Professor Neil Tolley

Professor Neil Tolley completed his undergraduate training and MD in Cardiff, Professor Tolley moved to London in 1988 as registrar to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. His post-graduate training was in London, South Africa, Australia and the US. He was accredited as an Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon in 1992 and appointed ENT surgeon to St Mary’s Hospital in 1994.

Professor Tolley is the pioneer of Robotic Head & Neck Surgery in the UK and has over 250 peer-reviewed publications. He has supervised 7 MSc, 3 MD and 8 PhD students, authored books, written many book chapters and presents frequently at national and international meetings.

Prof Tolley has held several appointments on regional and national committees: member of the SAC, SAC Liaison for the West Midlands, national simulation lead for ENT and member of the BAETS executive.

He is course director for the national ST3 induction course held at Imperial and director for Thames ENT Simulation training and course organiser for the Imperial MSc Surgical Innovation. He holds a twice yearly DOHNS course.

He was conferred Professor at Imperial College in 2016 and is clinical lead at Imperial for ENT-Head & Neck Surgery, Audiology and Oral Surgery and has been conferred sector lead for ENT during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Professor Tolley has visited Egypt and India over several years to teach and perform surgery and is an honorary member of the Indian Society of Thyroid Surgery.

He is a keen sportsman and played at school-boy level for Aston Villa before commencing medical school. He is a master Scuba diver.

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