Mr Ryan Chin Taw Cheong BSc(Hons), MBBS, AICSM, MRCS(ENT), MSc, FRCS(ORL-HNS)
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
North Central London
Mr. Cheong is a substantive Consultant ENT and Specialist Sleep Surgeon at the world leading Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is currently the only Consultant ENT Surgeon in the UK with a full-time NHS practice exclusively in snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea.
He is a multi-award-winning surgeon from prestigious institutions such as the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the British Rhinological Society. He completed his extensive higher surgical training in the full breadth of ENT at world class institutions such as the Royal Marsden Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and the Royal London Hospital.
Mr. Cheong successfully performed the first Genio Nyxoah hypoglossal nerve implants and the first female Inspire hypoglossal nerve implants for sleep apnoea in the UK, being the first and only surgeon in the UK to accomplish this he has been featured on Sky News, BBC, The Guardian, The Times and other media outlets.
He is the Founder and Course Director of the first International Sleep Surgery Course in the UK accredited by ENT-UK.
He is also the first surgeon in the United Kingdom to have completed the Royal Society of Medicine Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship at the Stanford University Hospital Sleep Medicine Division and the Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust Travelling Fellowship at the Asia Sleep Surgery Centre in Singapore.
He has delivered more than 30 international and national academic presentations and published in high impact peer-reviewed journals such as the Lancet and JAMA. He is a regularly invited Key Note international speaker at scientific meetings. He has held multiple leadership positions in national ENT societies including the British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery. Mr. Cheong is passionate and committed to ensuring that every patient under his care receives world class personalized treatment options.