Mr. Sid Nagala

Mr Nagala is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

He qualified from St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London in 2003. During his undergraduate training, he was awarded a BSc (Hons) in Anatomy and Neurosciences. He underwent his initial surgical training in Newcastle hospitals, which included jobs in ENT, Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery. Following this, he spent a dedicated year teaching surgery to medical students in London leading to a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Education.

Sid then completed a translational PhD evaluating imaging biomarkers in thyroid tumours at the University of Cambridge. During his research, he was awarded grants from Cancer Research UK and the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists.

General ENT training was completed in the Yorkshire and Humber programme. He was awarded a prestigious National Interface Fellowship in head & neck surgical oncology which he undertook at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. Sid supplemented his head and neck training with an observership at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York. In his final year of training, he was the President of the National ENT trainee association (AOT).

Mr Nagala is the ENT research lead at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and is the NIHR Specialty lead for the Thames Valley.