Mrs Hala Kanona

Sub-specialties: Balance, Tinnitus, Ears, Otology, Ear Nose and Throat, Hearing Loss, Dizziness, Ear Discharge, Facial Weakness, Blocked Ears, Glue Ear, Eustachian Tube Dysfunction, Cholesteatoma, Otosclerosis, Eardrum Retraction, Vestibular Neuronitis, Labyrinthitis, Tympanoplasty, Ossiculoplasty.Stapedectomy, Meatoplasty, Canalplasty, Bone Conduction Implants, Middle Ear Implants, Cochlear Implants, Wax Impaction, Acute Otitis Media, Ossicular Chain Disruption, Tympanosclerosis, Eardrum Perforation, BPPV, Ménière’s Disease, Superior Semi Circular Canal Dehiscence, Bell’s Palsy, Ramsey Hunt Syndrome, Grommets, Myringoplasty, Mastoidectomy, Revision Mastoid Surgery including Obliteration, Labyrinthectomy, Facial Nerve Decompression, Pulsatile tinnitus surgery, Microsuction, Foreign body removal, Ossiculoplasty.

Overview

02036532007

Overview

Mrs Hala Kanona is a leading Consultant Otologist and Auditory Implant Surgeon at The Royal National ENT Hospital, University College London Hospitals. She is passionate about hearing restoration and provides the full spectrum of care for patients suffering with hearing loss, ear discharge, dizziness/balance issues, tinnitus and facial weakness.

About Mrs Hala Kanona

Mrs Hala Kanona is a leading Consultant Otologist and Auditory Implant Surgeon at The Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, University College London Hospitals. She sub-specialises in the field of Otology (hearing and balance disorders) and Auditory implantation.

She undertook Higher Surgical Training in prestigious centres such as Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Royal London Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust) and the Royal National ENT Hospital (UCLH). She was awarded the Advanced Otology and Auditory Implant Fellowship where she works and obtained the CWJ Fellowship Grant to visit the illustrious Radbound University Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Mrs Kanona is passionate about hearing restoration and complex ear surgery and provides the full spectrum of care for patients suffering with hearing loss, ear discharge, dizziness/balance issues, tinnitus and facial weakness. She is highly experienced and takes a kind and compassionate approach to her patients.

Her extensive experience has been sought both nationally and internationally where she lectures within her field at courses and conferences and teaches as faculty at Temporal bone dissection courses in the UK and Denmark. She also leads and runs an Advanced Otology and Auditory Implants Course for junior Consultants at the Royal National ENT Hospital (UCLH), which is the first of its kind. She serves as a Medical Advisor for Facial Palsy UK and is a core member of the Facial Function multidisciplinary team.

Mrs Kanona is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (England), a member of the British Society of Otology and British Cochlear Implant Group. She takes an active role in research concerning the fields of otology, neuro-otology and auditory implantation with over 30 peer reviewed publications and is co-author chapters in 3 ENT textbooks. She is a reviewer for the Journal of Laryngology and Otology and The Journal of International Advanced Otology and regularly reviews textbooks for the ENT and Audiology News Journal.

You can reach Mrs Kanona's PA at: hbrazil@kmsprofessionals.co.uk

Areas of Expertise

Mrs Kanona treats a range of conditions including:

Mrs Kanona performs a range of diagnostics and treatments, including:

hearing tests
microsuction
foreign body removal
grommets, myringoplasty/tympanoplasty
ossiculoplasty
stapes surgery
cholesteatoma surgery
pulsatile tinnitus surgery
ear canal surgery
cochlear implant surgery
bone conduction implant surgery

Additional Information

Professional awards:

2022 British Cochlear Implant Group Award, Cardiff
2020 CWJ Foundation Fellowship to Nijmegen
2020 British Cochlear Implant Group Award, Nottingham
2019 RAF Prize, Otolaryngology Travelling Club, London

Memberships:

The Royal College of Surgeons, England
ENT UK, The British Society of Otology
British Cochlear Implant Group
Facial Palsy UK

Research Highlights

Evaluation of the Patient with Facial Palsy: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Kanona H, Saeed SR, Randhawa P, Kimber R, Rodger A, Khalil S, Andrews P. Facial Plast Surg. 2024 Feb 1. doi: 10.1055/s-0044-1779046.

Migration and other electrode complications following cochlear implantation. Magos T, Kanona H, Morley S, Khalil S, Shaida A. Cochlear Implants Int. 2024 Feb 21:1-9. doi: 10.1080/14670100.2024.2318838

Cochlear implant performance in patients with Meniere’s disease and proposed evidence-based protocol for management Kanona H, Forde C, Keating P, Van Rooyen, Bradley J, Mehta N, Manjaly J, Lavy J, Khalil S, Saeed S, Shaida A. Cochlear Implants Int 2022 Sep 1:1-8. Online ahead of print.PMID: 36050279 DOI: 10.1080/14670100.2022.2112998

UK consensus definitions for necrotising otitis externa: a Delphi study. Hodgson SH, Khan MM, Patrick-Smith M, Martinez-Devesa P, Stapleton E, Williams OM, Pretorius P, McNally M, Andersson MI

UK NOE Collaborative. BMJ Open. 2023 Feb 20;13(2):e061349. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061349.

A large case series of temporal bone fractures at a UK major trauma centre with an evidence-based management protocol. Kanona H, Anderson C, Lambert A, Al-Abdulwahed R, O’Byrne L, Vakharia N, Motter D, Offiah C, Adams A, Wareing M, Seymour K, J Laryngol Otol. 2020 Mar 134;(3) 205-21

Major insurers served

If your insurer is not listed, please contact us to confirm your coverage. Please note this does not guarantee coverage or fee assurance. Patients should confirm with their insurer to ensure coverage, check if the doctor is fee-assured, or verify if their policy includes the doctor in question.