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Dr. Sampath Chandra Prasad Rao is a Consultant Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgeon specialized in Skull Base Surgeries & Hearing Implantology.
Dr. Rao did his Masters at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore (Manipal University) bagging the best outgoing student in the process. He is the Fellow of European Board of Examinations and the European Academy of Otology & Neurotology. He was awarded the British Annual Congress in Otolaryngology (BACO) fellowship twice, Birla Smarak Kosh Fellowship & the GSE fellowship of Rotary International and the Ten Outstanding Indians Award from Junior Chamber International (JCI).
He completed his 2-year fellowship in Skull Base Surgeries, Hearing Implantology and Advanced Otology at the Skull Base unit of Casa Di Cura Piacenza (Italy) & was awarded Fellowship of the European Academy of Neurotology (EAONO). He continued to work in Italy with Mario Sanna, Jacques Magnan and Paolo Castelnuovo for a total of six and a half years accumulating vast experience in Skull Base Surgery.
Dr. Rao has over 100 peer reviewed scientific publications (h index of 19), 15 chapters in various textbooks & one text book on Cochlear & other Auditory Implants by Thieme International. He is the recipient of the Best paper award at the Politzer Society Meeting in 2013.
Dr. Rao was awarded with an honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) in 2019, and a visiting Professorship to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of Asia's largest Universities. He is an invited faculty at the World Federation of Skull Base Societies and European Skull Base Congresses. He was also honored with the Dr. GS Grewal Oration at the 71st Annual Congress of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India AOICON in 2018, the Prof. Allaudin Memorial Oration at the 17th National Conference of ORLHNS 2019 of the Society of Otolaryngologists & Head Neck Surgeons of Bangladesh, the Karnataka ENT Oration at the 37th Karnataka State ENT Conference AOIKCON 2019 and the Prof. SR Singh Oration at the UP State ENT Conference 37th UPAOICON 2019. He has been invited to the Skull Base Courses organised by the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) and has been an invited speaker at the National Conferences of the Italian, Egyptian, Turkish, Saudi, Bangladeshi, UAE and Indian societies.
He has pioneered many new concepts in skull base surgery in India. He is the Founder of World Skull Base, an international organization and an NGO. The WSB Fellowship Diplomas in Skull Base Surgery offered by World Skull Base in Bangalore, are the 1st curriculum based skull base courses in India that are awarded a University Diploma.
ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist
Otologist/ Neurotologist
Head and Neck Surgeon
DS Grewal Oration at the 70th Annual conference of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India, 4th to 7th January 2018, Indore, India - 2018
Felicitation with a shawl, certificate and memento by the Bangladesh ENT Association and the Bangladesh Society of Otology at the 2nd Advance Temporal Bone and Skull Base Dissection and Surgery workshop, 21st to 24th August 2017, Dhaka, Bangladesh - 2017
Felicitation with a scroll and memento by the Andhra Branch of the AOI at their 35th Annual AOI Conference, 5th September 2016. - 2016
Honorary Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, awarded on 26th August 2016 by the President & Secretary of IAOHNS. - 2016
Global Otology Research Forum (GLORF) best paper award - Neurotology & Skull Base Surgery, Politzer Society Meeting, Antalya, Turkey - 2013
Best paper award, Neurotology 2013, 11th-12th April, Milan, Italy - 2013
Rameshwardasji Birla Smarak Kosh Fellowship, 2013 for Neurotology & Skull Base Surgery at Gruppo Otologico, Piacenza, Italy - 2013
14th British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology (BACO) fellowship, 2012, Glasgow, UK - 2012
13th British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology (BACO) fellowship, 2009, Liverpool, UK - 2009
Borekatte Laxmi Devi Memorial Award for the best out-going MS (Otorhinolaryngology) student, Manipal University, 2006 - 2006
Prof. MV Venkatesh Murthy Gold medal for the best poster presentation. 22nd Karnataka State Conference of the Karnataka branch of AOI, 16th-19th April 2004, Mysore - 2004
Second prize, Dr. Kishore Chandra Prasad Gold Medal for the best quiz team in the ENT quiz competitions, South Zone Conference of AOI, 25-28th September 2003, Thrissur - 2003
