About Us

We are doctors and surgeons who are interested in all modalities of treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring. In particular we focus on the role of surgery for sleep disordered breathing, but we are keen to share our experiences and promote the debate into how surgery fits into the treatment of patients. We therefore would accept membership applications from all surgeons, dentists, sleep physicians, respiratory physicians, in fact any medical professional interested in this growing field.

• Mr Vik Veer
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• Mr Vik Veer went to University College London Medical School and came first in Head & Neck Anatomy and Neuroanatomy exams. He went on to secure a place on the Barts & Royal London Surgical Training Rotation where he gained valuable experience in Brain Surgery, Heart & Lung surgery, Colorectal surgery, Breast Surgery, Orthopaedics, Urology, Vascular Surgery and of course ENT.
  
  The majority of his advanced ENT training took place in the Newcastle region, along with placements at the Evelina Paediatric Hospital at St Thomas’ Westminster London, and time with world-renowned surgeons in France, Italy and Australia. During his training, he won the prestigious National Ear Surgery competition (Royal Society of Medicine Temporal Bone Competition)
  
  He secured his permanent NHS consultant post at the Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital, and Queens Hospital, BHR trust. Mr Vik Veer is the lead surgeon for Sleep Medicine at the Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital, Kings Cross, London, He is developing new techniques and classifications for Snoring and Sleep Apnoea, and regularly speaks at international conferences.
• Co-Founder of BASS
• Location: London
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• Mr Konstantinos Chaidas
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• Mr Konstantinos Chaidas is a Consultant ENT surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford since 2015. He has a special interest in obstructive sleep disordered breathing and has published widely, mainly in this field. He was awarded a PhD in sleep apnoea in 2010.
  
  He undertook fellowship training in robotic ENT surgery for sleep apnoea and thyroid/parathyroid disease at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College in London.
  
  He is member of the ENT UK and the International Surgical Sleep Society.
• Co-Founder of BASS
• Location: Oxford
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• Mr Tahir Mirza
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• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
• Co-founder of BASS
• Location: Luton and Dunstable
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• Mr Amro Hassan
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• Mr Hassaan is a Consultant ENT surgeon with a specialist interest in sleep surgery. He provides tertiary care for patients with sleep disturbed breathing and obstructive sleep apnoea. He sees patients referred from all over the country at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, part of University College London Hospitals. He provides the service with his colleague Mr Vik Veer and a multidisciplinary team composed of sleep physician, anaesthetist, clinical psychologist and sleep technicians. His interest in the field resulted in a Masters Degree at Imperial College London and he continues to engage in research, publications and lecturing within this area.
• UK Member
• Location: Essex and London
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• Professor Brian Rotenburg
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• Dr. Brian Rotenberg MD MPH FRCSC, is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University (London, Canada) and Residency Program Director for the department.
  
  He obtained his MD degree at University of Toronto, as well as Royal College certification in Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery.  He is dual fellowship trained in sinonasal surgery and pediatric surgery, both from University of Melbourne (Australia), and joined the faculty at Western University in 2007. He is a founding member of the International Surgical Sleep Society and is now sits on the society’s Executive Board. Dr. Rotenberg is the outgoing Scientific Chair of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology. He is an invited speaker nationally and internationally on topics relating to sleep apnea and rhinology and has more than 100 peer reviewed publications and book chapters as well as funded research grants to study both sleep surgery and sinonasal research.
  
  Dr. Rotenberg is the Medical Director of Advanced Surgical Operatory Ltd., a division of Advanced Medical Group. In this role he has helped develop, and now has oversight of, the first stand-alone Ambulatory Surgical Center in Southwest Ontario. Dr. Rotenberg is the Chief Medical Officer for Citruvio Communications Inc, developing wireless apps for pager replacements and patient communication tools to facilitate information exchange in the modern healthcare environment. Dr. Rotenberg is the Vice-Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee for St. Joseph’s Health Care, and Assistant Director of Quality of Care.
  
