Special Honours

SPECIAL HONOURS

PRESIDENT'S MEDALS

Stephen Evans

Stephen was a retired Local Government CEO and brought great skills from his working life to benefit ENT UK. He first joined the Finance & Audit Committee in April 2015 and became its chair in September 2015. After several years, he was elected as a Lay trustee. This was a mark of the esteem in which he was held. He taught the concept of governance to the ENT UK trustees and moved the charity to high professional standards. He gave so much of his time voluntarily and the detail he went into was greatly helpful to the medical trustees.

His Honour Judge Simon Barker QC

Simon served ENT UK as a member of the Finance & Audit Committee and helped us greatly in financial governance in spite of his busy work schedule as a sitting judge. His skills as a lawyer and judge proved extremely useful in the newly revamped ENT UK board and his qualifications as an accountant were very helpful to us when choosing new auditors.

MASTER'S CITATIONS

Farah Bhatti
University of Swansea

For her promotion of equality and diversity issues especially in relation to women in surgery and for her support and encouragement to our own speciality and Women in ENT Surgery (WENTS).

Sujana Chandrasekhar
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York and Past President AAO-HNS

For her exemplary global contributions to diversity issues and her promotion of women in leadership in Otolaryngology

Padraig Kitterick
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham

For his leadership role in hearing research and public health initiatives in hearing care and his contributions to evidence-based hearing care through clinical trials.

Jatin P. Shah
Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, New York

For his exceptional efforts and contributions to education and training in head and neck cancer globally over a period of 30 years.

Debara Tucci
Washington, USA

For her nomination as Director of the US National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health and being the first woman to hold this post.

Laura Viani

On her recent election as President-Elect of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, in recognition of her unstinting contributions to surgical leadership, professionalism and service provision.

Professor Ugur Sahin

For pioneering research in mRNA vaccines in cancer and Covid-19 leading to the development of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine’