MR JOHN WATKINSON

*** I am currently focused on providing medico-legal opinion, providing support and mentoring for surgical colleagues but I am not longer clinically working *** I qualified from the University of London and trained in ENT, Head and Neck and Plastic Surgery at Guys Hospital and the Royal Marsden. I am currently a consultant ENT, Head and Neck and Thyroid surgeon at Coventry and Warwick University Hospital, The Royal Marsden Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. I was a Consultant ENT, Head and Neck and Thyroid surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Birmingham NHS Trust, until 2017. I specialise in ENT, head and neck, thyroid and parathyroid surgery (and can offer minimally invasive techniques) including benign thyroid disease and thyroid cancer. I have a large thyroid practice and carried out approximately 5,000 head and neck treatments and 3,000 thyroidectomies. I actively contribute to thyroid research programmes with numerous publications on all aspects of head and neck surgery in peer reviewed journals. Patient safety is of paramount importance to me and so I am involved in making recommendations for a number of National guidelines including, NICE, BTA, BEHNO, DAHNO and ENT-UK. I love to teach and want to raise standards in medical education for future generations of doctors. I was a honorary senior clinical lecturer at University Hospital Birmingham and now, a teacher of anatomy at University College London. This role complements my role as the Chief Editor of Stell and Maran, textbook of head and neck surgery and Scott-Brown's Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery textbook. Together with Mr Adrian Drake-Lee, the late Roy Castle and Peter Scudamore, I helped establish the ‘Get-A-Head’ Charitable Trust which to date has raised over eight million pounds and has helped fund the purchase of vital equipment, research and education. Further information can be obtained at www.getahead.org