Miss Ekpemi Irune is Consultant ENT, Head & Neck and Thyroid Surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Her practice includes complex benign and malignant Head and Neck pathology including airway, voice and rhinoplasty surgery.

She undertakes LASER surgery to the airways and upper digestive tract, Salivary gland surgery, Thyroid surgery as well as major Head and Neck cancer operations with or without reconstruction.  In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, she developed and leads a multi-specialist voice, swallow and upper airway clinic for sufferers of COVID-19 in the NHS. She brings this experience and expertise to her private service.  Her private practice also encompasses a Facial - Plastic service which includes rhinoplasty and skin lesions.

She graduated from the University of Dundee Medical School in Scotland and went on to complete Higher Specialist Surgical Training in Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery in major teaching hospitals in England. She also completed an MSc in Surgical Science at Imperial College, London. During her training, she undertook clinical research at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, studying functional outcomes following treatment in Head and Neck cancer.

In 2013, she completed the European Academy Fellowship in Facial - Plastic Surgery at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam. In addition to this International Fellowship, she undertook the National Training Interface Group Fellowship in Aesthetic and Reconstructive surgery, working with surgeons in the fields of Plastic surgery, Rhinoplasty surgery, and Craniofacial surgery in London.

Furthermore, she was appointed as the Royal College of Surgeons of England Post-CCT Fellow in Advanced Head and N eck Surgical Oncology at Imperial Hospitals NHS Trust and was based at Charing Cross hospital. She has published in peer reviewed journals in the fields of Ear, Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Oncology and continues to pursue research interests in the latter.

Miss Irune is actively involved in Higher Specialist Surgical Training of doctors and participates in regional and national teaching courses. She is a member of the British Association of Head & Neck Oncologists, the European Academy of Facial - Plastic Surgeons and the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons.

• Benign and Malignant Head & Neck disease
• Thyroid and Parathyroid surgery
• Voice and Swallowing disorders
• Rhinoplasty and Sinus surgery
• Salivary gland surgery

• Consultant ENT, Head & Neck, Thyroid Surgeon and Facial-Plastic Surgeon
  Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust

Hobbies include travelling and fencing.