Dr. Avvaru Satya Kiran — Senior ENT Head & Neck Consultant & Chief Cochlear Implant & Lateral Skull Base Surgeon in Hyderabad

Dr. Avvaru Satya Kiran is Senior ENT Head and Neck Consultant and Chief Cochlear Implant and Lateral Skull Base Surgeon at Yashoda Hospitals in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, with more than 23 years of experience.

Hearing restoration is the centre of the practice. Cochlear implant surgery and pediatric cochlear implant surgery are listed separately, alongside bone-anchored hearing aid surgery, stapedectomy, mastoidectomy and hearing loss. Three different routes to restoring hearing on one list is what the cochlear implant half of his title describes. Septoplasty, sinus surgery, tonsillectomy, sleep apnea surgery, laryngeal surgery and pediatric airway disorders complete it.

His training was built for that work. He read MBBS at Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal between 1998 and 2003, took the DLO at Osmania Medical College in Hyderabad from 2006 to 2008 and the DNB at MAAA ENT Institute from 2009 to 2011, then a post-doctoral fellowship in implant otology at Christian Medical College in Vellore between 2013 and 2015. Further training followed at the Institute for Cochlear Implant Training in Los Angeles, an observership in otology and neurotology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and a World Skull Base Foundation diploma course at the Ramaiah Advanced Learning Centre in Bengaluru, which corresponds to the lateral skull base half of his title.

He took first prize with a gold medal for the best skull base surgery video at AOI TS CON in Warangal in 2021, a Cochlear Implant Group of India fellowship award at CIGICON in Kochi in 2016, and an Indian Society of Otology foreign travel fellowship at ISOCON in Visakhapatnam in 2015.