Kings College, London, UK

Prof. Claire Hopkins BMBCH, FRCS(ORLHNS) undertook her medical training at Oxford University and was awarded with a First Class Degree in Physiology and Distinctions in Medicine in 1993; she undertook specialist ENT training in London. She completed her Fellowship in Advanced Rhinology at Guy’s and St Thomas’, where she was appointed as an NHS Consultant. She is a Consultant ENT Surgeon and Professor of Rhinology at King’s College, London.

Her research focuses on improving outcomes from both medical and surgical treatments for nasal conditions. She has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers, 30 book chapters and is invited to lecture all around the world. She has written international guidelines on the management of sinusitis and nasal polyps, and has been involved in the development and introduction of several advances in this field, including the use of biological therapies.

She is the Past-President of the British Rhinological Society, the Secretary General of the European Rhinologic Society, and the President Elect Rhinology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. She is the Academic Chair of ENTUK’s biannual conference and has represented ENT-UK on a patient safety panel at the Royal College of Surgeons and chaired the UK Commissioning Guidance Group for Sinusitis.

Prof. Claire Hopkins has been awarded a National Clinical Excellence Award in recognition of her contribution to NHS work, and a FRCS(ab hominem) by the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in recognition of her contributions to surgery.