Dr. Vinay Kumar Vijayendra is a consultant ENT Surgeon at Vijaya ENT Care Center, Bangalore, India

 He is the youngest winner of the prestigious RAF Cooper Award for new innovation in ENT in 2018 awarded by the Association of otorhinolaryngology of India. He has various other awards to his credit including First prize in consultant video award at ISOCON 2023, 2nd place in Dr. S.L Jaiswal video session 72nd AOICON – Nagpur ,2nd prize in Dr. S.L Jaiswal video session -  75th AOICON – Bangalore 2024

 Awarded a Travel Grant to South Korea for best abstract submission in Otology- International Congress of ORL-HNS 2023 in Seoul , South Korea

Winner of ISOCON international travel fellowship to University Hospital of Modena – under Prof Daniele Marchioni (2025)

 Dr Vinay has been a faculty at various international conferences in various countries and also at many state and national conferences

 He has also performed live surgical and temporal bone dissections at various State, national and International conferences

 He is the co-author of the book "Otology demystified". He also has several journal publications to his name in reputed journals