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Mr Declan Costello

MA MBBS FRCS (ORL-HNS)

Consultant ENT Surgeon

GMC number: 4630120

Special interests:

Voice disorders, Laryngology

Specialist Treatments

Treatments offered at King Edward VII’s Hospital include, but are not limited to:

  • Glottoplasty
  • Laryngoscopy
  • Stroboscopy
  • Vocal Fold Injection
  • Microlaryngoscopy

My Practice

I’m a highly-qualified laryngologist who specialises in voice disorders, particularly in performers. As a music graduate and current active singer, I am well placed to treat performers.

Professional Biography

Mr Costello is a consultant ENT surgeon specialising in voice disorders. Having completed a music degree at St John’s College, Cambridge (where he was a choral scholar), he studied medicine at Imperial College, and undertook his postgraduate training in the Oxford region. He was appointed as a consultant in 2010 and has a specific interest in voice disorders, both in performers and non-performers.

He has developed a large practice in treating singers and actors, and in neurolarygology. He is one of a small number of ENT surgeons performing vocal cord treatments under local anaesthetic.

Additional Information

COVID-19 Specific Projects / Groups

I lead on a project called Perform to look at the amount of aerosols and droplets generated by performers. This research has provided a rigorous scientific basis for COVID-19 recommendations for art venues to open safely, for both performers and audience, by ensuring that spaces are appropriately ventilated to reduce the risk of airborne transmission.

I have also developed the COVID Airway Screen, a device which protects healthcare workers from droplet splatter generated during aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs).

Career Highlights

I was instrumental in helping to change government policy to allow singing to open up again in the pandemic in mid-2020.

Awards

I’ve won the following awards:

  • 2016 BMA Medical Book Awards
  • 2014 BMA Medical Book Awards

Memberships

I am senior Editor for Head & Neck of ENT and ENT News magazine and Chair of Continuing Professional Development Committee for ENT-UK.

I am a member of the following:

  • British Laryngological Association
  • Scientific Council of the European Laryngological Association Examiner
  • Musicians Health Advisory Board for Help Musicians UK
  • Medical Committee of British Association of Performing Arts Medicine
  • Vocal Rehabilitation Committee Media
  • Presidential Council of the European Laryngological Society

Training Positions

I have frequently run workshops for consultants in performing vocal cord injections in clinic.

Cutting Edge Technologies

My clinic is one of the very limited number of places in the UK that can inject vocal cords in clinic.

Publications

I have contributed to wide range of publications on laryngology and voice disorders.

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