Mr Sid Nagala qualified from St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London in 2003.

During his undergraduate training, Sid was awarded a BSc (Hons) in Neurosciences and Anatomy.  He underwent his initial surgical training in Newcastle hospitals, which included jobs in ENT, Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery. Following this, he spent a dedicated year teaching surgery to medical students in London leading to a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Education.Sid then completed a translational PhD evaluating imaging biomarkers in thyroid tumours at the University of Cambridge. During his research, he was awarded grants from Cancer Research UK and the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists. General ENT training was completed in the Yorkshire and Humber programme. He was awarded a prestigious National Interface Fellowship in head & neck surgical oncology which he undertook at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.

Sid supplemented his head and neck training with an observership at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York. In his final year of training, he was the President of the National ENT trainee association (AOT).

Sid is the ENT research lead at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and was appointed the NIHR Specialty lead for the Thames Valley in 2022 and actively engages in national NIHR trials, such as HOT and RABBIT.

Sid collaborates with the University of Reading with research interests including the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare specifically in patients with thyroid nodules and cancer. Heactively engages in national NIHR trials and has served as the regional ENT NIHR lead.

Sid was appointed onto the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons Executive committee as the Educational Lead in 2022.

Finally, he was one of the surgeons involved in performing the first UK transoral ‘scarless’ thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomies and continues perform this taking nationwide referrals.

Sid is married with two children.  He enjoys travelling and spending time with family and friends. When time allows, his hobbies include playing the piano, 5-a-side football, wakeboarding, scuba diving, and snowboarding.

Awards

• Cancer Research UK
• BAHNO Research Grant
• RCS Ethicon Travel Grant
• Monica Kornburg Memorial Grant, University of Cambridge
• ENT UK Foundation Grant
• NIHR Outstanding PI Award
• Innovation of the Year, Hospital CARE award

Medical Education

• Sid completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Education at the University of London in 2009
• Sid was appointed onto the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons Executive committee as the Educational Lead in 2022
• Sid’s research during his PhD led to a collaborative paper with the prestigious Head and Neck Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre.

Clinical Interests

• Neck lumps
• Head and neck surgery
• Thyroid and parathyroid surgery
• Salivary gland surgery
• Laryngology
• Voice and throat problems

Current NHS or Research Position

Consultant Thyroid and Parathyroid/ Head and Neck Surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Head and Neck MDT Chair, Royal Berkshire Hospital

Research Interests

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare specifically in patients with Thyroid nodules and cancer (University of Reading).

Published Works Papers

1. ThyExp: An explainable AI-assisted Decision Making Toolkit for Thyroid Nodule Diagnosis based on Ultra-sound Images. Morris J, Liu Z, Liang H,Hong X, Nagala S. 32nd ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM ’23) October 2023; Pages 5371–5375.
   
   
2. Improving Ultrasound Image Classification With Local Texture Quantisation. Li X, Liang H, Chen J , Nagala S. The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022). Singapore, 2022, pp. 1211-1215
   
   
3. Evolution of transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach according to the IDEAL framework. Lee S, Moorthy R, Nagala S. British Journal of Surgery. May 2022: 109(6): 497-502
   
   
4. Clinical efficacy of fixed-dose radioactive iodine for the treatment of hyperthyroidism at a single centre: our experience. Nair D, Maweni R, Constantinou C, Kandiah S, Aung T, Nagala S. Irish Journal of Medical Science. Aug 2022: 191(4):1659-1665 
   
   
5. Malignancy rates and initial management of Thy3 thyroid nodules in a district general hospital: The 'Reading' experience. Nair D, Kandiah S, Rourke T, Corbridge R, Nagala S. Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism. Feb 2021: 24: 4(3):e00243
   
   
6. Immunoglobulin G4-related disease of the paranasal sinuses. Bashyam A, Nagala S, Tahir F, Mirza S. BMJ Case Reports. 2018 May
   
   
7. Multi-institutional validation of a novel textural analysis tool for preoperative stratification of suspected thyroid tumors on diffusion-weighted MRI. Brown AM, Nagala S, McLean MA, Lu Y, Scoffings D, Apte A, Gonen M, Stambuk HE, Shaha AR, Tuttle RM, Deasy JO, Priest AN, Jani P, Shukla-Dave A, Griffiths J. Magnetic Resonance Medicine 2016 April; 75(4):1708-16
   
   
8. Does error feedback improve the learning of a simple surgical skill? Nagala S, Brar R, Phillips G, Van Wyk C, Lee M. Ann RCSEng (Suppl) 2014; 96: e1-e4
   
   
9. 3T diffusion-weighted MRI of the thyroid gland with reduced distortion: preliminary results. Taviani V, Nagala S, Priest AN, McLean MA, Jani P, Graves MJ. British Journal of Radiology, 2013 Aug, 86(1028):20130022
   
   
10. Extent of cotton-bud use in ears. Nagala S, Singh P, Tostevin P. British Journal of General Practice. 2011 Nov, 61(592): 662-3
    
    
11. Chronic cough – A 12 minute consultation. Clinical Otolaryngology. 2008 Apr, 3(2): 94-6. Nagala S & Wilson JA
    
    
12. Properties of neurotoxic peptides related to the BRI gene. Austen B, El Agnaf, Nagala S, Patel B, Gunasekera N, Lee M, Lelyveld V. Biochemical Society Transactions. 2002 Aug, 30(4): 557-9
    
    
13. Nonfibrillar Oligomeric Species of the Amyloid ABri Peptide, Implicated in Familial British Dementia, are more Potent at Inducing Apoptotic Cell Death than Protofibrils or Mature Fibrils. ElAgnaf O, Nagala S, Patel B and Austen B. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2001 Jun, 310: 157168

• British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons
• British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists (BAHNO)
• Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England