Professional background

Surangi Mendis is a consultant in audiovestibular medicine and neuro-otology at The Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, UCLH. She graduated from King’s College London in 2009 and whilst at medical school also undertook an intercalated BSc in infectious diseases and immunobiology. After completion of general practice training on the Lewisham VTS scheme, she worked in general practice before going on to complete higher specialist training in audiovestibular medicine on the pan-London programme. She has experience in the diagnosis and management of vestibular, hearing and tinnitus complaints. 

Surangi is particularly passionate about empowering patients to take ownership of their own health condition(s) and is a medical writer for the patient information platform, patient.info. She is a team-player who is involved in service improvement and teaching of audiovestibular medicine clinicians in training. 

Surangi was twice the recipient of The British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians (BAAP) national audit prize. She has co-authored a book chapter on the diagnostics of third mobile window disorders and has written online training modules for junior ENT and audiovestibular clinicians, including contributions to the European Academy of Neurology e-Brain e-learning resource.

Research interests

She is pursuing a research interest in Meniere's disease of autoimmune aetiology.

Publications

  • Diagnostic Testing of Third Mobile Window Disorders - book chapter in Third Mobile Window Syndrome of the Inner Ear.
    Mendis S, Koohi N, Patel J.  Book editors: Gianoli G, Thomson P
    Springer. Published 09/1/2023
  • eBrain e-learning modules; Approach to Central and Peripheral Vestibular Disorders, Part 1 and 2
    Mendis S, Magos T, Kaski D
    eBrain, Joint Neurosciences Council. 2022 Aug 16.
  • Video head impulse testing: Pitfalls in neurological patients
    N. Koohi, S. Mendis, A. Lennox, D. Whelan, D. Kaski 
    Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2022 Sept 17., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2022.120417
  • Autoimmune Vestibulopathy-A Case Series.
    Mendis S, Longley N, Morley S, Korres G, Kaski D.
    Brain Sci. 2022 Feb 24;12(3):306. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12030306. PMID: 35326263
  • Saccadic Oscillations as a Cause of ‘Refixation Saccades’ with Normal Gain on Video-Head Impulse Testing 
    Mendis S , Lennox-Bowley A , Castro P, Kaski D.
    Poster presentation at The 13th Meeting of the British Society of Neuro-otology, 11-12 November 2021  
  • Isolated imbalance due to bilateral vestibular failure following immune checkpoint inhibitor administration: two cases.
    Mendis S, Ealing J, Larkin J, Turajlic S, Carr A, Bronstein A, Kaski D.
  • Eur J Cancer. 2021 Aug 28;156:187-189. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2021.07.024. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34464870 
    Poster presentation at The World Congress of Neurology, 7-11 October 2021
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of Meniere's disease: early clinical experience in a UK centre.
    Pai I, Mendis S, Murdin L, Touska P, Connor S.
    J Laryngol Otol. 2020 Apr;134(4):302-310. doi: 10.1017/S0022215120000626. Epub 2020 Apr 3. PMID: 32241307
  • Improving transition outcomes in adolescents with permanent hearing loss.
    Spyridakou C, Mendis S, DeVal D.
    BMJ Open Qual. 2019 Jun 21;8(2):e000336. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2018-000336. eCollection 2019. PMID: 31297452