About the Surgeon

Mr David Luff is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Liverpool Medical School.

He was appointed as Consultant in May 2005 following Higher Surgical Training in Manchester and other units in the North West. Besides a general experience in the speciality, his areas of interest include Otology, Rhinology and Paediatric ENT Surgery.

Mr Luff is a member of the following:

• Royal College of Surgeons of England
• British Association of Otorhinolaryngologists, Head and Neck Surgeons
  
• British Medical Association
  
• Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association
  
• The Young Consultant Otolaryngologists Head and Neck Surgeons
  
• BAHA Professionals Group

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ysgol Aberconwy,Conwy ( 1980 - 85)
• King's School, Chester ( 1985-87)
• University of Nottingham Medical School (1988 - 93)

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Hons), Nottingham (1991)
• Bachelor Of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Nottingham (1993)
• FRCS in General Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1997)
• FRCS in Otolaryngology, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1999)
• Intercollegiate Examination in Otolaryngology (2004)

Specialist Registrar (1999 - 2005)

• Royal Preston Hospital
• Hope Hospital, Salford & Manchester Children's Hospital
• Royal Bolton Hospital
• Fairfield General Hospital, Bury
• Manchester Royal Infirmary
• Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester

Fellowship

Overseas Fellowship

Mr D A Luff undertook an Otology Fellowship at the Jean Causse Ear Clinic, Beziers, France from March to May 2005.

This placement has allowed him to gain exposure to all aspects of Otology including stapedotomy, ossiculoplasty, canal wall up and canal wall down mastoidectomy, obliteration techniques, canaloplasty and implantable hearing aids.