Haytham Kubba trained in the UK including time as a research registrar at the Medical Research Council’s Institute for Hearing Research and as clinical fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.  He has been a consultant in children’s ENT in Glasgow since 2003 and is an Honorary Associate Professor in Child Health at Glasgow University.  He established Scotland's National Service for Paediatric Airway Reconstruction Surgery in 2006.  He has recently returned from an 18-month sabbatical at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.  His clinical interests are neurodisability, head and neck malformations and airway surgery.  He has published over 150 research papers.  He is the President of ENT Scotland and immediate Past-President of the British Association for Paediatric Otolaryngology.