Ryan Chin Taw Cheong

Mr Cheong is a substantive Consultant ENT and Specialist Sleep Surgeon at the world-leading Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and the Cleveland Clinic London. He is currently the only Consultant ENT Surgeon in the UK with a full-time NHS practice exclusively in snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea.

He is a multi-award-winning surgeon recognised by prestigious institutions such as the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the British Rhinological Society. He completed his extensive higher surgical training in the full breadth of ENT at world-class institutions including the Royal Marsden Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and the Royal London Hospital.

Mr Cheong successfully performed the first Genio Nyxoah hypoglossal nerve implants and the first female Inspire hypoglossal nerve implants for sleep apnoea in the UK. As the first surgeon in the country to accomplish this, he has been featured on the BBC, Sky News, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, and other major media outlets.

He is the Founder and Course Director of the first International Sleep Surgery Course in the UK, accredited by ENT UK.

He is also the first surgeon in the UK to have completed the Royal Society of Medicine Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship at the Stanford University Hospital Sleep Medicine Division, and the Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust Travelling Fellowship at the Asia Sleep Surgery Centre in Singapore.

He has delivered more than 30 international and national academic presentations and published in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals such as The Lancet and JAMA. He is a regularly invited keynote international speaker at scientific meetings and has held multiple leadership positions in national ENT societies, including the British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery.

Mr Cheong is passionate and committed to ensuring that every patient under his care receives world-class, personalised treatment options.