Professor Lloyd is a consultant Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeon based in Manchester. He is also Honorary Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Manchester. He works at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and at Salford Royal Hospital.

He studied Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London qualifying in 1996. During his training he obtained a first-class honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of London and a MPhil in Neurosciences from Cambridge University.

He trained in ENT surgery in London working at some of the leading hospitals in the country including the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. He became a fully accredited Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon in 2006 and then undertook sub specialist training in skull base surgery at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge as well as undertaking a number of international fellowships in the United States and Denmark. He was appointed to his current position in 2009.

He works as part of the Manchester Skull Base Unit, the Manchester Auditory Implant team and the Manchester Neurofibromatosis type 2 team. These teams are each the largest of their kind in the UK and the only team in the UK offering both adult and paediatric auditory brainstem implantation. He is the clinical lead for otology at Manchester Foundation Trust.

Professor Lloyd regularly teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is frequently invited to speak internationally and has an active research programme focused on skull base disease and auditory implantation. He has published over 90 peer reviewed papers and 13 book chapters. He has also edited 3 books including the leading textbook on vestibular schwannoma. He has been awarded a prize from the Royal Society of Medicine for the best original research in ear surgery over the past 5 years.

He runs a skull base surgery course which attracts delegates from around the world. He is ex-president of the British Society of Otology and is President of the Otology section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is a trustee of the Skull Base Foundation, a charity providing support for research and training in skull base.

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Adult and paediatric ear problems including:

Otology

• Ear canal problems eg. Otitis externa, exostoses, ear canal cholesteatoma
• Ear drum perforation and retraction
• Middle ear problems eg. Glue ear, Acute otitis media, Cholesteatoma, Otosclerosis
• Eustachian tube dysfunction

Neurotology

• Vertigo including Meniere’s disease, BPPV
• Tinnitus
• Superior semi-circular canal dehiscence

Skull base Disease

• Vestibular schwannoma
• Facial nerve disease
• Petrous bone cholesteatoma
• Brain herniation

Hearing implantation

• Cochlear implantation
• Auditory brainstem implantation

• Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and ex-president of the Otology section
• Member and ex-president of the British Society of Otology
• Member of the British Skull Base Society