Personal details: Mr Sherif Habashi studied medical sciences at St Catharine's College in Cambridge before completing his clinical studies at Guy's Hospital London, qualifying in 1984. His postgraduate training included appointments in Plastic Surgery at Mount Vernon Hospital, Neurosurgery at The Brook Hospital and General Surgery at The Royal Marsden as well as ENT in High Wycombe, at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London, in Manchester and in Preston. Mr Habashi undertook a Clinical Fellowship in Auckland, New Zealand and in 1994was appointed Consultant ENT/Head and Neck Surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, now part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He has been Head of Department, Consultant Appraiser and Clinical Governance Lead. He has also been a BMA Representative on the Local Negotiating Committee of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust as well as an ENT representative on the Medical Advisory Committee for The King’s Oak and Cavell Hospitals. For many years, Mr Habashi was an invited faculty member on The Merseyside Ear Surgery Course (an annual international live surgery course). He is a council member of the Section of Otology at The Royal Society of Medicine. Mr Habashi has authored and coauthored many publications covering all aspects of ENT. Mr Habashi is a devoted family man with a wonderful wife, four grown up children, one a doctor, one an accountant and two medical students. He has recently become a doting grandfather!