Haytham Kubba Author

George Browning National and international post-graduate training and continuing medical education has been a strong thread throughout Browning’s career. He was President of the Royal Society Section of Otology, 1999-2000; Chairman of the Academic Board of the Presidents of the 54 Sections, 2001-3; and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2005-7. From 2004 to 2014 he was the editor of Clinical Otolaryngology, and at the end of his tenure, the impact factor of the journal had risen from near the bottom to being 6th of 34 ORL journals. He was the Otology editor for the 2008 7th Edition of Scott Brown’s Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, for which the Glasgow Royal Infirmary ORL team wrote a total of nine chapters.

Emma Stapleton Emma qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and was awarded FRCS(ORL-HNS) in 2014. Following this she completed two years of sub-specialist cochlear, skull base and otology fellowship training in Glasgow and Manchester. She has received scholarships to travel to the USA, Canada and Australia for additional fellowship training. Emma has won over twenty prizes and awards. She has a research focus on inner ear physiology and the management of hearing and balance disorders. She is chair of the ENT UK Sepsis group, co-ordinating national research on this topic. Emma is a senior editor of ENT and Audiology News magazine, a publication with 45,000 readers in 142 countries. She is also editor of ENT UK’s quarterly newsletter, and Communications Lead for BACO 2020. Emma teaches at ENT events internationally and promotes sustainable global health initiatives through her voluntary and editorial work.

Haytham Kubba is an Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon specialising in the care of the child. Haytham is one of only a handful of ENT surgeons in the UK who work exclusively with infants and children. He is actively engaged in research and teaching, running courses and speaking regularly at national and international meetings. He is an Honorary Associate Professor and Subdean for Child Health at Glasgow University. He will be President of the British Association for Paediatric Otolaryngology from September 2024