CAREER SUMMARY
Khalid Ghufoor qualified from the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK in 1990. He initially trained in General Surgery, achieving his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1995. He trained in otolaryngology on the North Thames ENT Training Programme, working in several ENT departments in North London including St. Mary's Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, The Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital. During his training he developed specialist skills in minimal access surgery for cancers of the larynx, pharynx and oral cavity. He also worked in the skull base centre at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

He was appointed to the Consultant Staff of St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals in 2002 and is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary Westfield Medical College. His principal interest lies in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery but he continues to maintain a general adult and paediatric ENT practice, and his NHS practice includes weekly paediatric and general ENT clinics.

He specialises in throat problems, sleep apnoea and snoring, voice disorders and in tumours of the pharynx, larynx and salivary glands. He is part of the multidisciplinary team including radiotherapists which is based in the Head and Neck Unit at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Conventional surgical techniques for tumours are supplemented by the endoscopic transoral laser technique, in which the carbon dioxide laser is used to extirpate cancers and a variety of other pathologies without needing to incise the neck.