Professor Mahmood Bhutta is a consultant ENT surgeon with over 20 years of experience, based at The Montefiore Hospital, Hove and BMI Goring Hall Hospital, Worthing. He is an expert in treating conditions all conditions of the ear and hearing, including ear discharge, ear pain, glue ear, holes in the eardrum, cholesteatoma, dizziness, hearing loss and earwax buildup. During training he undertook a PhD at the University of Oxford into the cause of chronic middle ear disease as the Phizackerley Scholar, was awarded the Margaret Witt Sholarship for Clinical Excellence by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the TWJ Fellowship as the leading trainee in the UK in ear disease. Professor Bhutta is a consultant to the World Health Organisation on the prevention of deafness and hearing loss. Through his global ear disease work he has trained health professionals in Cambodia, Zambia, Nepal, Fiji, Uganda, and South Africa. His research also includes environmental and labour rights harms in the manufacture and use of medical products. Professor Bhutta is the inaugral Chair in ENT Surgery at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, a position awarded to him in recognition of his contributions to research in his field. He has written for numerous peer-reviewed journals and is a regular invited speaker at national and international conferences. He is on the board of the British Society of Otology.