  Wherever he is, and whatever he is doing, Dr. Rotenberg always puts his family first, including his wife Beverley and their three boys Jacob, Kieran, and Nathan.
• Honorary International Member
• Location: Canada, Toronto
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• Professor Kenny Pang
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• Dr Kenny Pang graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He attained his Fellowship from both the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and Ireland, and proceeded to attain his Masters of Medicine (Otorhinolarynogology).
  
  Dr Pang completed a sleep surgery and sleep medicine fellowship in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Georgia Sleep Centre, Medical College of Georgia (MCG) in the USA. He directed and ran the sleep medicine and sleep surgical clinics and research in Georgia, under the mentorship of Professor David J Terris; and under Professor Tucker Woodson in Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
  
  He is well versed in treating all forms of sleep disorders, including snoring, obstructive sleep apnoea, insomnia, sleepwalking, night terrors and bedwetting. He invented 2 very successful surgeries namely, the Expansion Sphincter Pharyngoplasty and the Anterior Palatoplasty.
  
  INVENTOR
  Dr Pang invented a new technique known as the Expansion Sphincter Pharyngoplasty (2006) for the treatment of snoring and sleep apnoea. He conducted a randomised controlled trial (with Professor BT Woodson) in Singapore and US and found this surgery to be very effective.
  The Anterior Palatoplasty (2004) is another surgery invented by Dr Pang for patients with snoring and sleep apnoea. The results have been very impressive and successful.
  Dr Pang also introduced a new Pang-Rotenberg sign (2015) that helps prognosticates the likelihood of success of nose and palate surgery for snoring treatments.
  
  COURSE DIRECTOR
  Dr Pang was the course director of a few major international courses in Singapore in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2017, which were attended by more than 1000 ENT specialists from all over the world. He was also actively involved in organising the American Sleep, Breathing and Surgery Courses (ISSS), and the Sleep Apnoea Symposium in the USA every year (American Academy ENT).
  
  PRESIDENT, ASEAN Sleep Surgical Society
  Dr Pang is the founder and president of the ASEAN Sleep Surgical Society, which is an interest group comprised of ENT/Dental/Respiratory and Sleep Specialists from the region and USA. (www.ASEANSleepSurgicalSociety.com)
  
  FOUNDING MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL SLEEP SOCIETY
  Dr Pang was appointed (since 2008 onwards) the chief editor of this prestigious international sleep surgical society where only the key surgeons and world sleep authorities are appointed on this committee and society.
  
  
• Honorary International Member
• Location: Singapore
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• Ms Yulli Tamayo-Myerson
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• Yulli is the Founder and Director of My Dental Hygienist Clinic and Myofunctional Therapy UK Yulli has over 22 years dental experience. She started as a trainee Dental Nurse in 1997 and subsequently qualified as a Dental Hygienist and Therapist (RDHT) from King’s College London Dental Institute. Yulli continued her professional development by training in:
  Cognitive Behavioural Techniques (CBT)
  Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
  Advance Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy
  Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMT) 
  Buteyko Breathing re-education
  Comprehensive Frenulum inspection
  
  Yulli is currently establishing the British Society of Myofunctional Therapy. The aim of the society is to raise public and professional awareness of Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (MOD’s), highlighting the early signs of Sleep Disorder Breathing (SDB) and its correlation with poor orofacial development and mouth breathing.
  Yulli has the privilege of being in the scientific committee at the Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences and presented clinical material at the first Myofunctional Therapy symposium at the Royal Society Medicine.
  Yulli is member of the International Affiliation of Tongue-tie Professionals (IATTP), The British Sleep Society (BSS), The Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences (AAMS), The British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy (BSDHT), The British Society of Periodontology (BSP) and The Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry (SAAD).
  
  Publications:
  -Neuro-linguistic Programming, raising awareness of NLP and its uses within dentistry. Dental Therapy update, November 2008
  -A Humanitarian call, Dental Health, volume 49. No.3 May 2010.
  
• UK Member - Allied Specialitist
• Location: South London
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