Nair, Mr Salil

MB ChB, MD, FRCS ORL-HNS  

Speciality

Otorhinolaryngology

Sub-speciality

Rhinology, Endoscopic Anterior Skull Base Surgery

Training and Education

I am a consultant ENT surgeon with a special interest in Rhinology. My postgraduate ENT training was in the North East of England based in Newcastle. During my training I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship to undertake a full time research project at the University of Newcastle. This led to my MD in 2002.

Experience

Mr Nair has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since October 2003.

I was the first UK trainee to be selected as Professor P-J Wormald’s Rhinology Fellow in 2001 and spent twelve months in Adelaide under his tutelage.  I developed specialist skills in anterior skull base surgery, advanced endoscopic sinus surgery (nasal polyps and chronic sinusitis) and minimally invasive lacrimal surgery (surgery for watery eyes).

In October 2003, I was appointed jointly to the County Hospital, Winchester and Southampton University Hospitals. I have an honorary contract with Salisbury Hospital and also provide an ENT service at Andover War Memorial Hospital.
I see and operate on general ENT problems and have developed a specialised Rhinology service in particular frontal sinus disease and image guidance surgery, snoring, catarrh, disorders of the sense of smell and facial pain.

I have an ongoing interest in research including allergic fungal sinusitis, allergy, rhinitis, nasal polyposis and I am the Research Director for the Wessex ENT higher surgical training programme. I tutor on a number of practical Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) courses and Intercollegiate FRCS Exam courses. In 2006, I established the First Advanced Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Course in the UK. 

Key achievements

National Rhinology/Skull Base Fellowship Award 2008
Elected to the Section of Laryngology and Rhinology at the Royal Society of Medicine - 2006
MD Awaded 2002
1st International Rhinology Fellow with Professor PJ Wormald 2001
Intercollegiate FRCS Exam 2000

Key awards and prizes

The Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship 1999
ENTER Pump Priming Grant 1998
(Ear, Nose and Throat and Eye Research)
NWAHS Research Grant 2001
(North West Adelaide Health Service)

Research

1. Collins, M, Nair, S, Smith, W, Kette, F, Gillis, D, Wormald, PJ.
Role of Local Immunoglobulin E Production in the Pathophysiology of Noninvasive Fungal Sinusitis.
Laryngoscope. 114(7):1242-1246, July 2004

2. Wabnitz DA, Nair S, Wormald P-J. Correlation between preoperative symptom scores, quality of life questionnaires and staging with computed tomography in patients with
chronic rhinosinusitis.
American Journal of Rhinology 2005;19(1):91-96

3. Floreani SR, Nair SB, Switajewski MC, Wormald PJ.
Endoscopic anterior ethmoidal artery ligation: a cadaver study
Laryngoscope. 2006 Jul;116(7):1263-7

4. Primary cultures of human vestibular Schwannoma (VS): a selective growth of
Schwannoma cells
Nair SB, Collins A, Wilson JA, Ramsden RT, Leung HY.
Otology & Neurotology. 28(2):258-263, February 2007.