Professor Neil Sharma

Neil graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2002, and completed his higher surgical training in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in 2017. He was awarded his PhD in 2014, for work examining the role of a novel proto-oncogene in the aetiology of thyroid cancer, and continued post-doctoral research in Birmingham while completing his clinical training. He served as President for the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training between 2016 and 2017. ? Neil received further advanced Head, Neck, Endocrine and reconstructive surgery training under the internationally renowned surgeons Mr Nick McIvor and Mr John Chaplin in Auckland, New Zealand, before returning in 2018 to the University of Birmingham as a Clinician Scientist and Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon at University Hospital Birmingham where he is the lead for thyroid cancer. ? Neil is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and is on the Specialist Register for Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery with the General Medical Council. He is the only ENT Surgeon in the UK to be conferred as a Fellow of the European Board of Surgery Endocrine Surgery Section and is a member of the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons. He is an active member of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons, for which he also sits on the Executive Committee, the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists, ENTUK and the Society for Endocrinology. ? Neil has lectured and published widely on the subject of head and neck/thyroid cancer. He has a strong clinical and translational research focus on thyroid disease, and has a significant research portfolio on qualitative research in head and neck cancer as well as global surgery to improve outcomes for head and neck malignancies.

Neil has a strong interest in all aspects of head and neck surgery. His main focus is on surgical oncology, and in particular surgery of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. He has a high volume thyroid surgery practice, carrying out over 100 thyroid operations per year. He specialises in complex and revision thyroid surgery for benign and malignant disease, including advanced differentiated thyroid cancer, medullary thyroid cancer, thyrotoxicosis, and surgery for those with a genetic predisposition to thyroid cancer. He leads the thyroid cancer service at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and runs the regional genetic thyroid oncology clinic, receiving referrals from around the country. He also works with the ENT team at Birmingham Children's Hospital, operating on children affected by thyroid and parathyroid disease, and is then able to continue their care and follow up himself at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital once they reach 18 years old. Neil also treats all forms of cancer affecting the neck, pharynx and larynx. He is an active member of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons and British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists. Neil is regularly invited to speak on head and neck/thyroid disease at national and international conferences.