Research Interests

In 2013 a patient under his care had completely lost his sense of smell following a nasal injury in his youth. Several years later following nasal airway reconstruction surgery for nasal blockage he unexpectedly noticed a complete return of his sense of smell. This story gained national press recognition.

His other research interests include understanding the function of the nose and facial reanimation surgery. He is developing subjective patient reported outcomes measures as well as objective outcome measures following nasal surgery. In addition he’s developing objective outcome measures following dynamic facial reanimation.

Collaborations

Peter has set up a MD/PhD programme at the EAR Institute specifically looking at the role of nasal surgery in improving olfaction in collaboration with Professor David Choi, Dr Dan Jagger’s team and Professor Jonathan Gale. In addition he has developed strong international collaborations with Professor Thomas Hummel in Dresden looking at the role of endoscopic sinus surgery in improving olfaction as well as formulating nasal national guidelines in the management of poor olfaction.

He has established strong collaborations with Dr Terence Leung, Senior Lecturer at the UCL Biomedical Engineering department and they share a PhD programme focusing on designing an acoustic medical device which can measure nasal airflow.

Links:

• Evening Standard: Health surgeons gave me back my smell after 40 years
• UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering