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Mr Panas Symeonides

Consultant ENT, Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base Surgeon

MBChB, MRCS, DOHNS, FRCS

Practises at: Thornbury Hospital

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Personal profile

Mr Symeonides is a Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat, Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base Surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

He graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2007 (MBChB with distinction). He worked in the NHS and completed his Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) specialty at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

Mr Symeonides is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England and achieved the post-graduate qualifications of MRCS, DOHNS and FRCS. He was awarded the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) from Athens and has been on the GMC’s Specialist Register as an ENT Consultant since July 2016. In August 2017, he completed a one year post-CCT Fellowship in Advanced Rhinology & Endoscopic Anterior Skull Base Surgery at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

Mr Symeonides is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds and is on the faculty of national and international courses. He is involved in research and has published articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.

Clinical interests

  • Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS)
  • Transnasal endoscopic approach to pituitary and anterior skull base tumours
  • Functional rhinoplasty (nose job)
  • Endoscopic DCR (treatment for runny eyes)
  • Minimally invasive procedures for nasal obstruction and sinuses like turbinate reduction and balloon sinuplasty

Professional memberships

  • General Medical Council
  • Royal College of Surgeons (England)
  • British Medical Association
  • British and European Rhinological Society
  • Medical Protection Society
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