Mr Yakubu Karagama

Sub-specialties: Laryngology, Ear Nose and Throat, Swallowing Disorders, Breathing Problems, Surgery for Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, Snoring, Sinusitis, Blocked Ears, Ear Infections, Dizziness, Sore Throat, Tonsillitis.

Overview

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Overview

Mr Yakubu Karagama is an ENT Surgeon with a special interest in voice, swallowing, airway disorders, snoring, and sleep apnoea base at OneWelbeck.

About Mr Yakubu Karagama

Mr Yakubu Karagama is an internationally-renowned ENT Surgeon. He specialises in general Ear, Nose and Throat problems. Additionally, Mr Karagama has a special interest in professional voice problems, general voice disorders, swallowing disorders, airway issues, snoring, sleep apnoea, and nasal & sinus problems.

Mr Karagama leads the laryngology service at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital, one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals in London. He is the founder and course director for the London and Manchester Phonosurgery course. Mr Karagama is keen on voice research, having obtained an MSc in Advance Voice Research at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2005.

Mr Karagama has presented his research and won prizes at national and international conferences, including the North of England Otolaryngological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the British Association Conference of Otolaryngologists (BACO).

He has authored and co-authored over 50 publications, is a visiting Senior Lecturer at King's College, London. Mr Karagama was Secretary of the British Laryngological Association. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music Manchester.

Mr Karagama is a leading surgeon in hypoglossal nerve stimulation implant in the treatment of sleep apnoea, and performed the first UK cases in 2022.

He has been invited as a key note speaker in several international and national conferences in the field of laryngology. Mr Karagama also supervises resident doctors and medical students.

Areas of Expertise

Mr Yakubu Karagama treats a range of conditions including:

Hoarse voice
Swallowing Difficulty
Breathing Difficulty
Retrograde cricopharyngeal Dysfunction (RCPD)
Pharnygeal Pouch
Inability to Burp
Spasmodic dysphonia
Snoring
Sleep Apnoea
Blocked Nose
Sinus Infection
Blocked Ears
Ear Infection
Dizziness
Sore Throat
Tonsillitis

He offers the following treatments:

Vocal Cord Injection
Thyroplasty
Microlarngoscopy
Pharyngoscopy
Laser Laryngeal Surgery
Laser Cricopharyngeal Myotomy for Pharyngeal Pouch
Snoring surgery
Sleep Apnoea surgery
Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty
Botox injection for Spasmodic Dysphonia
Botox Injection for Inability to Burp
Balloon dilatation pharyngeal stricture
Tonsillectomy
Septoplasty
Turbinoplasty/turbinate reduction
Functional sinus surgery
Endoscopic sinus surgery

Additional Information

Awards

Poster 2nd Prize Award for Best Poster Presentation, British Rhinological Society 6th Annual Meeting, London, 2007.
Merit MSc Advanced Clinical Research in Voice, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005.
Registrar’s prize for best oral presentation, North of England Otolaryngological Society Autumn Meeting, Wakefield, 2005.
Munro Black Registrar’s prize for best oral presentation, Northern Deanery Otolaryngological CPD meeting held in Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, 2005.

International speaker

Faculty, 23rd Congress da FORL, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept 2024
Faculty, 1st Helsinki Winter Laryngeal dystonia course, Finland, Jan 2024
Organising committee, 1st Joint Conference of British Laryngological Association and Union of European Phoniatrics at RSM, London, United Kingdom, Sept 2023
18th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Academy of Otolaryngology, Dubai, UAE, May 2023
Faculty, Neurolaryngology Workshop, Jena, Germany, Nov 2023
Faculty, 9th Laryngeal reinnervation course, Rouen, France, Nov 2023
Faculty, Neurolaryngology Workshop, Jena, Germany, Nov 2022
Faculty, Pan European Voice Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, Aug. 2022
Faculty, 8th Laryngeal reinnervation course, Rouen, France, Nov 2022
Faculty, Neurolaryngology Workshop virtual, Jena, Germany, Nov 2021
Faculty, 7th Laryngeal reinnervation course, Rouen, France, Nov 2021
Faculty, 5th Laryngeal reinnervation course, Rouen, France, Nov 2019
Faculty, Neurolaryngology Workshop, Jena, Germany, Nov 2019
Speaker, Voice Istanbul Conference, Istanbul, Türkiye, Sept 2019
Speaker, CEORL-HNS, Brussels, Belgium, June 2019
Faculty, 4th Laryngeal reinnervation course, Rouen, France, Jun 2019
Speaker, Turkish Otolaryngology Congress, Antalya, Türkiye, April 2019

Memberships

Royal College of Surgeons, England
Member and Council, British Laryngological Association
ENT UK
European Laryngological Society
International Phonosurgeon Association
Union of European Phoniatricians
British Association of Performing Arts

Clinical Posts

OneWelbeck, London
Circle Health Group, Blackheath Hospital, London
Circle Health Group, The Alexandra Hospital, Manchester
HCA, London Bridge
Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, London

Research Highlights

Office-based transnasal oesophagoscopy: Evaluating the safety, efficacy and application in head and neck cancer patients.
Grewal R, Tantichirasakul N, Miller BJ, Watson N, Karagama Y.
Clin Otolaryngol. 2022 Jan;47(1):218-223. doi: 10.1111/coa.13868. Epub 2021 Oct 7.
PMID: 34581024

Breathing Synchronised Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation with Inspire for Untreated Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnoea/Hypopnoea Syndrome: A Simulated Cost-Utility Analysis from a National Health Service Perspective.
Blissett DB, Steier JS, Karagama YG, Blissett RS.
Pharmacoecon Open. 2021 Sep;5(3):475-489. doi: 10.1007/s41669-021-00266-7. Epub 2021 Apr 28.
PMID: 33913119

Abelchia: inability to belch/burp-a new disorder? Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction (RCPD).
Karagama Y.
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2021 Dec;278(12):5087-5091. doi: 10.1007/s00405-021-06790-w. Epub 2021 Apr 24.
PMID: 33893849

Applications of Office-Based 445 nm Blue Laser Transnasal Flexible Laser Surgery: A Case Series and Review of Practice.
Miller BJ, Abdelhamid A, Karagama Y.
Ear Nose Throat J. 2021 Feb;100(1_suppl):105S-112S. doi: 10.1177/0145561320960544. Epub 2020 Sep 24.
PMID: 32970490

Use of proton pump inhibitors to treat persistent throat symptoms: multicentre, double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial.
O'Hara J, Stocken DD, Watson GC, Fouweather T, McGlashan J, MacKenzie K, Carding P, Karagama Y, Wood R, Wilson JA.
BMJ. 2021 Jan 7;372:m4903. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4903.
PMID: 33414239

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