Dr Kishore Sandu

Currently, Dr Sandu heads the Airway Unit of the Service of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). This sector is recognized as centre de médecine hautement spécialisée (centre for highly specialized medicine) by the Swiss Conference of the Cantonal Ministers of Public Health.

Dr Sandu has been an active member of this unit for more than 10 years. He has published extensively in peer reviewed international journals and has written several book chapters on the pediatric and adult compromised airway. He is a reviewer of articles for the Laryngoscope and the International Journal of Pediatric Otolaryngology. He is the Editor to the Advisory Board, Yonsei Medical Journal, Korea.

He specializes in the treatment of complex airway obstructions and laryngotracheal stenosis. He is invited to give talks on difficult airway stenoses and travels extensively in Europe, USA and Asia. Originally from India, Dr Sandu is a Fellow of the European Board of Otolaryngology and a Swiss board certified otorhinolaryngologist and head - neck surgeon. He is a member of the Swiss ENT society and the Swiss working group on head and neck surgery.