Faculty & Staff

Qualification/ Education

• MRCS PART A (September 2025)
• Master of Surgery (MS) Otorhinolaryngology (May 2020 – May 2023)                         Father Muller Medical College Hospital, MangaloreAffiliated with Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Karnataka, India
• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery – MBBS -(August 2014- March 2020)

           St. Johns National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore;

           Affiliated with Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Karnataka, India

Experience

• Senior Resident, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, St John’s Medical College 

(September 2023 till present)

• Independent outpatient and inpatient management of ENT cases
• Assisted and performed elective and emergency ENT surgeries
• Active involvement in Allergy Clinic: skin prick testing and allergen immunotherapy
• Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Junior Resident, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Father Muller Medical College Mangalore - May 2020 – May 2023
• Resident Medical Officer, Fathima Mission Hospital; Kozhuvanal, Kottayam, Kerala, 

(March 2020 till May 2020)

• Managed medical emergencies and elective minor surgical procedures
• Provided acute and inpatient care in a secondary care hospital

Fellowship & Membership

• Association of Otolaryngologists of India (AOI)
• Association of Otolaryngologists of Karnataka (AOI – K)

Other formal training/certification

• Attended Endoscopic Base of Skull Surgery (EBOSS 2.0) in Trivandrum Jan 30th to February 1st 
• Completed the Certificate Course in Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery on 26th to 27th September at IMMAST accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Completed the 11th Hands on Temporal bone dissection workshop at Bangalore Medical College, Karnataka, India, 14th and 15th June 2025
• Attended the Clinical Reasoning Workshop – Faculty Development Program – 11th December 2024
• Attended the CME – Mastering Airway Allergy management, Allergy Diagnostics and Allergen Immunotherapy, Bangalore 19th January 2025
• Attended the Cadaveric Hands-on Workshop on Head and Neck surgeries at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, January 2023
• Basic Life Support (BLS) completed 28 th June 2019 and January 15th 2021
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support ACLS 20th January 2021

Awards and Recognitions

• Pioneers Award for Excellence in Teaching for the year 2024-25 
• First place – Best Research Paper, Heinz Stammberger Resident and Young Otolaryngologist award at the 20th Annual Meeting of Middle East Academy of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Dubai (April 11-13, 2025).
• Second place, Dr. Sandra Nisha Award for Postgraduate Paper presentation, at Association of Otolaryngologists of India's 74th Annual National Conference (AOICON     2023), Jaipur.
• First place, medical Poster presentation at QRIOSITY - National level PG and UG conference, KIMS, Bangalore 12th – 15th April, 2018 
• First place, Poster presentation, Indian Association of Pediatrics - Neocon and EBNEO 2017, The Xth National Conference of Neonatology Chapter of Indian Academy of Peaditrics (IAP) & IVth International Conference of Society of Evidence Based Neonatology (EBNeo) at Hyderabad     International Convention Centre.
• ‘Biju Mercy Siju prize in reflective narratives in medical practice for Undergraduate and Postgraduates’, SJNAHS, 2017.
• First in Reflective Narrative writing programme of Division of Health and Humanities, SJRI, 2016.
• Certificate of Merit in PSM, Ophthalmology, University Examinations -December 2018.
• Certificate of Merit, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Pathology, Forensic Medicine - University Examinations -December 2017.
• Certificate of Merit in Physiology, Anatomy, Biochemistry for performance in University Examinations - June     2016.