Professor Michael Gleeson, MD, FRCS.

Michael Gleeson is Professor of Otolaryngology and Skull Base Surgery at the Institute of Neurology in University College London. His clinical practice extends across the major teaching hospitals of Guy’s, Kings and St Thomas’ on the south bank of the river Thames and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery on the north bank. He is also honorary consultant skull base surgeon to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children. He founded the European Skull Base Society in 1993 and is President Elect designate of the Section of Otology of the Royal Society of Medicine to take office in 2006.

He qualified in Dentistry with honours at the University of London in 1971 and also in Medicine in 1976. After house appointments in Oral Medicine, General Medicine and General Surgery at Guy’s Hospital, he went to the University of Southampton to gain experience in Neurosurgery and to begin his career in Otolaryngology. In 1980 he returned to Guy’s Hospital as a registrar and then senior registrar in Otolaryngology. A chief residency in Otolaryngology was undertaken in Seattle at the University of Washington, USA with Professor Charles Cummings, in 1983-1984 and a year later in 1985 he became skull base fellow to Professor Ugo Fisch at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. On return to the UK he was appointed Senior Lecturer to the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in London. He obtained his MD from the University of London in 1993 on quantitative and ultrastrucural features of the human peripheral vestibular system.

In 1994 Professor Gleeson was appointed Hunterian Professor to the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a year later became Professor of Otolaryngology and Skull Base Surgery to Kings College London. In 2002, Professor Gleeson moved his personal chair to the Institute of Neurology in University College London on being appointed to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square, London

Professor Gleeson has received many awards most notable of which are the Watson Williams Lecture (1998), Foundation Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of Australia (2003), the James Yearsley Lecture and Medal (2004) and in the Leegard Lecture of the Norwegian Otolaryngological Society (2005). He the Editor-in-Chief of “Skull Base – an interdisciplinary approach” and the General Editor of Scott-Brown’s Otorhinolaryngology. He is a member of the editorial board of Clinical Otolaryngology & Allied Sciences, and Auris Nasus Larynx. For the University of London, Professor Gleeson is the Chairman of the Semon Lecture Board and the George Davey Howells Prize Board. He served on the Executive of the European Skull Base Society for 8 years after its foundation in 1993 and has been re-appointed for a further 4 years (2005-2009).

Professor Gleeson’s clinical practice is almost entirely devoted to skull base and parotid surgery. He has lectured worldwide on these topics and has written 5 books, numerous chapters, research papers, and reviews on clinical problems.

Guy’s Hospital,
London, SE1 9RT, UK
Tel: 00442071882215
Fax: 00442071882206
Email michael.gleeson@kcl.ac.uk

Dept of Neurotology
The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery,
Queen Square,
London, WC1N 3BG
Tel: 00442078373611 Ex 3611
Fax: 00442078298775