Mr Ryan Chin Taw Cheong
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Location:
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital
GMC/GDC number:
7419156
Professional background
Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England FRCS(ORL-HNS)
Master of Science with Distinction in Health Data Analytics (University College London) MSc
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England MRCS(ENT)
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Imperial College London with Distinction MBBS
Bachelor of Science in Surgical Sciences Imperial College London BSc (Hons)
Mr. Cheong is a substantive Consultant ENT and sub-specialist Sleep Surgeon at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is currently the only Consultant ENT Surgeon in the United Kingdom with a full-time NHS practice exclusively in snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea surgery.
He is a multi-award-winning surgeon from prestigious institutions such as the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the British Rhinological Society. He completed his extensive higher surgical training in the full breadth of otorhinolaryngology (ENT) at world class institutions such as the Royal Marsden Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals and the Royal London Hospital.
He is the first surgeon in the United Kingdom to have completed the Royal Society of Medicine Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship at the Stanford University Hospital Sleep Medicine Division and the Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust Travelling Fellowship at the Asia Sleep Surgery Centre in Singapore.
He has delivered more than 30 international and national academic presentations and published in high impact peer-reviewed journals such as the Lancet and JAMA. He is a regularly invited international speaker at scientific meetings and is actively involved in teaching and developing the next generation of ENT surgeons. He has held multiple leadership positions in national ENT societies including the British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery. Mr. Cheong is passionate and committed to ensuring that every patient under his care receives personalized diagnostic and therapeutic treatment options that meet international gold standards of practice.
Research interests
Snoring, obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), rhinology, facial plastic surgery, head and neck surgery
Languages spoken
Mandarin, Malay
Publications
Cheong, R.C.T., Jawad, S., Adams, A., Campion, T., Lim, Z.H., Papachristou, N., Unadkat, S., Randhawa, P., Joseph, J., Andrews, P. and Taylor, P., 2024. Enhancing paranasal sinus disease detection with AutoML: efficient AI development and evaluation via magnetic resonance imaging. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, pp.1-6. (PMID: 38197934)
Cheong, R.C.T., Pang, K.P., Unadkat, S., Mcneillis, V., Williamson, A., Joseph, J., Randhawa, P., Andrews, P. and Paleri, V., 2024. Performance of artificial intelligence chatbots in sleep medicine certification board exams: ChatGPT versus Google Bard. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 281(4), pp.2137-2143. (PMID: 38117307)
Cheong, R.C.T., Unadkat, S., Mcneillis, V., Williamson, A., Joseph, J., Randhawa, P., Andrews, P. and Paleri, V., 2024. Artificial intelligence chatbots as sources of patient education material for obstructive sleep apnoea: ChatGPT versus Google Bard. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 281(2), pp.985-993. (PMID: 37917165)
Pang, E.B., Pang, K.P., Cheong, RCT., Pang, K.A., Montevecchi, F., Vicini, C., Chan, Y.H. and Rotenberg, B. Expansion sphincter pharyngoplasty in OSA: a 15 year review. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology 2023, pp.1-8. (PMID:36859707)
NIHR Global Health Unit on Global Surgery, COVIDSurg Collaborative (Cheong RCT). Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries The Lancet 2022 (PMID: 36328042)
Cheong RCT, Jephson C, Frauenfelder C, Cavalli L, Moshal K, Butler CR, Wyatt ME. Otolaryngologic Manifestations in Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With COVID-19 JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2021 (PMID: 33630068)
Mahalingam S, Green R, Slim MAM, Alatsatianos A, Ramakrishnan Y, Stew B, Hopkins C on behalf of 245 collaborative authors (Cheong RCT) The British Rhinology Society National COVID-19 Study: Resuming Elective Surgery Rhinology Online 2021 (DOI:10.4193/RHINOL/21.004)
ASiT/BOTA Lost Tribe Study Group, Cheong RCT. Early years postgraduate surgical training programmes in the UK are failing to meet national quality standards: An analysis from the ASiT/BOTA Lost Tribe prospective cohort study of 2,569 surgical trainees International Journal of Surgery 2018 (PMID: 29037970)
Bowles P, Cheong RCT, Cartwright S, Pelser A. Ancient schwannoma of the cervical sympathetic chain Clinical Case Reports 2017 (PMID: 28680598)
Cheong RCT, Harding L. Septic arthritis of the temporomandibular joint secondary to acute otitis media in an adult: A rare case with Achromobacter xylosoxidans. Case Rep Otolaryngol. 2017 (PMID: 28458938)
Cheong RCT, Bowles P, Moore A, Watts S Peri-operative management of high-risk paediatric adenotonsillectomy patients: a survey of 35 UK tertiary referral centres International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (PMID: 28390609)
Cheong RCT, Kassam K, Eccles S, Hensher R, Congenital Temporomandibular Joint Ankylosis. Case Rep Otolaryngol. 2016; 2016:5802359 (PMID: 27190665)
Cheong RCT, Chong YJ. Review: How would you persuade reluctant commissioners to purchase maxillofacial services from your Trust? British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2015 Dec;53(10):922-5 (PMID: 26160159)
Kassam K, Cheong R, Cascarini L, Parapharangeal edema: an uncommon complication of TMJ arthroscopy Clinical Case Reports 2015; 3(6): 496–498 (PMID: 26185656)
Kassam K, Cheong CT, Oracle Picture. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 50 (2012) 382–383
Chong YJ, Logeswaran A, Cheong CT, Logeswaran T, Global Health and Surgery in the UK. British Journal of Hospital Medicine January (2012), Vol 73, No 1 Published Online: August 16, 2013 (DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2012.73.1.53a)