Dr. Zaheer Al-Amin

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – PRESENT AND PAST:

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• Senior Consultant & Head,ENT and Head & Neck Surgery Department, Impulse Hospital, Tejgoan, Dhaka, Bangladesh From Jan 2017 till Nov 2022.

• Professor and Head of the Department, ENT and Head-Neck Surgery Department, BIRDEM from November, 2007 till Jan 2017.

• Associate Professor , Consultant & Head , ENT – Head & Neck Surgery Dept. BIRDEM, Dhaka, Bangladesh – from 21.11.2001 to November 2007.

• Assistant Professor (Junior Consultant) and Head, ENT - Head & Neck Surgery dept., BIRDEM, Dhaka, Bangladesh - from 16.9.1997 to 20.112001.

• Irish Training program in Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Reconstructive surgery, a registrar level training program for three years, sponsored by RCS in Ireland started from 1 July 1994 as follows: Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 01, Jan'97 to 30 June'97. Our Ladies Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 1 July 96 to 31 Dec. 96 Fedarated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals / St. James Hospital, Dublin 1 Jan 96 to 30 June 96. Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 1 July to 95 to 31 Dec 95 University College Hospital, Galway 1 Jan 95 to 31 Dec. 95 Temple Street Children’s Hospital / Mater Hospital, Dublin 1 July 94 to 31 Dec. 95

• Clinical Attachment in E.N.T.-Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby, U.K. 1 Feb. 94 to June 94.

• S.H.O. in E.N.T. Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby, U.K. 5 April 93 to 31 Jan. 94

• S.H.O. in E.N.T. Southend General Hospital, Essex, U.K. 22 June 92 to 4 April 93.

• S.H.O. in Orthopaedics - Southend General Hospital, U.K. 1 Aug. 91 to 21 June 92.

• S.H.O. in Orthopaedics - Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, U.K. 15 April 91 to 31 July 91.

• Clinical Attachment in Ophthalmology - Royal infirmary of Edinburgh, U.K. 1 March 91 to 31 March 91.

• S.H.O. Ophthalmology - Dhaka.Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, 1 Nov. 90 to 15 Feb. 91

• Clinical Attachment in Ophthal. -Royal infirmary of Edin, U.K. 16 July 90 to 15 Oct. 90.

• S.H.O. in General Surgery - Samorita Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 15 Jan. 88 to 14 June 88 and in Ahmad Medical Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 15 June 88 to 30 June 89.

• Emergency Med.Officer : Bijar District General Hospital, Bijar, Iran. 3 Feb. 85 to 10 Jan. 88.

• S.H.O.Gen.Medicine –Dhaka Medical College Hospital Dhaka, Bangladesh, 27 Nov. 84 to 26 Jan.85. • In-Service Training - Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, 27 Nov. 83 to 26 Nov. 84.

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​EXPERIENCE IN E.N.T.

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OUTSIDE BANGLADESH:

I have done D.L.O. (Eng), F.R.C.S. (E.N.T.) from both Ireland and Edinburgh. Besides Bangladesh, I worked both in the United Kingdom and in the Irish Republic. In Ireland I worked in the "IRISH TRAINING PROGRAMME IN OTOLARYNGOLOGY/ HEAD & NECK RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY", a three year training programme at registrar level, sponsored by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Before that in U.K. I worked as SHO in Southend General Hospital and in Derby Royal Infirmary.

IN BANGLADESH:

After coming back to Bangladesh I joined BIRDEM (Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders) as the head of the ENT department. I designed, founded and organized the ENT department here. This department was planned, founded and organized by myself after I came back to this country from Ireland in 1997. Besides myself there are one registrar, one assistant registrar and four medical officers. It has microscopes both in the theatre and in the OPD. Endoscopes both rigid and fibreoptic are available in the OPD. I started Endoscopic Sinus Surgery in this country. Microsurgical procedures in the ears and all major head & neck surgeries are routinely done in this department. We also deal with all types of ENT emergencies. It is to mention here that I am doing all sorts of routine as well as complicated procedures in ENT of almost all types on a regular basis independently without any help for the last seven years Other than routine operations, my operative experience is summarized as follows.

HEAD AND NECK:

PERSONAL: Laryngectomy, laryngo-pharyngectomy, different types of neck dissections, parotid surgeries – superficial and deep, thyroid surgeries – total, near total & lobectomies, mandibulotomy, commando procedure, mandibulectomy with or without oessiointegrated prosthesis, palatectomy,total glossolaryngectomy, Excision of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma and parapharyngeal tumours, submandibular duct surgery, submandibular gland excision, branchial cyst excision, thyroglossal cyst excision, tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, Laryngoscopy,Oesophagoscopy, Bronchoscopy, tracheostomy, uvulopalatopharyngo-plasty, laser excision of tongue and oral lesions, Pharyngeal pouch excision and cricopharyngeal myotomy, Pectoralis Major myocutaneus flap, revision surgery for laryngeal stoma. ASSISTING ( performed while I was in the United Kingdom & Ireland ): Radial forearm freeflap, Jejunal freeflap, Laryngo - pharyngo - oesophagectomy with gastric pullup or jejunal freeflap.

OTOLOGY:

PERSONAL: Grommets, Aural polypectomy, Excision and grafting of lesions of the pinna, Preauricular sinus excision, Pinnaplasty, Myringoplasty, Cortical mastoidectomy, Modified radical mastoidectomy, Radical mastoidectomy, Atticotomy, Ossiculoplasty and Tympanoplasty, Meatoplasty, Stapedotomy and Stapedectomy, Labyrinthectomy, Creating artificial external meatus in congenitally absent meatus, Creating artificial pinna in congenitally rudimentary pinna ASSISTING (performed while I was in the United Kingdom & Ireland) : Facial nerve decompression, Excision of acoustic neuroma, , Cochlear Implant surgery.

RHINOLOGY:

PERSONAL: Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS), endoscopic repair of CSF fistula, endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy, endoscopic orbital decompression, lateral rhinotomy, craniofacial resection, excision of post-nasal tumours, total and partial maxillectomies, E.U.A. nose and nasopharynx, turbinate surgery including cryo and excision and submucosal dissection, nasal polypectomy, septoplasty, repair septal perforation by local or distal flap, septorhinoplasty, surgery for choanal Atresia etc.