Ben Hartley is a Consultant Paediatric Otolaryngologist and Head and Neck Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, UK. He is also Associate Professor at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health University College London. He has specialized in Paediatric Head and Neck and airway surgery and has extensive experience of surgery for paediatric malformations, tumours and airways the FRCS in General Surgery then Otolaryngology. He trained in otolaryngology in London then took the US medical licensing examinations and travelled to the USA to be Clinical Fellow in 1999-2000 with Dr Robin Cotton at Cincinnati. He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, multiple book chapters and reviews for several journals. He has taught extensively on paediatric airway surgical courses and pioneered