About Mr Kelly

As a consultant surgeon in one of the largest hospital trusts in Europe, I have a major surgical interest in neuro-otology and skull base surgery. I have helped set up a Neurofibromatosis Type II clinic, one of only a few in England, which has attracted national funding.

I am advancing minimally invasive sinus surgery and frontal recess surgery by my leading on balloon sinuplasty in Yorkshire. I have achieved funding for the ENT department in Leeds (now close to £200,000 in charity grants in the last 3 years) for the purchase of state of the art equipment. I have trained and am one of few surgeons in the UK to carry out totally endoscopic ear surgery (TEES).

Gerard Kelly ENT Surgeon

I have a commitment to teaching and clinical research and contribute to medical education, training and assessment in my college, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the University of Leeds. I have had a management role in clinical director of the Department of Otololaryngology in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

I am actively involved in teaching and training, having demonstrated this in gaining my Masters of Education (Clinical Education) in 2007 when I carried out a research project in the perceptions of surgical training and I aim to pursue surgical training and medical education as a major part of my career. I have a higher degree from the University of Edinburgh (MD).

Qualifications

University of Leeds

MEd

December 2007

University of Edinburgh

MD

July 2002

Royal College of Surgeons

FRCS ORL-HNS

November 1999

University of Edinburgh

FRCS (Otolaryngology)

January 1996

University of Edinburgh

Surgery in General

June 1994

University of Glasgow

MB ChB

June 1990

Consultant ENT Surgeon

The Leeds teaching hospitals NHS trust and honorary senior lecturer in Otolaryngology, the University of Leeds (from Dec 2001). Former Clinical Director of the Leeds ENT Department. Former Otology Section editor for the e-Learning Department of Health / ENT UK Project. He was the Otology Section for the ENT UK e-Learning Project. Editor of the ENT UK Newsletter. Former member of the panel of question writers, the Intercollegiate Specialty Board in Otolaryngology.

December 2001 - present

Best presentation award,

Mackenzie ENT Society

December 2008

Visiting Professor

University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

June 2001

RSM scholarship to attend and present at the 5th European Skull Base Society Congress

Copenhagen

June 2001

Ethicon Fellowship to attend the Dundee Open Structure Rhinoplasty course

September 2000

A national university award for original research in Pathology

Glasgow Finalist, Cappell Award

1989

Award Scholar

University of Western Ontario

1989

Distinction

Community Medicine (1988), Biology, Chemistry (1985)

August - September 1988

Pathology research project with Dr GBM Lindop, Department of Pathology, Glasgow University, sponsored by the Scottish Home and Health Department. This was the first study to show the morphology of the mammalian peripolar cell. I became familiar with the use of both scanning and transmission electron microscopy techniques. The project was selected as Glasgow University’s entry in the Cappell Award.

March 1997 - September 2001

Project investigating the chemical enhancement of facial nerve repair in the department of clinical neurosciences, the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Mr MA Glasby, reader in experimental neurology. This project involves the creation of a model for facial paralysis and repair using ‘neurotrophic growth factors’ in an effort to improve upon current outcome results. This was the subject of my MD thesis.

September 2006 - September 2007

A prospective study ‘A quantitative study on the differences in perceptions of training requirements between otolaryngology surgical trainers and trainees’. This work formed the basis of my 12000 word thesis in my Masters of Education degree at the University of Leeds. I passed this in October 2007 (with merit). This work was presented to the North of England Otolaryngology Society Spring Meeting in March 2008.

Faculty member of Bradford Part III Revision Course FRCS ORLHNS

2005 - 2009

Member of the panel of question writers for the Intercollegiate Otolaryngology Examination

2005 - 2013

Member of the medical student admissions interview panel

University of Leeds

2003 - present

Member of the Otolaryngology Specialist Training Committee

Yorkshire

2002 - 2010

Secretary of the North of England Otolaryngology Society

2002 - 2006

Member of the Specialist Advisory Board in Otolaryngology

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

2000-2001

Secretary of the Mackenzie ENT Society

ENT UK

2002 - present

Manager of the North of England Otolaryngology Society Internet worldwide web site

2001 - 2007

ENT representative of ‘Vision 2000’, the committee that is establishing a new medical student curriculum for the University of Edinburgh

