Consultants MESIARC PANEL OF PROFESSIONALS WORKING TOWARDS A COMMON GOAL

Dr. M P Manoj, MS

Managing Director and Chief Consultant ENT Surgeon

Head of the Cochlear Implant Unit and Head & Neck Surgery

Graduate of Medical College, Chengalapattu, Madras University of 1986 Batch and took his Post Graduation in 1996 from Calicut Medical College. He worked as a Lecturer in ENT at Trichur Medical College from 1990 to 1994 and Assistant Professor at Medical College from 1994 to 1998. He is interested in Otoneurology, Otology, Head, and Neck Surgery. After joining the Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences in 2000, he was instrumental in starting the State’s first ever Cochlear Implant programme. He was trained in Cochlear Implantation in Bionic Ear Research Institute. He is renowned for performing the highest number of paediatric implantation.

Dr. Manoj is one of the third persons in India to be invited for the VISTA (Visiting Implant Specialist to Australia) seminar held in Melbourne and Sydney. He has presented papers at various conferences in India and abroad, notably at the SAARC Conference at Sri Lanka and International Cochlear Implant Conference at Spier, Cape Town, South Africa and Asia Pacific conference on Cochlear Implant and related Sciences at Hong Kong. He is an invited faculty for temporal bone dissection courses at various Institutes in the country, notably Madras ENT Institute and Research Foundation. Sree Ramchandran Medical College, Porur and Amritha Institute of Medical College at Kochi. He has performed Cochlear Implant Surgery on the youngest child to be implanted in India at 10 months. He is keenly interested in the treatment of vestibular disorders and surgical management of vertigo. He is a trained Microvascular Surgeon and has performed the first free flap microvascular anastomosis at Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences.

Dr. Manoj is the National Secretary of the Cochlear Implant Group of India and Organizing Chairman of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Cochlear Implant Group of India held at Calicut. His is also a keen Head and Neck Surgeon, having had special training at the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore. He has a large series of Total and Partial Laryngectomies who have been effectively rehabilitated through Tracheo oesphageal Puncture. He was responsible for starting the State’s first Laryngectomy Club.

Dr. Sapna Devrajan DPMR, DNB ( PM & R)

Executive Director

Specialist in Rehabilitation Medicine

Graduated from Medical College Calicut in 1991. She has specialized in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabitilation from the same college. She worked in National Hospital, Calicut and later as Head of Department, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences, Calicut (2001-2006). Her area of interest includes Cerebral Palsy and Pain Management.

Dr P K Sandeep,   MS ENT Head & Neck Surgery (AIIMS), DNB, MNAMS

ENT Head & Neck Surgeon | Specialist in Facial Plastic Surgery

Graduated from Govt. Medical College, Calicut in the year 2007.  He has worked as NRHM medical officer at Govt. General Hospital Mattanur, Kannur in 2008
Post graduated in ENT Head & Neck Surgery from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi in the year, 2012.
He has been working as an ENT surgeon at MESIARC, Calicut since March 2013. He is also a Diplomate from National board (DNB) in Otorhinolaryngology and a member, National
Academy of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
His areas of special interests include Head and neck, Endoscopic skull base sinus surgeries and Facial plastics.

Dr. M. ABDUSSALAM
ENT Surgeon

Graduated from VMK Medical College, Salem, TamilNadu in the year 2007.
Completed his Post Graduation (DLO) from Naryana Medical College, Andhra Pradesh in the year 2013.
Previously worked with Rajiv Gandhi Isntitute of Medical Science, Kadappa in Andhra Pradesh as Senior Resident at ENT Department.
Working with Mesiarc since October 2014 as ENT Surgeon.

Dr K Shinoj, MS (ENT)

ENT Surgeon

Completed his MBBS and MS(ENT) from Govt Medical college, Kozhikode.
Thereafter he worked in the periphery for a year before joining team MESIARC in March 2015.
He has presented various papers in state and national conferences and is an avid quizzer.
His field of interest is Otology and Neurotology.

Dr P Sangeetha DLO,

ENT Surgeon, Head & Neck Ultrasonography

Professional Voice care

Dr P Sangeetha has finished her diploma in otolaryngology from Trivandrum Medical College. She was working in EMS memorial medical college Perintalmanna as a junior consultant following which she joined MESIARC . She has a keen interest in singing voice disorders and head and neck ultrasound. She manages the ultrasound unit of MESIARC and with otolaryngological knowledge combined with experience adds a new dimension to our salivary gland unit. Ours is the only salivary gland unit in the country with this kind of support. She is also a professional trained singer with music albums to her credit. She has presented papers in head and neck ultrasound at state level meetings.

Mr. Sasidharan. P  BASLP, MASLP, FAGE

Consultant Audiologist and Clinical Specialist in Cochlear Implants

Sasidharan P obtained his graduation and post graduation in Audiology & Speech Pathology from All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore, Karnataka,
India in 1995. He worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Audiology at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and joined the present team in 1998.
He underwent advanced training in Cochlear Implantation from the Bionic Ear Research & Training Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Medel Medical Electronics
& Advanced Bionics. He has got wide experience in programming cochlear implants & optimizing hearing aid fitting.  
He is a member of the Indian Speech & Hearing Association, Rehabilitation Council of India, Cochlear Implant Group of India (CIGI) and  
“Hearring” (comprehensive hearing implant centres). He served as a member of the Advanced Bionics European Audiological Advisory Board from
September 2011 to May 2014. He is the Managing Partner of Hear & Speak habilitation centre for the hearing impaired, Calicut, Kerala.

He was actively involved in creating public awareness about the management of hearing impairment by conducting several public awareness camps
across Kerala, along with his team. He played a prominent role in educating the professionals & public about the audiological services.  
His passion is Paediatric Audiology & Cochlear Implantation. He was the Chief Audiologist of Kerala’s first Cochlear Implant programme,
which began in the year 2002 at Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences, Calicut.  

He is a co-author of some important publications related to cochlear implants.

Mrs. Shabeena Backer MASLP

Consultant Audiologist & Clinical Specialist in Cochlear Implants

Mrs. Shabeena completed her post graduation in Audiology and Speech pathology  from Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for Hearing Handicapped, Mumbai in 1998. She underwent advanced training in Cochlear Implantation from the Bionic Ear Research and Training institute, Melbourne, Australia in 2004.Life member of cochlear implant group of Inida . She also underwent advanced training in paediatric hearing aid fitting in switzerland in 2006. She has got several scientific papers to her credit. She is a life member of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association, Cochlear implant Group and Kerala Speech and Hearing Association.