David Richards

My Objective is to continue learning and gaining experience in the field of Otolaryngology after having obtained the necessary training to bring a first world standard of care to the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago and in particular your institution as a Specialist Medical Officer in Otolaryngology(Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery). I have a special interest in sleep medicine and sleep surgery, rhinology, and facial plastic surgery.

• Supervised team of 5 staff members.
• Achieved the first research of its kind in the English Speaking Caribbean through effectively designing and executing objectives for the project HPV infection in Head and Neck Cancer
• Collaborated with teams from the Diabetic Association and Community Leaders in the hosting of health fairs in various Communities.

• ATLS, 07/01/14
• Basic surgical skills training, 01/01/14

Diabetes and the Ear Nose And Throat National Diabetic Symposium 2023

Supracricoid Laryngectomy in Trinidad and Tobago- First Report in the English Speaking Caribbean National Health Research Conference

HPV in Head and Neck Cancer National Health Research Conference 2021

HPV in Head and Neck Cancer Caribbean Association of Otolaryngologists, Barbados, 2021

Maxillary Tumour, 26th Annual Caribbean Association of Otolaryngologists, Barbados, 2018

Tracheostomies in the Caribbean (Poster Presentation- won best poster) Caribbean College of Surgeon, Barbados, 2018

-University of the West Indies St. Augustine

-August 2023- Observership Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Sleep Medicine Department

-2019 a clinical Observer-ship at Royal National Throat Nose and Ears Hospital under the tutelage of supervisor Prem Randhawa Consultant Rhinologist and Facial Plastic Surgeon Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, University College London Hospital NHS Trust in July 2019 for 1 month. During this observership I spent time in a voice clinic with Head of The European Laryngological Society Professor John Reuben

• CBT- I Sleep Course, Edinburgh, UK, 05/01/23
• Head and Neck Surgery Dissection Cadaver Course, Newcastle, UK, 05/01/23
• Occupational Hearing Conservationist qualification, 01/01/23
• Laser Surgery Safety Course, Dundee Institute of Head and Neck Education, 12/01/22
• Advanced Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Course, Belgium, 08/01/22
• Sleep Medicine Course, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 05/01/22
• Temporal Bone Course, UWI Department of Clinical Surgical Science, 2017
• Ultrasound image guided biopsy, UWI Department of Clinical Sciences in partnership with Trinidad and Tobago Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgeons (TTOSHNS), 2016
• Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Course, UWI Department of Clinical Surgical Sciences, 2014
• Basic ENT surgical skills course, UWI Department of Clinical Surgical Sciences, 2014

• Date of Birth: 09/15/88
• Nationality: Trinidad and Tobago

• TTAPS (Trinidad and Tobago Advent Professional Society), a charitable Christian none-profit organization involved in a variety of charitable ventures
• Diabetes Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Research contributor and collaborator
• Numerous health fairs promoting health and wellness

• Diabetes Association of Trinidad and Tobago
• Heliconia Foundation for Young Professionals

-Fitness, wellness and amateur body building 

- touring musician for over 20 years (Steel pan)