Consultant Otologist and Lateral Skull Base Surgeon
MBBCh (Cardiff), FRCS (ORL-HNS) RCS(Eng)
Miss Nazia Munir is a Consultant Otologist and Lateral Skull Base Surgeon who now spends some of her time working privately at Enigma Healthcare in Tarporley. She also works at Aintree University Hospital within the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where she was appointed as a consultant in 2012 and is a senior specialist in adult ENT, otology, neurotology, and skull base surgery. At the time of her appointment, she was the only female ENT Lateral Skull Base Consultant Surgeon in the UK.
Her clinical practice focuses on complex ear and skull base conditions, including both benign and malignant disease. She has extensive experience in advanced otological (ear) surgery, neurotology, and lateral skull base procedures, and manages tertiary referrals from across Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales, and the Isle of Man. She also provides specialist ENT input to The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Liverpool, contributing to joint skull base surgical procedures alongside neurosurgical teams at the regional neurosurgical centre.
She provides a regional complex parotid surgery service, managing the most difficult salivary cases referred from across the region as well as from other consultants within her NHS practice. Her outcomes for this work are world class and have been presented at prestigious international meetings, including the American Association of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.
Miss Munir completed UK ENT specialist training and undertook two highly competitive and respected international fellowships in skull base surgery in Toronto, Canada and Cambridge, UK. These posts are world-wide recognised training centres of excellence for advanced otology and skull base surgery.
She set up and is chair of the regional multidisciplinary team focused on safe and high-quality care for paraganglioma cases, ensuring appropriate governance for these complex and rare tumours is maintained. She is a core member of the regional skull base MDT and is a past chair of the MDT. She contributes to national audit and quality improvement initiatives in vestibular schwannoma treatment. She has played a key role in developing regional governance and service standards for skull base surgery and she successfully lead the team through a rigorous National NHS Peer Review process.
In addition to her clinical work, she has a strong academic and educational portfolio. She serves as the Training Programme Director for trainees requiring additional support within the North West School of Surgery and has held senior educational leadership roles within the Royal College of Surgeons of England framework including that of Surgical Tutor. She is heavily involved in surgical training, particularly temporal bone dissection courses, educating well over 150 trainees worldwide and has contributed to international textbooks and journals in ENT and skull base surgery.
Her primary focus has always been and shall always remain, provision of the best possible care to all her patients.
