Dr. Ravi A

About Doctor DR. RAVI A

• Dr. Ravi did his entire medical training at Medical College, Calicut, Kerala. After completing his MS in ENT surgery in 1993.
• He joined National Hospital, Calicut as an ENT specialist under Prof. K.C. Vijaya Raghavan.
• He left this job in 1998 to form an independent
  Institute of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery in 1998, in partnership with two other ENT specialists.
• This team joined the newly formed Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences in 2001.
• Initially appointed as a senior consultant, he became the Head of the Department of The Institute of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery at MIMS in 2005.
• The Institute of ENT at MIMS is the only center in Malabar in the private sector that has a Diplomate of National Board training program in ENT.
• He is keenly interested in cochlear Implantation, micro-ear surgery, endoscopic sinus surgery and phono surgery.
• He was involved in starting the first ever cochlear implantation programme in Kerala in 2002 at MIMS.
• He performed the first surgery of Sruthitharangam (Govt funded Cochlear Implant program programming Kerala.) In addition to doing a large number of cases through this program at MIMS, he is also the mentor surgeon of the Sruthitharangam program at Calicut Medical College.
• He has also received advanced training in endoscopic sinus surgery under Prof. Heinz Stemberger in the University Hospital at Graz, Austria and in Voice pathology at Freiberg Institute of Medical Sciences, Germany.
• He has to his credit one of the largest series of endoscopic repair of CSF rhinorrhea and optic nerve decompression, in Malabar.
• He was the Secretary of Malabar Branch of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India for 3 years, from 1999 to 2001 and the President of the Association from 2011 to 2012.