Autumn News

Leicester Balance Course

Professor Rea has led a further very successful 3-day Leicester Balance Course in September 2022, demonstrating the most advanced balance and dizziness test equipment available in the UK to doctors, audiologists, and physiotherapists from far and wide. A third of the delegates and faculty travelled from overseas to the course with representation from Europe and the USA.

Professor Rea Publishes Significant Paper

Professor Rea, with his previous colleague Mr Bassem Mettias, and the senior infectious diseases consult at the Infirmary Dr David Jenkins, have just published a scientific significant paper: "Ten-year prevalence of acute hospital ENT infections and the impact of COVID: A large population study.” They analysed no less than 16,833 ENT infections in a population of 660,000 covering ear, sinus, and throat infections. A dramatic drop in numbers during COVID was found, which is now on the rise…

British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology Conference

Professor Rea is Academic Vice-Chair of the forthcoming British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology conference in Birmingham in February 2023, where it hoped over 1,500 ENT surgeons and other specialists will attend from around the world, making this much the biggest ENT meeting in the UK. Colleagues from as far away as Australia and respected politicians have accepted his invitation to speak and he looks forward to welcoming as many ENT colleagues as possible to this major clinical meeting.

Meniere’s Registry Project

Professor Rea would once more like to thank all his patients with Meniere’s Disease who contributed to the Meniere’s Registry project. The first paper is completed and has been submitted for publication. Complex data analysis has been on going and the next wave of findings are to be discussed next month and further publications will follow which he hopes will help all patients with Meniere’s, and their doctors, better plan their care. Thanks to the Meniere’s Society for funding this major project.

Vestibular Migraine / PPPD Study

Professor Rea is now recruiting patients with either vestibular migraine or PPPD into a study looking at how the brain functions in these different conditions. Brain recording using skin electrodes (nothing to worry about!) will be used. There is no need to get in touch. Professor Rea will let you know if you might be eligible for the study when he sees you and there is, of course, absolutely no obligation to participate.

Turkey ENT Conference

Professor Rea returned from a fascinating ENT conference in Turkey in October. There were many excellent lectures. He met his colleague Professor Hopkins (who led the discovery of anosmia and COVID) to discuss their joint sessions at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in 2023/4. Professor Rea has been elected President of the Section of Otology of the RSM whilst Professor Hopkins has been elected President of the Section of Laryngology and Rhinology. They will tour the UK giving lectures with invited speakers from around the world, and are arranging the set piece lectures in London’s Wimple Street that the RSM has been famous for for over a Century. It is a huge honour for both of them and we are very proud at The London Road Clinic that Professor Rea has been elected to this prestigious position.

ENT Masterclass World Congress

Professor Rea is off to Bucharest shortly to lecture at the ENT Masterclass World Congress. He has been invited to lead a panel quizzing other international experts on complex (and simple) ear surgeries and balance disorders, as well as giving a formal lecture in the second largest building in the world (the Romanian Parliament building (Palatul Parlamentului) which has 1100 rooms and is bigger than 3000 average sized houses in the UK!).