1997 - 1999

Oto-rhinolaryngological Research Society

1997 - present

Student representative on the Medical Faculty Staff Student Committee

1985 - 1990

Member of the Mackenzie ENT Society

2006 - present

ENT case and update: Yorkshire Health Care Practitioners

Trinity University Leeds

19th March 2019

Hearing levels in vestibular schwannoma patients: conservative treatment vs the gamma knife

British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology (BACO)

4th July 2018

Kelly, G. Vertigo with an ENT spin

Spire Leeds

17th April 2018

Kelly, G. ENT Cases in General Practice

Fountain Medical Centre

7th March 2018

Kelly, G. ENT Red Flags

Leeds Beckett University

9th December 2017

Kelly, G. Unilateral hearing loss

Leeds General Infirmary

6th December 2017

Kelly, G. ENT cases for a General Practice Discussion

Adwalton House Surgery, Drighlington

13th November 2017

Kelly, G.VTE assessment and re-wroking of the data

St James’s University Hosptial, Leeds Hospital

18th October, CD meeting 2017

Kelly, G. A review of Common ENT conditions

Spire Leeds Hospital

26th September 2017

Kelly, G. Event@Nuffield ENT for General Practice

Mercure Parkway Hotel, Leeds

4th July 2017

Kelly, G. Audit: Living care practice in MR scanning for ear symptoms, Thorpe Park Clinical Governance Meeting

Thorpe Park Hotel, Leeds

9th May 2017

Kelly, G. Yorkshire Nurse Practitioner Forum, ENT in General Practice

Weetwood Hall Hotel, Leeds

22nd April 2017

Kelly, G. ENT update on common ear problems seen in primary care, including hearing loss

BUPA, Trafalgar House, Leeds

20th April 2017

Kelly, G. Consent for Myringoplasty, How I do it

ENTUK Spring Meeting, York

31st March 2017

Kelly, G. The semicircular canals and beyond, Bradford Temporal Bone Course

Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford

30th March 2017

Kelly, G. ENT in General Practice Discussion and Cases, Lunch & Learn Nuffield Hospital Season

Robin Lane Medical Centre, Pudsey

23rd March 2017

Kelly, G. Permanent Conductive Hearing Impairment in children, Leeds Children’s Hearing Services ‘MDT’ Development Day

St George’s Centre, Middleton

18th January 2017

Kelly, G. ENT microbiology

Yorkshire Microbiology Registrar Teaching

14th September 2016

Kelly, G. Endoscopic middle ear surgery, Yorkshire Registrar Training Day

Leeds, St George’s Church Meeting Rooms

9th November 2016

Kelly, G. ENT ear, nose & throat emergencies, lecture to GPs

Spire Hospital Leeds

16th September 2015

Kelly, G. Ear, nose & throat considerations & management in the out of hours setting

Weetwood Hall

30th April 2015

Kelly, G. ENT anaesthesia for anaesthetic trainees

Leeds General Infirmary

21st November 2014

Kelly, G. Ossiculoplasty. Yorkshire Registrar Training Day

Leeds General Infirmary

21st November 2014

Kelly, G. Managing common nasal conditions, Back to Medical School

Moor Allerton Golf Club, Leeds

15th May 2014

Kelly, G. Otology and Audiology, GPwSI in ENT meeting

Thorpe Park Medical Centre, Leeds

30th April 2014

Kelly, G. ENT in general practice, my noise is blocked – an update on rhinosinusitis & snoring

Leeds Masonic Hall

6th March 2014

Kelly, G. ENT in general practice, a lump in my throat an update on voice, swallowing, globus and cancer

Leeds Masonic Hall

6th March 2014

Kelly, G. Cholesteatoma. Yorkshire Registrar Training Day

Leeds General Infirmary

26th November 2013

Kelly, G. Bone anchored hearing aids, what’s new? BANA meeting

Leeds General Infirmary

15th June 2013

Kelly, G. ENT in general practice. Kingswood Surgery

Harrogate

15th April 2013

Kelly, G. Modern ENT in general practice

Spire Hospital Leeds

20th March 2013

Kelly, G. Otitis media with effusion

Leeds General Infirmary

29th November 2012

Kelly, G. General practice ENT. Leeds West Clinical Commissioning Group Target Meeting

