Dr. Ravi A

Dr. Ravi A did his entire medical training at the Medical College, Calicut, Kerala. After completing his MS in ENT surgery in 1993, he joined the National Hospital, Calicut as an ENT specialist under Prof. K.C.Vijayaraghavan. He left this job in 1998 to form an independent Institute of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery 1998 in partnership with two other ENT specialists.

This became a benchmark institute in Kerala for treating ENT diseases. This team joined the newly formed Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences in 2001. Initially appointed as a senior consultant, he became the Head of the Department of the Institute of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery at MIMS in 2005. The Institute of ENT at MIMS is the only centre in Malabar in the private sector that has a Diplomate of National Board training program in ENT.

He is keenly interested in cochlear Implantation, micro-ear surgery, endoscopic sinus surgery and phonosurgery. He was involved in starting the first ever cochlear implantation programme in Kerala in 2002 at MIMS. Dr. Ravi performed the first surgery of Sruthitharangam (Govt-funded Cochlear Implant program in Kerala.) In addition to doing a large number of cases through this program at MIMS, he is also the mentor surgeon of the Sruthitharangam program at Calicut Medical College.

He was trained in cochlear implantation under Prof Gregorio Babighian at the University Hospital, Padova, Italy. He has also received advanced training in endoscopic sinus surgery under Prof. Heinz Stammberger in the University Hospital at Graz, Austria and in Voice pathology at the Freiberg Institute of Medical Sciences, Germany.

Dr.Ravi has to his credit one of the largest series of endoscopic repair of CSF rhinorrhoea and optic nerve decompression in Malabar.

He was the Secretary of Malabar Branch of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India for 3 years, from 1999 to 2001 and the President of the Association from 2011 to 2012.

He was the recipient of the Dr.Ashok Kumar Gold Medal for the best paper among practising ENT Surgeons in the AOI Malabar Branch in 2000. He has researched the prevalence of Allergic fungal sinusitis in Malabar and presented his observations at the SARC ENT Conference at Colombo, Srilanka

Publications:

1) ‘Allograft dura in myringoplasty’  (Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck surgery,  December 1993)

2) ' A Case of CSF Rhinorrhea Following Nasal Swab Testing For Covid-19' publ The International Organization of Scientific Research - Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) in January 2021)

3)  'Prevalence of Hearing Impairment in Neonates of Mothers with Diabetes Mellitus : A Cross Sectional Study  ( Indian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery in January 2021)

4) 'Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea : An Enigma'  ( The International Organization of Scientific Research Journal of Dental and Medical Science (IOSR-JDMS) in December 2021)

5) Tuberculous Otitis Media in a patient with Multiple Cerebral Tuberculosis- A case Report (  Indian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery in  October  2021)

6) A Prospective study of the Clinical Profile of Primary Otomycosis ( Kerala Journal of ENT and Head & Neck Surgery – Jan- June 2024 )

7)Treatment Outcomes of Multiple Canal Versus Single Canal BPPV- A Prospective Comparative Study ( Kerala Journal of ENT and Head & Neck Surgery – Jan- June 2025 )