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Whilst studying medicine at Bristol University, Mr Elliot Benjamin developed an interest in ear, nose and throat, spending his elective at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. He gained excellent general ENT training and developed a sub-specialty interest in paediatrics and otology on the Thames ENT training programme. He has gone on to study under world experts at the House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, USA and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK. As well as a first class honours BSc degree and being awarded honours for his undergraduate medical qualification, Mr Benjamin went on to gain the MRCS and the FRCS (ORL-HNS) as well as the DLO and several postgraduate prizes. He has published numerous peer-reviewed original scientific papers, as well as many abstracts, historical articles and reviews. He has presented work at national and international meetings covering all aspects of ENT. Mr Benjamin has conducted numerous audits and has been involved in running the National Myringoplasty Audit in his role on the EAR UK otology database group. He continues to be heavily involved and enjoys teaching at all levels including students, GPs, nurses and surgeons, having also attended ‘training the teachers’ course as well as being an ‘e-tutor’ for the Royal College of Surgeons.
Mr Benjamin has performed over 8,000 ENT surgical procedures including over 600 major ear operations and nearly 350 paediatric airway and over 5,000 general paediatric procedures. He is employed as a consultant ENT surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, providing a full adult ENT service with a specialist interest in otology and ear surgery. He provides a full paediatric ENT service at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital where he is lead clinician.  He holds the post of honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College, London, with duties in teaching and lecturing medical students, and fellow surgeons.

Mr Paul Chatrath was educated at Cambridge University (MA) and completed higher ear, nose and throat (ENT) training in London with rhinology fellowships abroad in Amsterdam and Chicago. He has also attained a higher research degree (MD). His clinical interests are in rhinology, sinus surgery and rhinoplasty as well as paediatric ENT. Professor Christoph Lees qualified from Guy’s Hospital, London in 1990 obtaining subspecialty accreditation in fetal-maternal medicine under Prof Kypros Nicolaides at the Harris Birthright Centre for Fetal Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London. He was research fellow and lecturer for Prof Stuart Campbell at King’s College and St George’s Hospitals. In 2001 he established the fetal medicine unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge and moved to Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital as Head of Fetal Medicine in 2013. He was made Visiting Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2010. Christoph is an international authority on fetal assessment and in particular the use of Doppler ultrasound to assess the health of the baby. He leads research in this area, scanning in labour, and non-invasive fetal surgery. The latter work led to a £2.2 million grant from the Medical Research Council for first in human studies of high-intensity focused ultrasound in 2017. His collaborations include as chief investigator for the TRUFFLE Study 2002 and as co-founder of the International Working Group of Maternal Haemodynamics. Other posts include board member, International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISUOG) 2015 onwards, chairman of the ISUOG Doppler and vascular imaging group and member of the ISUOG Safety Committee. He has recently authored textbooks on Fetal Growth Restriction (http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/medicine/obstetrics-and-gynecology-reproductive-medicine/placental-fetal-growth-restriction?format=HB ), Maternal Hemodynamics (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/maternal-hemodynamics/E849C90FB5DA20BD06751871467BDEF0) and the widely read Dewhurst’s Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Dewhurst's+Textbook+of+Obstetrics+&+Gynaecology,+9th+Edition-p-9781119211426 ).