The AOT Pod

In this episode, we officially launch season two of The AOT POD following huge success with season one hosted by Georgina Wellstead and Joshua Michaels. Introducing your new hosts Livy Kenyon (ST7 ENT registrar based in Thames Valley) & Kala Kumaresan (ST6 ENT registrar based in Yorkshire). We thank the ENT UK foundation, our AOT members and listeners worldwide for their support. To share your thoughts and for collaboration please contact us at [email protected] we look forward to hearing from you!

This episode welcomes Ding Yang, President of the BRS Juniors 2025/26 committee and Mr Rajeev Advani, consultant facial plastic, rhinology and anterior skull base surgeon based at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Mr Advani is a previous fellow from St George's Hospital in London and talks to us today about the assessment and surgical management of a rhinoplasty patient.
Thank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT Youtube page.

Today's episode takes us to Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust where we are joined by Mr Karan Kapoor who takes us through the approaches towards managing a patient with multinodular goitre. His useful insight comes alongside his role as a lead of a well-established FRCS revision course and some unexpected knowledge on giraffe anatomy!
Thank you to the ENTUK Foundation and AOT for supporting this educational venture and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. Please subscribe and review our podcast. For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT Youtube page.

The AOT Pod has great pleasure in welcoming ENT registrar Mr Josh Michaels and Mr Vikas Acharya, Past President of the BRS Juniors Committee and Consultant Rhinologist, Facial Plastic and ENT Surgeon at UCLH to The AOT Pod to discuss hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia. This condition is rare but important, as the pathophysiologically, multifaceted disease profile and surgical considerations are particularly nuanced compared with simple epistaxis.
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Welcome to another episode of the AOT Pod where we are pleased to welcome Mr Gaurav Chaudhury a consultant otologist at The Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield alongside Ms Lauren Bolton a registrar in Yorkshire. In this episode we discuss tinnitus, addressing the varied associated pathologies, its complex pathogenesis in benign tinnitus and the investigative strategies that allow for targeted treatment options.
For more information on the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, please visit our website aotent.org where you can sign up for free membership. Further educational materials can also be found on our AOT Youtube page.