Dr. Priya Pathat Karunakaran is our Specialist ENT working in Ahalia Hospital, Mussafa. Being the specialist Consultant in ENT, Dr. Priya Pathat Karunakaran has been practicing medicine for more than 26 years which includes 20 years of ENT experience & 6 years of teaching experience in ENT. Dr. Priya obtained her medical degree MBBS from BLDEA’s Shri M Patil Medical College, DLO from KMC ( Kasthurba medical college ) Mangalore, and MS (ENT) from Rajah Muthia Medical College(Tamilnadu).

In 2006, she moved to UAE to take the position of an ENT Specialist at a private hospital and continued to work as an ENT specialist in a major private hospital in UAE. She is well versed in all the major modalities of ENT and her area of interest includes Nasal Allergy (trained in Germany and Spain), Snoring (USA), Micro Ear Surgeries, Nasal Surgery, Rhinoplasty, Turbinate Cauterization, Snoring evaluation, Speech Screening, and Foreign Body Removal – Nose, Ear, Throat

Professional Biography

• Specialist ENT –Ahalia Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE (since 2019)
• Specialist ENT – Universal Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2016-2019)
• Specialist ENT – Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, UAE (2006 – 2016)
• Assistant Professor ENT – Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Pondicherry, India
• Specialist ENT- Government Medical College, Thrissur, Kerala, India
• Resident ENT – Head and Neck Oncology, Amritha Institute of Medical Sciences, Kerala, India

Specialty Interest

• General ENT
• Allergic Diseases
• Nose
• Sinuses
• Micro Ear Surgeries
• Ear Perforation Closure (Tympanoplasty)
• Nasal Surgery
• Polyps
• Chronic Sinusitis (Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery or FESS)
• Rhinoplasty and Septoplasty
• Turbinate Cauterization
• Adenoidectomy
• Tonsillectomy
• Snoring evaluation
• Blocked Ear
• Ear wax removal
• Tympanometry for Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
• Epistaxis (Nose bleed)
• Foreign Body Removal – Nose, Ear, Throat
• Hearing Loss
• Balance Test
• Speech Screening

Memberships

Fellow of Academy of General Education, Manipal, India.

Member of Travancore-Cochin Council of Modern Medicine Registration No. 30776

Member of Karnataka Medical Council Registration no: 41780

Member of Tamilnadu medical council

First Prize- Gold Medal, Anoop Raj S.L. Chopra Award