Course
Tuesday 12th May 2026
SOP ENT PM
Speaker: Mr Okechukwu Okonkwo
1. Develop an understanding of smell and taste disorders. Assessment and management strategies for patients presenting with a blocked nose.
2. Review national guidance on tinnitus, including appropriate referral pathways and criteria for audiology services.
3. Develop understanding of ENT vasculitis and when to suspect this in primary care, and chronic rhinosinusitis, including the principles around presentation, diagnosis, and management.
4. Discussion and review of the two-week wait referral pathway and it's inclusion criteria
5. Develop an approach to assessing and managing patients with chronic throat symptoms
About the speaker
Mr Okechukwu Okonkwo
Consultant Otolaryngologist GHNHSFT
Mr Okonkwo has completed 2 internationally recognised fellowships. The first in London in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery with a focus on rhinoplasty and skin cancers. The second in complex sinus disease and anterior skull-base surgery.
He has set up the South West of England's first smell and taste disorders clinic in conjunction with the Fifth Sense charity.
His areas of expertise include:
Complex sinus surgery
Rhinoplasty and Facial plastics
Allergy and Hayfever
Smell and taste disorders
Skin cancer of the head and neck
Local anaesthetic ENT surgery
General ENT
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