Dr. Ravi A
ENT
Experience:
Location: Calicut
Introduction
Dr. Ravi A did his entire medical training at the Medical College, Calicut, Kerala. After completing his MS in ENT surgery in 1993, he joined the National Hospital, Calicut as an ENT specialist under Prof. K.C.Vijayaraghavan. He left this job in 1998 to form an independent Institute of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery 1998 in partnership with two other ENT specialists.
This became a benchmark institute in Kerala for treating ENT diseases. This team joined the newly formed Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences in 2001. Initially appointed as a senior consultant, he became the Head of the Department of the Institute of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery at MIMS in 2005. The Institute of ENT at MIMS is the only centre in Malabar in the private sector that has a Diplomate of National Board training program in ENT.
He is keenly interested in cochlear Implantation, micro-ear surgery, endoscopic sinus surgery and phonosurgery. He was involved in starting the first ever cochlear implantation programme in Kerala in 2002 at MIMS. Dr. Ravi performed the first surgery of Sruthitharangam (Govt-funded Cochlear Implant program in Kerala.) In addition to doing a large number of cases through this program at MIMS, he is also the mentor surgeon of the Sruthitharangam program at Calicut Medical College.
ENT
- MBBS
- MS (ENT)
- DLO
- Senior Consultant & HOD - ENT Surgery
- 1) Cochlear Implantation and BAHA 2) Skull Base Surgery ( Trans sphenoidal pituitary surgery ) 3) Endoscopic repair of CSF leaks 4) Tympanoplasty and Stapes surgery 5) FESS 6) Endoscopic Adenoidectomy 7) All routine ENT surgeries
