DNB - Otorhinolaryngology, MNAMS - General Surgery, MS - ENT, MBBS

ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist

31 Years Experience

Medanta The Medicity

Dr. K.K Handa is the Chairman of ENT and Head Neck Surgery at Medanta. He has more than 27 years of experience in the specialty. He has also worked as Associate Professor, Department of ENT, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and was a faculty member there for 13 years. He is the former President of Association of Phono-surgeons of India and was the associations Founder Secretary. He is among the foremost voice and laser surgeons in the country. His expertise includes laryngology, voice surgery, laser surgery, cochlear implants, endoscopic sinus surgery and head and neck surgery.

Education

DNB - Otorhinolaryngology - DNB board, New Delhi, 1994

MNAMS - General Surgery - DNB board, New Delhi, 1994

MS - ENT - POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, CHANDIGARH, 1993

MBBS - Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, 1989

Experience

2009 - Present Director – ENT And Head Neck Surgery at Medanta – The Medicity

2004 - 2004 Commonwealth Fellowship In Lasers And Laryngology at Glasgow Royal Infirmiry Glasgow

2003 - 2009 Associate Professor at Unit Head And Senior Consultant Deptt Of ENT and Head Neck Surgery In All India Institute of Medical Sciences

1996 - 2003 Worked As Assistant Professor ENT at All India Instittue of Medical Sciences

1993 - 1996 Worked As Senior Resident at Deptt. Of ENT , PGIMER

1990 - 1999 Worked As Junior Resident (MS ENT) at Deptt. Of ENT , PGIMER

Memberships & Certifications

Organising Chairman, World Phonocon 2017

Former president Association of Phonosurgeons of India

Past Vice President Association of Phonosurgeons of India

Founder Secretary Association of Phonosurgeons of India

Member Governing Body of Association of Otorhinolaryngologists of India 2002

Member Governing Body of Association of Otorhinolaryngologists of India 2009

Treasurer and past secretary Neurootological and Equilibrium Society of India

Medical Advisor Laryngectomy Club of India

Member Indian Society of Otology

Member Indian Society of Rhinology

Reviewer Indian Journal of Pediatrics,

Member Foundation of Head and Neck Oncology

Indian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology

Awards & Accomplishments

Best Otorhinolaryngologist, Times Research Foundation, 2012

Marquis Worlds Whos Who, Work in field of ENT, 2009

Kirti Gupta Oration, Work in Phonosurgery, 2009

Delivered NK Agarwal oration, Phonosurgery Past Present and Future, Work in Phonosurgery, 2008

First prize in Annual Conference of Association of Phonosurgeons of India, Best video presentation, 2007

Dr R.D Kumar Oration, Work in Laryngology, 2006

Presidents Appreciation Award, IMA South Delhi, 2005

British Academic Conference Fellowship, BACO Conference, Cambridge, U.K, 1996

AOI Travel Fellowship, Outstanding ENT Surgeon, 1996

Silver Medal, First Order in the MS (ENT) examination, 1993

• Bharath Swasthya Samman Award by Zee News, 2015

Publications

Clin Otolaryngol : How We do it: A technique for the orientation of endoscopically resected laryngeal specimens; Clinical Otolaryngology A technique for the orientation of endoscopically resected laryngeal lesions, 2007

Sleep Med : Thyroxine replacement therapy reverses sleep-disordered breathing in patients with primary hypothyroidism , 2006

Sleep Breath : Prediction of obstructive sleep apnea in patients presenting to atertiary care center, 2006

Indian J Med Res : Validation of the modified Berlin questionnaire to identify patients at risk for the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, 2006

J Oral Maxillofac Surg. : Malignant mesenchymal tumor arising from cherubism , 2004

Laryngoscope : Preoperative diagnosis of allergic fungal sinusitis , 2003

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology : Extraanasopharyngeal angiofibroma arising from the nasal septum, 2001

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology : Fire during the use of Nd-Yag laser , 2001

American Journal of Otorhinolaryngology : Osteogenic sarcoma of the temporal bone, 1997

Mycoses, : fungal sinusitis ; clinicopathological characteristics, 1996

Indian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck surgery : Sensorineural deafness in unsafe CSOM in the pediatric age group , 1996