Dr. Vandana Binu

About Doctor DR. VANDANA BINU

• Dr. Vandana has worked in the field of otorhinolaryngology for over 13 years. 

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  She obtained experience in various types of ENT, head and neck procedures while working at Dr. Noushad's ENT clinic in Cochin, Kerala, a renowned tertiary care ENT hospital. 

• She was a senior consultant and the head of the ENT department at the Indo American Brain and Spine Hospital in Vaikom, one of India's top neurosurgical centers. 

• She gained considerable experience in different endoscopic and advanced skull base procedures, including pituitary tumor resections and difficult CSF leak repairs, while working with the neurosurgery team led by Dr. Kumar Bahuleyan, the world's senior-most neurosurgeon from the United States.

• She had won the gold prize for her presentation on stridor study at FHNOCON in 2007. 

• She traveled across continents and learned more about skull base surgery from experts such as Heinz Stammberger. 

• T.N. Janakiram and Rainer Weber In 2017, she attended training sessions at the Sinus Academy in Berlin, Germany, with skull base surgeons Thomas Kuhnel and Werner Hosemann. 

• In 2019, she completed an observership in Dr. Sampath Chandra Prasad's World Skull Base Fellowship Program and improvised her repertory. 

• She gave talks at national and international conferences and published articles in prestigious journals.

• She specializes in numerous minor and large surgical procedures, including ENT emergencies, and practices general otorhinolaryngology. 

• Advanced endoscopic sinus procedures, Sinonasal skull base surgeries, and middle ear surgeries are among her main interests and competence.

Awards and certificate

• Published original research work on multiple myeloma ‘Study of factors predicting therapeutic response in multiple myeloma.’in Journal of orthopedics, 2008.

• Role of estimation of ABG in the evaluation of stridor’ published in Indian journal of otolaryngology, vol 62, April-June 2010 in Mangalore.

Memberships

• Life member of Indian medical association

• Life member of Cochin society of otolaryngologists (CSOM)

• Life Member of the Association of Otolaryngologists, India

• Life member of Kottayam ENT club

• Life member of ENT club, Abu Dhabi