Leeds Mercure Hotel

20th September 2012

Kelly, G. Unilateral hearing loss, GPwSI in ENT meeting

The Corn Exchange, Leeds

24th April 2012

Kelly, G. ENT cases and discussion

General Practice, York

22nd February 2012

Kelly, G. ENT, things that we could do better, Back to Medical School

Moor Allerton Golf Club, Leeds

26th January 2012

Kelly, G. The smelly ear. Yorkshire Registrar Training Day

Leeds General Infirmary

December 2012

Kelly, G. ENT in general practice and ENT hospital cases

Boston Spa, Leeds

14th July 2011

Kelly, G. ENT in general practice, congested patients, congested clinic? Reducing the burden of allergic rhinitis

21st June 2011

Kelly, G. ENT Stridor. St James’s Hospital anaesthetic meeting

20th April 2011

Kelly, G. Radiotherapy and the temporal bone, Mackenzie Society

Durrant’s Hotel, London

6th December 2007

Bajaj, Y, Kanatas, AN, Carr, S, Sethi, N, Kelly, G. Is nasal packing really required after septoplasty.

British Rhinological Society

May 2008

Charlett, S., Bajaj, Y., Kelly, G. Informing patients of test results by letter: A measure to reduce outpatient waiting times

Royal Society of Medicine

February 2008

Goodyear, P, Kelly G. Consent – Is it Informed?

The North of England Otolaryngology Society Meeting, Leeds

March 2004

Kelly, G. Disorders of the inner ear

Yorkshire registrar teaching in Oto-rinholaryngology

January 2004

Kelly, G. Ears. ‘Target’ GP vocational training

September - October 2003

Kelly, G. ‘ENT case presentations’

Nuffield Hospital Leeds

September 2003

Kelly, G. Neuro-otology: when why and how to operate

Yorkshire postgraduate meeting in Oto-rinholaryngology

March 2003

Kelly, G. Neurotrophic factors and repair of the facial nerve

ENT Postgraduate Meeting, Manchester

March 2001

Kelly, G, Glasby, M. Can neurotrophic factors improve current results of facial nerve repair? An animal study

Scottish Otolaryngological Society Meeting. Dunblane

June 2000

Lee, P, Kelly, G. In search of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

Scottish Otolaryngological Society Meeting. Dunblane

June 2000

Kelly, G. Evolving strategies in the medical management of nasal polyposis

East and West of Scotland SpR study day, Perth

April 2000

Kelly, G, Lee, P. Myringoplasty: Does size matter? Short papers. Section of Otology

The Royal Society of Medicine

March 2000

Kelly, G. Should a trainee do my myringoplasty?

British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology, Cambridge

July 1999

Kelly, G, Lee, P. Nasendoscopically assisted nasogastric feeding tube positioning: a simple new technique

British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology, Cambridge

July 1999

Kelly, G. Electrophysiological assessment of the facial nerve

Otorhinolaryngological research society

October 1998

Kelly, G. A model for electrophysiological assessment of the facial nerve

Scottish Otolaryngological Society Meeting (Dunkeld)

Dunkeld, June 1998

Gilchrist, T, Glasby, MA, Healy, DM, Kelly, G, Lenihan, DV, McDowall, KL, Miller, IA, Myles, LM. The controlled release glass tube as a new entubulation method for peripheral nerve repair. Joint meeting of the British orthopaedic research society, bone and tooth society and biomaterials special interest group

Oxford

March 1998

Kelly, G. An audit of Edinburgh outpatient otolaryngology treatments – are they evidence based?

Grand Rounds-St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London

February 1998

Kelly, G, McDowall, KL, Lenihan, DV, Glasby, MA. In vitro repair of the facial nerve – in vivo

JS Fraser Presentation

October 1997

Kelly, G. Is evidence based medicine used in otolaryngology

Scottish Otolaryngological Society summer meeting

June 1997

Kelly, G. A retrospective study into evidence based medicine in Otolaryngology

Otorhinolaryngological research society, spring meeting

April 1997

Kelly, G. Evidence based medicine in ENT. Surgery Academic Afternoon Meeting

Edinburgh surgical forum

November 1996

Kelly, G. Is Otolaryngology Evidence Based? JS Fraser Presentation

June 1996

Ah-See, K, Kelly, G, Todd, G, MacKenzie, K. Day Case Microlaryngeal Surgery:- A Feasibility Study

Scottish Otolaryngological Society Meeting, Inverness

June 1995

Kelly, G, Ah-See, K, Todd, G, MacKenzie, K. Use of Peak Expiratory Flow Rate and Saturation as Predictors of fitness for the same day discharge following microlaryngeal surgery

Ninth British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology. Manchester

