MBBCh, MSc, MRCS, DOHNS, FRCS, CCT

Mr Mohammed Bahgat is a Consultant ENT Surgeon based at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. He does a weekly clinic at University Hospital of North Tees and Friarage hospitals. His private practice involves weekly clinics in Nuffield Tees hospital and Woodlands hospital in Darlington.

Mr Bahgat has a super-specialist experience on advanced sinus surgery and facial plastic surgery. He undertook his ENT registrar training in the North East, rotating through prominent centres including:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary
• Freeman Hospital
• Sunderland Royal Hospital
• James Cook University Hospital

To broaden his expertise, Mr Bahgat pursued international training and visits at two of the world’s leading skull base centres: The University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre (UPMC) in the USA and Varese in Italy. These experiences allowed him to learn directly from globally renowned endoscopic sinus and skull base surgeons.

Mr Bahgat regularly performs functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) with a particular focus on the management of revision and advanced cases, where previous surgery did not achieve the required results. This includes:

• Frontal sinus pathology
• Benign and malignant tumours of the nasal cavities
• Fungal rhinosinusitis
• Endoscopic repair of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks

He works regularly with colleagues in neurosurgery on pituitary and skull base surgeries and is a regular member of both pituitary and skull base multi-disciplinary meetings.

Mr Bahgat has been invited as a faculty member in the national advanced sinus surgery cadaveric course, and the annual international facial plastic surgery course.
In addition to his expertise in rhinology and facial plastic surgery, Mr Bahgat also treats a wide range of general ENT conditions including:

• Tinnitus and dizziness
• Ear infections
• Voice problems
• Globus sensation (feeling of a lump in the throat)
• Snoring surgery
• Allergic rhinitis (hay fever)
• Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
• Deviated septum (Septoplasty)
• Nasal polypectomy
• Rhinoplasty (or nose reshaping)
• Balloon Sinuplasty
• Hearing loss
• Grommet insertion
• Microsuction earwax removal

Mr Bahgat works with chest physicians to optimise nasal symptoms in patients with uncontrolled asthma or COPD. He has worked extensively with GP’s lecturing in local educational meetings. He has delivered multiple presentations on the diagnosis and management of different ENT conditions, including allergic rhinitis (hay fever) with the use of allergy testing for better control of the condition.

He is committed to offering patient-centred consultations, providing all the information needed to help patients make informed choices in a friendly and honest way.

Mr Bahgat has a keen interest in research. He dedicated over a year to a full-time research position in Wales before commencing his registrar training. His research focused on investigating quality of life and swallowing outcomes following various treatment modalities for head and neck cancers, including surgery and/or chemoradiotherapy. The findings were presented at multiple international conferences. He has over 20 research papers published in international journals in the field of ENT.

ENT UK
British Rhinology Society
European Rhinology Society
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

Advanced sinus surgery
Functional and cosmetic rhinoplasty

James Cook University Hospital