder of the Hearing disability Clinic in Mumbai, India and deals with Implantable Hearing Devices and is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Head and Neck Surgery. Dr Christopher has published 40 postgraduate ENT Textbooks, many of which have gone into another edition.