July 1995

Kelly, G, Gana, P, Nielsen, T, MacGregor, F. Tonsillectomy, a safe procedure for the surgeon? The risks of potential conjunctival blood contamination

Scottish Otolaryngological Society Meeting, Inverness

June 1995

Kelly, G, Gana, P, Nielsen, T, MacGregor, F. The incidence of possible conjunctival contamination in tonsillectomy

West of Scotland ENT Registrars Night

May 1995

Kelly, G, Porteous, C. ‘Do Blunt Needles Reduce The Incidence Of Glove Perforation’

The Scottish Society for Experimental Medicine, Aberdeen

March 1995

Surgery for Vertigo Kelly, G.

Damascus, the Syrian ENT Society

15th April 2006

Is there still a place for acoustic neuroma surgery in 2006, Kelly, G.

Damascus, the Syrian ENT Society

15th April 2006

A review of therapies in sudden sensorineural hearing loss, Kelly, G.

Damascus, the Syrian ENT Society

15th April 2006

Surgery for Facial Paralysis, Kelly, G.

Damascus, the Syrian ENT Society

16th April 2006

Round table on Myringoplasty debate in children Kelly, G., Clark, R., Abass, A., Kassameh, G.

Damascus, the Syrian ENT Society

15th April 2006

Research in Neurotrophic Growth Factors and Nerve Repair. Kelly, G.

University Health Network, Toronto.

June 2001

EBM in ENT: what have we done so far? Ah-see, K, Kelly, G.

Netherlands EBM Course, Beekbergen, Holland

June 2001

Can neurotrophic factors affect the outcome of facial nerve repair? Kelly, G, Glasby, M

5th European Skull Base Society Congress, Copenhagen

June 2001

Reanimation of total unilateral facial paralysis: a comparison of surgical techniques. Malik, T, Kelly, G, Ahmed, A, Saeed, S, Ramsden, R.

International Facial Nerve Symposium, San Francisco

July - August 2001

Reanimation of total unilateral facial paralysis: a comparison of surgical techniques. Kelly, G, Malik, T, Ahmed, A, Saeed, S, Ramsden, R.

5th European Skull Base Society Congress, Copenhagen

June 2001

Gana, P, Kelly, G, Nielsen, T, MacGregor, F. The risks of potential conjunctival blood contamination

Pan-African Federation of ORL societies & 6th scientific conference of the Kenya ENT society, Nairobi

June 1998

MacKenzie, K, Kelly, G, Todd, G, Ah-See, K. Use of Peak Expiratory Flow Rate (PEFR) and Saturation (SaO2) as Predictors of fitness for the same day discharge following microlaryngeal surgery

First World Voice Congress, Oporto, Portugal

April 1995

Kelly, G, Downie, I, Gardiner, DS, More, IAR, Lindop, GBM. The peripolar cell: a distinctive cell type in the mammalian glomerulus. Morphological evidence from a study

Journal of Anatomy – 168, 217-227

1990

Kelly, G, Porteous, C. Do blunt needles reduce incidence of glove perforations?

Scottish Medical Journal – 40, 4, 125-126.

1995

Kelly, G, Gana, P, Nielsen, T, MacGregor, F. The risk of conjunctival contamination in tonsillectomy.

Journal of the Royal College of Surgeon of Edinburgh – 45, 5, 288-290

2000

Ah-See, K, Kelly, G, Todd, G, MacKenzie, K. A prospective evaluation of the feasibility of day case microlaryngeal surgery

Journal of Laryngology and Otology – 112(4), 351-4

1998

Gilchrist, T, Glasby, MA, Healy, DM, Kelly, G, Lenihan, DV, McDowall, KL, Miller, IA, Myles, LM. In vitro nerve repair – in vivo. The reconstruction of peripheral nerves by entubulation with biodegradable glass tubes

Journal of Plastic Surgery – 51, 231-237

1998

Kelly, G, P, Lee, P. Nasendoscopically assisted placement of nasogastric tube

Journal of Laryngology and Otology – 113: 839-40

1999

Kelly, G, Lee, P. Nasendoscopically-assisted nasogastric feeding tube placement: A simple new technique

Journal of Laryngology and Otology – Supp 23: 46

1999

Kelly, G. Lee, P. Should a trainee do my myringoplasty?

