MBBS FRACS

Prof Raymond Sacks initially qualified as an ENT Surgeon in 1992 in South Africa and then repeated his training and FRACS exam, gaining FRACS in 1996.

Since then he has been actively involved in both academic and administrative duties and currently sits on multiple Boards of RACS, ASOHNS, Sydney University, Macquarie University and the Australian Government Department of Health. He is the Current Head of ENT Surgery at the University of Sydney and has been a PhD examiner at 7 different universities. He is a co-Director of the Sydney Rhinology Fellowship which is currently on the US Match Program.

He has been a keynote speaker and invited faculty on courses throughout the world covering 32 countries on 6 continents. He is also on the Editorial Board of multiple journals and has published more than 130 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals as well as 23 book chapters, a Manual of endoscopic sinus surgery and a Textbook on Endoscopic surgery of the Orbit. His current H-Index is 31.

Prof Sacks has received multiple special awards and medals including, the RACS Academy of Surgical Educators Award for Educator of the Year 2020, the ASOHNS Medal for Distinguished Service in the Science and Art of Otolaryngology, the RACS Medal for Outstanding Service to the Court of Examiners, the NSW RACS medal for Distinguished Service to Surgery in 2017 and The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation medal for 2018. He was the Foundation speaker to the Royal Society of Medicine in London in 2018 and continues to be actively involved in Teaching, Research and Examination.

His area of special interest is in Nasal and Sinus disease and General Paediatric Otolaryngology.