ProfessorJohn Russell

Since commencing my Consultant career in Otolaryngology I have been an active trainer of  Nurses , Medical students, ENT trainees at SHO, Registrar and senior registrar levels. I am currently mentoring 2 young consultant colleagues on complex Paediatric Airway Surgery.

In my first 6 years as a Consultant I organised (1) An International Voice Symposium,13-14th September 1996: Mater Hospital (2) An International Airway Symposium 24th-25th April 1998: Mater Hospital.(3) An International Rhinology Symposium 8th May 1999: Mater Hospital.(4) A complete Rhinology section for the 6th Congress of the European Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology(ESPO),Oxford, UK, June 2002.

In 2014 I was Chairman of the Organising committee for the 12th International Congress of the Eyropean Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology(ESPO) 31st-3rd June, Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland 2014. I have produced 18 peer review publications and 5 book chapters since 2021. 

In 2016 I was invited to be part of the International Pediatric Otolyngology-Head and Neck Group (IPOG) and contributed to 18 peer review publications on complicated Paediatric Airway disease and in 2023  was invited on to the board of Directors.

I  have been an invited Speaker/Moderator  Internationally on  many aspects of Paediatric Airway disease.

(1) British Association of Paediatric Otolaryngology (BAPO) Meeting: Birmingham, UK 2021

(2)European Society of  Paediatric and Neonatal ventilation( ESPNI)  Montreux , Switzerland. October 2021

(3) Annual Spanish Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck meeting Las Palmas October 2022

(4)American Academy of Otorhinolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery (AOHNS) Philadelphia USA September 2022

(5)American Academy of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AOHNS)   Nashville USA  September 2023

(6)American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO)  Boston USA  May 2024.

(7) American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO) Montreal April  Canada 2025.