Ray Clarke is an honorary consultant paediatric ENT surgeon in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Liverpool, and President of ESPO (European Society of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology). He is the joint Editor-in-Chief of Scott Brown’s Otolaryngology. Ray is Past-President of BAPO (British Association for Paediatric Otolaryngology) and of the North of England Otolaryngology Society.
Latest Contribution
Tonsillectomy in adolescents
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common operations performed across the developed world. Salil Sood and Ray Clarke discuss the special considerations that apply when performing this procedure on adolescent patients. Tonsillitis in teenagers can be exceptionally painful and disruptive....
Welcome to BACO Liverpool: a city with deep roots in ENT
Liverpool is a city steeped in ENT history, so it is fitting that BACO is being held there once more. Ray Clarke, former editor of ENT and Audiology News, casts his eye over the historical legacy of that fine city....
Medicine and Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney grew up in the 1940s. Infectious diseases – diphtheria, poliomyelitis, mumps, measles and rubella – were rife. Stepping Stones recalled talk among older neighbours of ‘a-waiting on’ when they were close to death. Aunts and uncles succumbed to...
