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Miss Paula Coyle

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  • Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

GMC/GDC number:

7015829

Professional background

Miss Paula Coyle BSc(Hons), BMBS(Hons), DOHNS, DCH, FRCS(ORL-HNS) is a consultant ENT surgeon at UCLH and the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals. She has a specialist interest in paediatric ENT, having completed her fellowship at the globally renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Graduating in medicine from Nottingham University in 2008, she won the Medical Women’s Federation Prize for Child Health. Prior to starting ENT Registrar training, she gained invaluable, transferable skills through a clinical fellowship in a tertiary Level 3 neonatal unit, gaining competencies in neonatal intubation, airway management and completing the Diploma of Child Health.

Miss Coyle pursued her surgical training in London and East of England Deanery, including Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. After fellowship, she was a locum paediatric ENT Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for over 2 years, winning Best Teaching on the Job – Surgical Division 2022 and a Making a difference award. She became a substantive ENT consultant subspecialising in paediatric ENT with us at UCLH in 2024. She conducts regular clinics for both paediatric and adult ENT cases, as well as working alongside the infant feeding team in running the neonatal tongue tie service.

She is a member of ENT UK, EPSO (European Paediatric Society of Otolaryngology) and BAPO (British association for Paediatric Otologology). She was the Women in ENT Surgery UK (WENTS) president 2018-2021 and is passionate about supporting women and diversity in ENT surgery.

Specialties

Research interests

Paediatric ENT

Publications

Book chapters:

  1. P Coyle, C Jephson. Otolaryngology. Great Ormond Street Handbook of Paediatrics. An Illustrated Guide. 3rd Edition. December 2024. ISBN 9781032006871
  2. Roplekar Bance R, Coyle P, Robb P J. Chapter 56. Tonsils and Adenoids. Logan Turner 12th Edition. October 2024. ISBN: 9781138366435
  3. Editor of Paediatric ENT Chapter. ENT Vivas: A Guide to Passing the Intercollegiate FRCS (ORL-HNS) Viva Examination. Adnan Darr, Karan Jolly, Jameel Muzaffar. August 2022 ISBN 9781032113401
  4. Coyle P, Maughan L, Hewitt R, Butler C. Tracheal replacement and tissue engineered airways. Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine, 2nd Edition. Sept 2021, p. 779-787. ISBN 9780081027233

Peer-reviewed papers: 

  1. Timothy Davies, Anne Markey, Noor Janjua, Jacquline Chan, Kate Stephenson, Heather Newport, Thushita Kunanandam, Christine English, Jaya Nichani, Kade Harbert, Eishaan Bhargava, Miran Pankhania, Ayla Tabaksert, Steven Powell, Emily Davis, Richard Brown, Rhodri Costello, Jack Sandeman, Sarah O'Donnell, Mary Consunji, Rebecca Brown, Paula Coyle, Joseph Ward, Elizabeth Whittaker, Adam Fearing, Mohamed Elmarghani, Mary-Louise Montague, Madhankumar Krishnan. A multicentre observational study of paediatric head and neck abscesses. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2024 Sep 17:186:112117. PMID: 39353300
  2. G Nuredini, P Coyle. Outcomes Following Paediatric Tonsillectomy From a UK Tertiary Centre: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust’s Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cureus 2024 Sep 5;16(9):e68732.. PMID: 39371850
  3. Bance RRR, Acharya V, Coyle P, Panesar J. To X-Ray or Not to X-Ray? Discussing Unknown Nasal Foreign Bodies and Button Batteries. Ear Nose Throat J. 2021 Jul 31:1455613211033123. PMID: 34338035.  
  4.  Raithatha A, Coyle P, Talwar R, Dias A. An interesting case report of delayed presentation of visual loss from an Ethmoid Mucocoele. Should we offer emergency decompression? Int J Surg Case Rep. 2021 Apr;81:105744. PMID: 33743244.
  5. S Konstantinidou , P Coyle, G Pandey, C Butler. Multilevel tracheal granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) lesions in a paediatric patient. BMJ Case Reports. 2021 Feb 4;14(2):e241064. PMID: 33541970
  6. Bance, R, Coyle, P, Dias, A, Kothari, P, Shah, K, Thaj, J, & Vaz, F. Reducing the rate of fistula: Does a fibrin sealant act as an adjunct in pharyngeal closure? A two centre experience. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 2020 Jul;134(7):623-625. PMID: 32741379
  7. Hall A, Frauenfelder C, Butler C, Coyle P, Hopkins C. Paediatric olfactory dysfunction: a chance to detect COVID-19? Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2021 Mar;106(3):e17. PMID: 32819914  
  8. Bastianpillai J, Saxby C, Coyle P, Armstrong A, Mohamid W, Mochloulis G. Evaluating nasal cautery techniques in epistaxis. J Laryngol Otol, 2019 Oct;133(10):923-927. PMID: 31587687
  9. P Coyle, N Tan, N Jonas. Sleep disordered breathing and dysphonia in a pediatric patient - laryngeal amyloidosis as an unusual diagnosis. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2019 Jul:122:44-46. PMID: 30959336
  10. E Bhargava, P Coyle, B Wong, A Masood, A Qayyum. To scan or not to scan - A cross-sectional analysis of the clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of audiometric protocols for magnetic resonance imaging screening of vestibular schwannomas Otol Neurotol. 2019 Jun;40(5S Suppl 1):S59-S66. PMID: 31225824
  11. Swords C, Coyle P, Qayyum A, Masood A. Unusual case of nasal obstruction. BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Feb 16:2017:bcr2016218998. PMID: 28209648
  12. McClelland E, Marzouk S, Coyle P, Tatla, T. Optical Loupes: A Useful Tool for the Oncall Otorhinolaryngologist- Our Experience. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Oct;71(Suppl 1):137-141. PMID: 31741948
  13. Saxby C, Coyle P, Mochloulis G. How we do it: the intra-operative identification of a pharyngocele. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2017 Jul;274(7):2965-2967. PMID: 28508181
  14. A. Vijendren, M. Coates, M.E. Smith, O.V. Ajayi, W. Al-Dhahir, J. Bewick, P.F. Bowles, P. Coyle, C.R. Davies-Husband, S.E. Erskine, E. Halliday, A.I. Kaleva, A. Lau, L. Langstaff, E. Mathew, S. Meghji, A.I. Testera, J.R.V. Thomas, M. Eisenhut. Management of pinna of haematoma study: A multicentre retrospective observational study. Clin Otolaryngol. 2017 Dec;42(6):1252-1258. PMID: 28247538
  15. Coyle P, Marzouk SD, Gerolympou M, Marais J. Hot tonsillectomy for paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea. BMJ Case Rep. 2014 Jun 6:2014:bcr2013203378. PMID: 24907212