Dr Shashidhar T BPaediatric ENT, airway & snoring surgeonExcellence every patient, every time Book appointment

Teaching and academics

Training ENT surgeons at Artemis Hospitals and teaching airway surgery at workshops in India and Nepal.

The DNB ENT programme at Artemis

Dr Shashidhar has been lead faculty for the DNB (Diplomate of National Board) postgraduate programme in ENT at Artemis Hospitals since 2022.

8DNB residents trained
100%exam pass rate, last three years
25+papers and book chapters

Residents work alongside him in the OPD, the operating theatre and on the wards, with regular teaching sessions, journal reviews and research. He is also a national DNB examiner and an NBEMS webinar faculty member.

Admission to DNB ENT seats is through the national NEET-PG entrance examination.

Dr Shashidhar with the ENT department team at Artemis

Airway surgery workshops

Live surgery, cadaver and simulator training for surgeons who want to treat airway narrowing safely.

  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Lucknow
  • Hyderabad
  • Vijayawada
  • Raipur
  • Vadodara
  • Sirsa

Chief faculty for the Society of Otolaryngologists of Nepal paediatric airway workshop, course organiser for the Airway Course in Lucknow, and a founding member of the National Association of Airway Surgeons of India.

Dr Shashidhar teaching at a workshop in Kathmandu Hands-on airway simulator training

Recent invited faculty roles

  • IFOS World Congress, Istanbul, 2026XXIII World Congress of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
  • ISOCON 2026, AmritsarOptimising results in sudden sensorineural hearing loss
  • Chennai Paediatric Airway Congress, 2023 and 2026Key resource faculty and session moderator
  • IAOHNS Mid-Term Conference, Hyderabad, 2026
  • PHONOCON 2024, 2025 and 2026Talks on airway surgery and AI in laryngology
  • International LARYNX Conference, Chennai, 2024
  • Paediatric ENT Meet, CMC Vellore, 2022Glotto-subglottic stenosis
  • Airway symposium, AIIMS New Delhi

Selected publications

  • Closing the gap: the role of cap grafts in tracheocutaneous fistula closureIndian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 2024. With K. Balakrishnan (Stanford).
  • Pedicled pericardial patch tracheoplasty in long-segment tracheal stenosisIndian J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg, 2016.
  • Adenotonsillectomy in Arnold–Chiari malformationIndian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 2023.
  • Multimodal analysis of the COVID-19-associated mucormycosis outbreak in DelhiMycoses, 2023.
  • Laryngotracheal stenosis and its managementBook chapter, Elsevier Point of Care, 2022.
  • Paediatric vertigoBook chapter, Textbook of Vertigo, Elsevier.

More than 25 papers and book chapters in total. Peer reviewer for Frontiers in Surgery.

At conferences and workshops