Aileen Lambert MB BCh, BAO, MA, PG Cert, FRCS (ORL-HNS)

Mrs Lambert qualified with Honours from Trinity College Medical School, in her home town of Dublin, in 2006. She undertook her postgraduate training in London, as part of the North Thames ENT Specialist training programme. She has been personally trained by many leaders in the field of ENT Surgery at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital/UCLH, Charing Cross Hospital, and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. She was awarded the opportunity to undertake the Darzi Leadership Fellowship in 2014.

Specialist ENT Surgical Experience and Research

Aileen Lambert’s subspecialist training in Ear surgery was undertaken as a senior trainee in the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, UCLH, as well as the National Hospital for Neurosurgery, Queens Square with Professor Shakeel Saeed and Sherif Khalil. She also had adult and paediatric otology experience with Mr Jonny Harcourt in Charing Cross and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. In Imperial College Healthcare Trust she also had the opportunity to engage in Meniere’s disease research in the Division of Brain Sciences and collaborate on a book chapter with Prof. Adolfo Bronstein. Her surgical practice includes surgery for middle ear disease including tympanic membrane perforation and retraction, cholesteatoma, glue ear/otitis media. She also has a specialist interest in Surfer’s ear, a common condition in the surfing/sea-swimming/sailing community, and uses both the chisel, and when required, the drill method for canaloplasty for exostoses. She has experience of treating a wide range of ear-related causes of dizziness and vertigo, and undertakes intratympanic injections under both local and general anaesthetic.  She was invited to write the Ear Trauma book chapter in Scott Brown’s Otolaryngology text, as well as recently speaking at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on Otological Emergencies.

Mrs Lambert also has expertise in Sinonasal disease, including both chronic and allergic rhinosinusitis. She has developed excellent skills in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery and Functional Septorhinoplasty and Septoplasty, through her training with Hesham Saleh in Imperial College Healthcare Trust and Royal Brompton Hospital. She has kept up to date with the recent Covid-related causes and treatments for Anosmia and Parosmia by attending workshops both here in the UK and in the USA. She has been part of invited faculty for training courses in endoscopic sinus surgery.

NHS Role

Aileen Lambert has a substantive full-time Consultant post in the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust where she treats both adult and paediatric patients with a range of ear, nose and throat conditions. She is the lead for Paediatric ENT in the trust, as well as the lead for Governance within the ENT Department currently.

She represents Cornwall on the regional Paediatric ENT Operation Delivery Network, and represents the South West on the Cleft ENT Specialist Network.

Education Roles

Aileen is the lead for Undergraduate ENT in the Cornwall Campus of the University of Exeter Medical School and is involved in creating a high quality training programme for the medical students. She coordinates their placements, arranges electives and delivers lectures and teaching to the students.  She is passionate about promoting Surgery as a career and regularly gives talks to schools, university societies as well as junior doctors. Aileen teaches and does mock exams on FRCS exam revision courses. She is an examiner for the University and is an interviewer for postgraduate Core Surgery and ENT Specialty training selection.

Interests

When not at work Aileen is at home with her two young children and her husband trying to tame the garden and starting her Apiary for keeping bees! She sings Alto with Three Spires Singers who perform in Truro Cathedral. When the Cornish sunshine makes an appearance she heads to the coast for a dip in the sea or goes kayaking with the family.