Professor Peter Rea

Professor Rea is President of The Royal Society of Medicine section of Otology for 2023-2024, and is past-President of the British Society of Otology (2020-2022), Honorary Professor of Balance Medicine at De Montfort University, Honorary Professor to the Departments of Neuroscience and Informatics at the University of Leicester, and was Chairman of the British Society of Neuro-otology from 2013-2019. After obtaining a first class honours degree at Cambridge University, he studied clinical medicine at Oxford. His training took him through the major teaching hospitals of London including Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. Further specialist training was obtained at leading centres in Sydney, Australia and at Harvard, Duke, and Cincinnati in the USA. He was awarded the Gold Medal of The Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Otology, for his studies. He qualified as a doctor in 1991, and has been consultant ENT Surgeon at University Hospitals of Leicester since 2004. He runs an active research programme into aspects of dizziness, hearing loss, and tinnitus and has published widely in major international journals on subjects ranging from ear surgery, to Meniere's Disease, BPPV, dizziness, nasal sinus disorders, and children's ENT diseases. He has written many chapters for adult and paediatric text books of ear, nose and throat surgery and is on the academic faculty of 8 national and international conferences. His reputation has led to regular requests to lecture and teach on his work to colleagues in ENT around the world. His private practice in Leicester is by his wife, Yannette, assisted by a secretarial team. Surgery, and clinics for all ENT disorders are undertaken at both Spire and Nuffield Hospitals in Leicester, whilst balance investigations along with clinics for all ENT disorders are undertaken at The London Road Clinic in Leicester (www.londonroadclinic.co.uk).

I run clinics for both adults and children. My balance and dizziness clinics attract patients from all over the world. Based at the London Road Clinic in Leicester I have a full suite of balance investigation tools and a dedicated team of scientists and therapists to support my patients. Ear surgery (otology) clinics covering all aspects of hearing loss, tinnitus, ear infection, and ear pain with surgery ranging from grommets and Eustachian tube dilation and occlusion, through to complex mastoid surgery for cholesteatoma (of which I often undertake 3 per week), stapedectomy, BAHA, and middle ear reconstruction, and specialist balance operations including posterior canal plugging for BPPV, and intra-tympanic injections or endolymphatic sac surgery for Meniere's Disease. I am equally happy to remove the wax from your ears too! Children's clinics cover all aspects of paediatric ENT including tonsillitis, glue ear, tongue tie, nose bleeds, and blocked noses and allergy. Rhinology clinics may employ smell testing or endoscopic examination in clinic with a small camera to assess your nasal airways. Most of my patients can have their blocked noses, facial pain, allergy, or sinuses disease treated medically, but a wide variety of surgeries are also available including balloon sinuplasty. Throat and swallowing difficulties, and hoarseness are assessed on a daily basis and endoscopic examination to exclude serious illnesses can be undertaken at your first visit with a full range of additional investigations if required.