Michael Kuo MBChB, PhD, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(ORL-HNS), DCH

Mr Michael Kuo is a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at Birmingham Children's Hospital and honorary consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

At the Children’s Hospital, Michael has a comprehensive paediatric otolaryngological practice with a particular interest in paediatric head and neck diseases, thyroid swellings, abnormalities of voice, airway problems, sleep disordered breathing and hearing disorders. He also contributes to the multidisciplinary paediatric cleft lip and palate programme. At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Michael provided a general adult otolaryngological practice from 2001 – 2010. Combining his passions for music and surgery, he collaborated with speech therapists and a voice consultant to provide a laryngological service to professional voice users.

Michael Kuo graduated from the University of Birmingham and was trained in otolaryngology on the West Midlands Higher Surgical Training Programme. A fluent Cantonese speaker, he also trained under Professor William Wei at the University of Hong Kong. He has visited several centres of excellence as a Royal College of Surgeons of England Ethicon Fellow including the Johns Hopkins University, the Boston Children’s Hospital and the Chicago Children’s Memorial Hospital.