Mr Jeremy Lavy

Mr Jeremy Lavy is a consultant Ear Surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, part of University College London Hospitals.  His practice is exclusively ear surgery with a particular emphasis on hearing reconstruction.  He has over 20 years experience of working as a specialist ear surgeon.

He qualified in 1988 from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London.  He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1993 in surgery in general and in ENT surgery in 1995.  He completed his training in 2000 and was awarded FRCS (ORL-HNS).  He was appointed as a consultant Ear Surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in the same year.

Over the following 20 years he has been:

• One of Britains top 100 children’s doctors, The Times 2012
• Training programme director for ENT in North Tames region 2000-2010
• Director of the UCLH/RNTNEH Cochlear Implant Programme  2005 – 2017
• Clinical Lead for Surgery, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital 2014-2017
• Board member the British Society for Otology 2014-2018
• Board member and vice chair British Cochlear Implant Group 2007-2010
• Upcoming position: President Elect of the Otology Section, The Royal Society of Medicine 2021-22

He is the leading stapedectomy surgeon in the UK performing between 150 and 200 stapes operations per year (www.stapedectomy.co.uk.)  He specialises in all hearing restoration and reconstruction procedures pioneering in the UK the development of this surgery under local anaesthetic. He is UK senior advisor for GEO (Global ENT Outreach) establishing the teaching of ear surgery and building a temporal bone laboratory in Mekele, Ethiopia. He also has close links with Ear Aid Nepal performing and teaching ear surgery in Pokara.