Our Team

Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Miss Katharine Davies graduated from Cardiff University in 2007. Having completed her specialty training within the Mersey region she undertook the Head and Neck Fellowship in Aintree University Hospital and took up post as a Consultant Head & Neck and Thyroid surgeon within Liverpool University Hospital NHS Trust in April 2020.

Her work involves both malignant and benign Head and Neck surgery including thyroid and salivary gland pathology. She is actively involved in the recruitment of patients to trials including PATHOS, BEST OF and PITSTOP and undertakes clinics both on the Aintree and Broadgreen site.

Outside of clinical work she is part of the education team delivering regular programmed medical student teaching within the trust. During her fellowship she created multiple surgical, anaesthetic and patient information videos that are used for education and training.

She is the co-creator of the recently designed Liverpool Head and Neck Centre website and the aforementioned videos will form a substantial part of this. As part of this media development she has been creating multiple patient and professional educational resources to better inform patients about conditions treated and the investigations and treatment they may undergo.

She is actively involved with improving the diagnostic pathway for patients with Head and Neck cancer and, in conjunction with the Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance, is working on ways to achieve earlier diagnosis for patients with Head and Neck Cancer with the aim of improving treatment outcomes. Moving this work forward she is hoping to identify ways to get patients with head and neck cancer to present earlier and is part of a health inequalities group looking at barriers to this and ways to improve it.

Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Miss Munir is a senior consultant surgeon in adult ENT, Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base surgery at Aintree University Hospital, University Hospitals of Liverpool Group. She was apppointed in 2013 and at the time of her appointment, she was the only female ENT Lateral Skull Base Consultant Surgeon in the UK. She has been through UK training in all aspects of ENT and extensively trained in otology and the management of benign and malignant skull base and neurotology conditions. She has undertaken two world-renowned and competitive international fellowships in Toronto, Canada and Cambridge, UK. These are two prestigious world leading skull base units with the highest reputation for training leaders in the field.

Her day-to-day clinical practice consists of an outpatient and surgical workload of otology, advanced otology, neurotology and benign and malignant lateral skull base cases. She receives specialist and tertiary referrals from the Merseyside, Cheshire & North Wales regions as well as the Isle of Man, a total catchment population of 3.1 million people. She provides specialist expert ENT support to The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery and undertakes joint complex skull base surgical procedures at the regional neurosurgical centre. She provides a regional complex parotid surgery service, managing the most difficult salivary cases referred from the region as well as from other consultants within the unit. Her outcomes for this work are world class and have been presented at prestigious international meetings, including the American Association of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.

She is the regional head and neck paraganglioma MDT chair, which she set up in 2018 to ensure safe care with all appropriate governance for these complex and rare tumours. She has been the Past-Chair of the regional Skull Base MDT and continues to be a core member of the MDT. During her tenure as the MDT chair, she lead the clinical activity of the MDT, working to agreed Network guidelines, ensuring a high quality of integrated services which meet local, regional and national standards. She successfully lead the team through a rigorous National NHS Peer Review process. She established and ran several Annual Liverpool Skull Base Group meetings, ensuring all guidelines and policies were discussed as well as auditing the MDT’s activities and outcomes. She continues to contribute to the National Vestibular Schwannoma Audit.

She has a significant and varied education portfolio. She is the current Training Programme Director for Trainees Requiring Extra Support for the North West School of Surgery, and was until recently the Royal College of Surgeons of England surgical tutor for the Trust. She has set up, leads and teaches on the Merseyside temporal bone dissection courses for a number of years, educating well over 150 worldwide trainees. She teaches on all aspects of temporal bone anatomy, surgical approaches and hearing rehabilitation. She is invited faculty to national training meetings and training courses. She has published peer review articles as well as written and edited books and is the current Lateral Skull Base section editor for the upcoming 9th edition of Scott Brown Otorhinolarynology, which is the definitive British textbook for ENT. She is also the Section Editor for Journal Reviews for ENT and Audiology News, an internationally renowned speciality magazine. She was the Northwest deanery Speciality Training Education Committee Chair from 2020 – 2023, and sits on the Liverpool Head and Neck Centre education committee as the regional Otology representative. Day to day, she is a GMC accredited educational and clinical supervisor, providing training and supervision for all grades of junior medical staff. She undertakes formal teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate medical trainees as well as allied health professionals. Through her continued supervision, support and guidance several of her trainees have been successful in securing prestigious fellowships and consultant posts in otology and skull base surgery, including two further female Lateral Skull Base ENT Surgeons that have now been appointed in England.

She is the departmental governance lead, ensuring that the procedures and processes are implemented and adhered to ensure patient safety is of the highest order, as well as being the handler for any clinical incidents that arise within the department. She has undertaken significant development of the skull base service over her consultant career, ensuring that contemporary and modern practices are implemented and that outcomes are audited in order to meet the exacting standards our patients deserve. Her primary focus has always been and shall always remain, provision of the best possible care to all her patients.

Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Consultant Endocrine Surgeon since 2012

Clinical Director for Endocrine Surgery 

Specialises in thyroid and parathyroid cancer, retrosternal goitres and benign thyroid and parathyroid disease 

I am the MDT lead for the head and neck cytology MDT on the Royal site

I also specialise in adrenal surgery for Phaeochromocytoma/ Conns and Cushing syndrome and Adrenal cancer

I am a member of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons 

Other roles 

MDT lead for Adrenal MDT 

Undergraduate Clinical Subdean 

Recent Relevant Publications / book chapters 

2023: Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Intraoperative PTH Measurement - 50 Landmark Papers 

2021 Challanging Nice guidance : intraoperative PTH : The Surgeon 

2020 Thyroidectomy : Surgery Vol 38

2018 Thyroid Cancer : PEt-CT in thyroid cancer (BNMS)

2018 Thyroid Cancer Pathology : PET-C (BNMS)