Journal of Laryngology and Otology – Supp 23: 19

1999

Kelly, G. Electrophysiological assessment of the facial nerve repair: A model

Clinical Otolaryngology – 24 (4), 374-5

1999

Odutoye, T., Nisbet, R., Kelly, G., Sim, D. An audit of tympanomastoid surgery and prospective data collection

Journal of Laryngology and Otology – 114: 898 – 899

2000

Kelly, G. Lee, P. A new technique for the insertion of a silastic button for septal perforations.

Larygoscope – 111: 539-540

2001

Lee, P., Kelly, G., Mills, R.P. Myringoplasty: does the size of the perforation matter?

Clinical Otolaryngology – 27(5), 331-334

2002

Kaushik V., Kelly G., Richards S.D., Saeed S.R. Isolated unilateral hypoglossal nerve palsy after minor head trauma.

Clin Neurol Neurosurg – 105(1): 42-7

December 2002

Consent for tonsillectomy. Mistry D, Kelly G.

Clin Otolaryngol – 29(4):362-8

August 2004

A comparison of surgical techniques used in the dynamic reanimation of the paralysed face. TH Malik, TH, Kelly, G, Ahmed, A, Saeed, SR, Ramsden, RT.

Otology & Neurotology – 26(2): 284-91

March 2005

Maung KH, Menon K, Kelly G. How I do it? Excision of neck lumps under local anaesthesia.

Int J Clin Pract. – 59(7):854-5

July 2005

Bruce, I, Malik, T, Kelly, G, Saeed, S, Ramsden, R. Does meningitis stop CSF rhinorrhoea following lateral skull base surgery.

Skull Base – 17(4):235-8

July 2007

Conservative management of acoustic neuromas. Kelly G

ENT News – Vol 15, No6: p56-7

January/February 2007

Otitis media and a neck lump–current diagnostic challenges for Paragonimus-like trematode infections. Schuster H, Agada FO, Anderson AR, Jackson RS, Blair D, McGann H, Kelly G.

54(2): p103-6

February 2007

In search of a better clinic letter for general practitioners. Bajaj Y, Charlett S, Kelly G

Clin Otolaryngol – 32(3):221

June 2007

Bajaj, Y, Kanatas, AN, Carr, S, Sethi, N, Kelly, G. Is nasal packing really required after septoplasty.

Int J Clin Pract – 63(5):757-9

May 2009

Fraser, L, Kelly, G. An evidence based approach to the management of the adult with nasal obstruction.

Clinical Otolayngology – 34(2):151-155

April 2009

Informing patients of test results by letter: a measure to improve access to outpatient services. Charlett SD, Bajaj Y, Kelly G.

Clinical Otolaryngol – 34(2): 173-4

April 2009

Tapia’s syndrome after repair of a fractured mandible - Kashyap SA, Patterson AR, Loukota RA, Kelly G.

British Journal of Oral Maxillofacial – Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. – 48(1):53-4

January 2010

Severe laryngeal dysplasia in a 20-year-old nonsmoker treated with CO2 laser excision: a case report and review of the literature. - Fraser L, Kelly G, MacLennan K, Makura ZG.

Photomed Laser Surg. – 28 Suppl 2:S115-9

October 2010

Kelly G, ENT News

Vol 18. No 6. Radiology in ENT, ENT News Editorial

Jan/Feb 2010

A national registry for acoustic neuromas. - Van Hill, P, Kelly G, Fenwick J

British Journal of neurosurgery, in press

2010

12 minute consultation: an evidence-based management of referred otalgia - Visvanathan V, Kelly G. Clin Otolaryngol.

35(5):409-14

October 2010

The oozing tracheostomy – A novel application for Floseal. Prowse, S, Kelly, G.

Clinical Otolaryngol – in press

2010

Kelly, G. ENT UK Newsletter Vol 20, No 3.

Editorial

June 2010

Kelly, G. ENT UK Newsletter Vol 20, No 5.

Editorial

October 2010

Titled: TS F2-03 A proposed national registry of acoustics - P Van Hille, G Kelly & J Fenwick

British Journal of Neurosurgery – General Infirmary at Leeds – 24(4):374

August 2010

Mr Kelly runs the British Society of Otology Balance Course which is held at the start of the year, each year. The 2017 course was held on the 1st February 2017 and was a great success. The 2018, 2019 and 2020 courses have been fully booked with 48 participants and reviews have been excellent! The 2021 course was held as an on-line only course and again the reviews were excellent! The 2022 course might be a hybrid course with some delegates attending on-line and some in-person.