Mr Simon Gane

Mr Simon Gane is a consultant ENT surgeon, appointed to the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital in 2017 and as the ENT surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2019. He is also part of the vasculitis multidisciplinary clinic at the Royal Free Hospital. He has a sub speciality interest in surgery of the nose, sinuses and anterior skull base, rhinology, nasal inflammatory disease, vasculitis, olfaction and Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT).

He graduated from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and completed his Higher Surgical training as an Academic Clinical Fellow in the North Thames Deanery. He completed an MPhil in the physics of olfaction at UCL under the supervision of Prof Valerie Lund. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Mr Gane is an honorary research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Centre for the Study of the Senses, School of Advanced Study, University of London and the Department of Psychology, City of London University. He also a member of the British and European Rhinology Societies, BSFPS - British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery, the Centre for Olfactory Research and Application (CORA) and the european Clinical Olfactory Working Group (COWOG).

Mr Gane is a trustee for the Rhinology and Laryngology Research Fund and Abscent, a charity for people with smell loss.

He co-founded the first independent provider of aural hygiene services in the UK - the Clear Ear Clinic, in 2006 and has won prizes for his business plans and ideas. He holds two UK patents for novel ideas in diagnostics.