Mr Shashi Prasad Rama (Consultant)

About Mr Shashi Prasad Rama

• Role: Consultant
  
• Location of Medical Training: • Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education, Pondicherry, India • All India Institute for Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India • Health Education Northwest, Liverpool
  
• Date Joined University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire: 2016
  
• Other Professional Details:
  Qualifications:
  • MBBS
  • PhD (Bristol)
  • FRCS (ORL-HNS)
  • FRCS (Edinburgh)
  • FRCS (Glasgow)
  • MS
  • Diplomate National Board
  
  Fellowships:
  • Sialendoscopy fellowship: European Sialendoscopy Training Centre, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • International fellow: Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia
  • Rowan Nick Travel fellowship, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
  • NCI (USA)/NTRAC (UK)/Cancer Research UK translational research fellowship – University of Bristol, UK and Yale University, USA
  
  Awards:
  • Xomed-Treace Award for Best Piece of Substantial Work, Otolaryngology Research Society, UK
  • Outstanding Service and Care Awards 2020: Excellence through Ideas, Improvement and Innovation Award winner
  
  Publications:
  • Prasad S, Fong E, Ooi EH. Systematic review of patient-reported outcomes after revision endoscopic sinus surgery. Am J Rhinol Allergy. 2017 Jul 1;31(4):248-255.
  • Pezier TF, Prasad S, Marchal F. Towards an international database of benign salivary disease: RE: Management of obstructive salivary disorders by sialendoscopy: a systematic review. Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2016 Mar 16. pii: S0266-4356.
  • Prasad S, Pezier T, Faure, F and Marchal FM. Cody V, Sialendoscopy: what is it and what is its awareness? Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2015 Dec 31
  • Prasad S, Cody V, Saucier-Sawyer JK, Fadel TR, Edelson RL, Birchall MA, Hanlon DJ. Optimization of stability, encapsulation, release, and cross- priming of tumor antigen-containing PLGA nanoparticles. Pharm Res. 2012 Sep; 29(9):2565-2577.
  • S Prasad, V Cody, J Saucier-Sawyer, W M Saltzman, C T Sasaki, R L Edelson, M A Birchall and D J Hanlon. Polymer nanoparticles containing tumor lysates as antigen delivery vehicles for dendritic cell–based antitumor immunotherapy. Journal: Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine 2011; 7: 1–10. This was identified as work with high clinical relevance and was the cover page article in the February 2011 issue of the journal.
  • K R S Prasad, A S Jones, M Birchall, J Krajacevic, T R Helliwell.Immunocytochemical analysis of malignant melanoma of the nasal cavity and sinuses using tissue microarray. Histopath 2007; 50 (4): 516–519.
  
• Special Interests:
  Areas of specialist clinical interest:
  • Voice, swallowing and airway disorders
  • Salivary gland diseases
  • Minimally invasive laryngeal surgery
  • Minimally invasive salivary gland surgery including sialendoscopy
  • Office-based awake upper airway surgery
  • Coblation surgery for obstructive sleep apnoea
  • Multi-disciplinary management of chronic cough
  • Healthcare technology innovation
  • Management of drooling
  
  Research Interests:
  • Digital pathology/Artificial intelligence/novel biomarkers in prognosticating head and neck mucosal disease
  • Immunotherapy of head and neck squamous cell cancer
  

Contact Information

2nd Floor, East Wing, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry CV2 2DX

Office: +44(0)2476 965684 (internal 25684)