Research and Training

Dr Sean Flanagan’s current research projects involve analysis of the growth rates and hearing outcomes of vestibular schwannomas (acoustic neuroms; tumours that arise from the nerve of hearing and balance). This also includes histopathologic analysis of the tumours that need to be surgically removed in order to further advance our understanding of these tumours and optimise management and quality of life of patients with these tumours.

Dr Sean Flanagan is a member of the St Vincent’s Hospital ENT and Skull Base Surgery Department. He is a co-convener of the St Vincent’s Hospital Temporal Bone course held yearly. This course involves live surgery, supervised dissection and lectures aimed at qualified ENT surgeons as well as advanced ENT trainees. The next course runs from November 5,6,7 2010.

The department also runs a yearly audiology conference which includes live surgery and lectures aimed at audiologists to expand their knowledge base and to enhance the relationship between ENT surgeons and audiologists.

Anyone interested in registering for these courses please contact:

Margi Griffiths
Research Development Assistant
St Vincent’s Clinic
438 Victoria Street
DARLINGHURST 2010
Phone: (02) 8382 6413
Fax: (02) 8382 6402
mgriffiths@stvincents.com.au

The members of the department run fortnightly multidisciplinary radiology and pathology meetings as part of the departments primary goal in maintaining world class standards as a tertiray referral centre for otology, skull base surgery, rhinology and head and neck surgery.