Dr Kaukab Rajput
Overview
Dr Kaukab Rajput is a leading consultant paediatric audiovestibular physician at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London since 1999. She has worked at GOSH for over twelve years and currently leads the Cochlear Implant Department.
Dr Rajput is the clinical coordinator and lead clinician in the cochlear implant program at this hospital, one of the largest paediatric cochlear implant programs in the UK, which has a team of 21 people from a multi-disciplinary background.
Dr Kaukab Rajput is an expert in the diagnosis of hearing loss in children with complex problems. Dr Rajput's main responsibilities involve diagnosing and managing hearing loss in very young children to adolescents. She sees high-risk children and monitors their hearing. She specialises in hearing and balance problems in children, hearing loss, tinnitus, speech and language delay, and auditory neuropathy and ototoxicity. She has a special interest in auditory neuropathy as well as ototoxicity and prevention of hearing loss in children on ototoxic drugs.
Dr Rajput completed her training in ear, nose and throat surgery and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1992. She underwent a training post at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, in audiovestibular medicine. She obtained her MSc in audiological medicine in 1995 and became a consultant in 1999. In 2009, she was granted a fellow of the Royal College of Physician (FRCP) London.
Dr Rajput has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her main research area is cochlear implantation in children as well as prevention of acquired hearing such as meningitis and ototoxicity. She was involved in cutting edge research published in Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine. She has a special interest in innovative and novel therapies.
Dr Rajput organises national academic meetings in her speciality, discussing cutting edge research developments. She has set up and published new research in key areas in peer-reviewed journals. She has been part of the national quality assurance team assessing the implementation of the newborn hearing screening programme.
“I am constantly striving to do the best for my little patients. I firmly believe that every child must be given the opportunity to achieve their full potential despite disabilities such as hearing impairment. Many of my patients have complex medical problems. Sometimes hearing impairment can be the only aspect which can be optimised and this can change their quality of life significantly.” —— Dr Kaukab Rajput
Credentials
All aspects of inner ear disorder in children presenting with hearing difficulties and balance problems i.e hearing loss, balance disorders, cochlear implant and ototoxicity.
• Hearing and balance problems in children
• Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder
• Cochlear Implant
• Ototoxicity
• Aetiology of hearing loss
• Acquired hearing and balance problems such as post Meningitis, post-traumatic i.e head injury or noise exposure
• Hearing and balance problems in children
• Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder
• Cochlear Implant
• Ototoxicity
• Aetiology of hearing loss
• Acquired hearing and balance problems such as post Meningitis, post-traumatic i.e head injury or noise exposure
Training:
• FRCS
• MSc
• FRCP
Membership:
• General Medical Council
• British Medical Association
• International Association of Audiovestibular Physicians
• British Society of Neurology (BSNO)
• British Cochlear Implant Group (BCIG)
Dr Rajput is currently one of the lead investigator for an international study assessing the otoprotection against Cisplatin ototoxicity. Due to be completed in October 2017.
Dr Rajput has published research in peer-reviewed journals and has overseen several MSC and BSc students project.
Dr Rajput organises national academic meetings in her speciality, discussing cutting edge research developments. She has set up and published new research in key areas in peer-reviewed journals. She has been part of the national quality assurance team assessing the implementation of the newborn hearing screening programme.
• Main research interest is cochlear implantation in children as well meningitis and ototoxicity
• Several research projects already completed in vestibular testing in children with hearing loss, physical, psychological, social and economic burden consequent on survival from bacterial meningitis and/or meningococcal septicaemia and 'A one-year open-label, multicenter trial to assess efficacy, safety and tolerability of Canakinumab(ACZ885)' and the efficacy and safety of childhood vaccinations in patients aged 4 years or younger with Cryopyrin Associated Periodic Syndromes
News & Publications
Dr Rajput has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, including most recently;
Viner, R.M., Booy, R., Johnson, H., Edmunds, W.J., Hudson, L., Bedford, H., Kaczmarski, E., Rajput, K., Ramsay, M., Christie, D., 2012. Outcomes of invasive meningococcal serogroup B disease in children and adolescents (MOSAIC): a case-control study. Lancet Neurol. 11(9) pp. 774-83.
Brogan, K., Eleftheriou, D., Rajput, K., Edelsten, C., Sebire, N., Brogan, P., 2012. Tubulointerstitial nephritis, uveitis, hearing loss and vestibular failure:TINU-atypical Cogan's overlap syndrome. Rheumatology (Oxford). 51(5) pp. 950-2.
Kilsby, A. J., Cruwys, M., Kukendrajah, C., Russell-Eggitt, I., Raglan, E., Rajput, K., Loshe, P., Brady, A.F., 2013. Homozygosity for piebaldism with a proven KIT mutation resulting in depigmentation of the skin and hair, deafness, developmental delay and autism spectrum disorder. Clin Dysmorphol. 22(2) pp. 64-7.
Russo, R.A.G., Melo-Gomes, S., Lachmann, H.J., Wynne, K., Rajput, K., Eleftheriou, D., Edelsten, C., Hawkins, P.N., Brogan, P.A., 2013. Efficacy and safety of canakinumab therapy in paediatric patients with cryopyrin-associatedperiodic syndrome: a single-centre, real-world experience. Rheumatology. 2014;53 pp. 665-670.
Trozzi, M., Powell, H.R., Toma, S., Ahmed, W., Jephson, C.G., Rajput, K., Cochrane, L.A., 2014. Cochlear re-implant rates in children: 20 years experience in a quaternary paediatric cochlear implant centre. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol.
Nash, R., Veness, J., Wyatt, M., Raglan, E., Rajput, K., 2014. Vestibular function in children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 78(8) pp. 1269-73.
Rajput, K., and Bitner-Glindzicz, M., - Chapter 30. Hearing and Balance in Children. MRCPCH Mastercourse - The Science of Paediatrics. published in 2016.
Mahon, M., Rajput, K., Vickers, D., 2016. Expert opinion: Assessing cochlear implant candidacy and progress for people with English as an additional language. Cochlear Implant Internation 17(sup1) pp. 59-61.
P.R. Brock, R. Maibach, M. Childs, K. Rajput, D. Roebuck, M.J. Sullivan, V. Laithier, M. Ronghe, P. Dall’Igna, E. Hiyama, B. Brichard, J. Skeen, M.E. Mateos, M. Capra, A.A. Rangaswami, M. Ansari, C. Rechnitzer, G.J. Veal, A. Covezzoli, L. Brugières, G. Perilongo, P. Czauderna, B. Morland, and E.A. Neuwelt. Sodium Thiosulfate for Protection from Cisplatin-Induced Hearing Loss. N Engl J Med 2018;378:2376-85.
K.Rajput, M. Saeed, J. Ahmed, M. Chung, C. Munro, S. Patel, C. Leal, D. Jiang, R. Nash. Findings from Aetiological investigations of children with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder referred to cochlear implant program. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 116 (2019) 79–83.
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