A/Prof Faruque Riffat is a Otolaryngolist and Head and Neck Surgeon with post-FRACS fellowship training in head and neck oncological, thyroid/parathyroid, adult airway open/endoscopic laser surgery and transoral robotic surgery (TORS). He practices head neck surgery at Westmead Public and Private Hospital, Nepean Hospital and Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Hospital at RPA. He joined the Westmead ENT/Head Neck team after a period as a consultant in the head and neck team in Cambridge University Hospitals and is also the consultant in charge of the Westmead Tracheostomy Liaison Service. At present, he is the only robotic ENT head neck surgeon practising in Western Sydney (Westmead and Nepean LHD).

Faruque completed his medical degree at UNSW graduating in 2002 with MBBS (Hons 1), obtaining prizes in anatomy and microbiology. His entire JMO training was at Westmead Hospital, and he finished basic surgical training in 2005 after obtaining the prize for the highest score for the FRACS part 1 in Australia/NZ.

After a series of teaching hospital rotations (Westmead, Prince of Wales, Royal North Shore, Liverpool, Westmead /Sydney Children’s’ and John Hunter) in the NSW otolaryngology training scheme, including 18 months of tertiary paediatric ENT surgery, he was awarded the FRACS (Oto) in 2010. He then embarked on fellowship training to London and Cambridge focusing on paediatric and adult airway surgery, oncological surgery and thyroid/parathyroid surgery. His robotic surgical training was performed at University of Philadelphia and Lifehouse RPA Hospital.

He has an active interest in teaching and research in ENT/Head and Neck, having completed a masters in surgical education and has been involved in over 70 peer reviewed publications and abstracts.

Public Hospitals: 

• Westmead Hospital
• Nepean Hospital