The majority of Ekpemi Irune’s work centres around malignant and benign head and neck surgery including thyroid surgery, though she provides some general ENT care. She has a special interest in transoral laser micro-surgery and more recently in transoral robotic surgery. In addition, she is a multi-fellowship trained facial plastic surgeon.

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Handbook of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery – Second Edition

The authors and contributors of this book have done a stellar job of updating the content while maintaining the portability essential for any ‘handbook’. They begin with a sound introductory section which presents a comprehensive road map to evaluating the...


Migration and training: a British-Nigerian surgeon’s perspective

Less than 4% of doctors on the UK’s medical register describe their ethnicity as African or part African, yet there are myriad driving forces behind the migration of medical trainees from Africa to the UK and other developed countries. Ekpemi...