09-12, 08:30–09:30 (Europe/Istanbul), Laryngology 2
Guri Sandhu is a consultant Laryngologist and Airway Surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He is Professor of Laryngology at Imperial College London. He graduated from the University of London and trained in ENT at The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear, and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. He co-founded, and is the lead, for the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction, and co-founder of the British Laryngological Association. He has 30 years’ experience in the field of Laryngology, with over 150 peer reviewed publications, 20 book chapters and 3 textbooks in Laryngology.
His honours include Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music, ENT Surgeon to The Royal Society of Musicians, Honorary Fellow to The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and the only British ENT surgeon to be made fellow of the American Laryngological Association. He is Past-President for the section of Laryngology and Rhinology at the Royal Society of Medicineand Past-President of the British Laryngological Association.
He graduated from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in 2001 and got a Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine 2010. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral fellow from 2010 to 2011. He worked in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, from 2012. Assistant professor (2015 – 2017), Lecturer (2017-2024). He worked as a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, since 2024. He is a specialist in Laryngology. He majors in clinical and basic Laryngology, particularly voice and swallowing disorders. His research interest is neuronal mechanisms underlying swallowing and vocalization based on electrophysiology.