Emma Stapleton

Emma has been Consultant Otolaryngologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary since 2018, in a full-time clinical role. She is Clinical Lead for the Manchester Cochlear Implant Programme and Undergraduate Lead in ENT. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh, and has completed complex otology, auditory implant and skull base fellowship training in Glasgow and Manchester, Canada, Australia, and the USA.

She is currently President of the North of England Otolaryngology Society, and Past Chair of Women in ENT UK (WENTS). She is Director, Trustee and Editorial Board member of the Journal of Laryngology and Otology, and  also sits on the Editorial Boards of the European Archives of Otolaryngology, and Current Opinion in Otolaryngology. She is a Trustee of the TWJ Foundation and of the British Cochlear Implant Group. She is regularly invited to lecture nationally and internationally on her areas of expertise.

Emma is a part-time PhD student at the University of Manchester, investigating the effects of Type 2 Diabetes on audiovestibular function. She supervises research projects for medical students, MSc students, and academic trainees in ENT.

In addition to her clinical, academic and leadership work, Emma has considerable editorial and communications experience, as Editor in Chief of the ENT UK Newsletter 2015-2022; Associate Editor of ENT and Audiology News Magazine 2015-2024, and Editor in Chief of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's Surgeons News 2024-27.

Emma's recent achievements include being Guest of Honour speaker at the American Otology Society 2024. She was awarded the 2023 Rowena Ryan award for best young consultant led research by ENT UK, and the Gold Award for best research at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust 2023 research conference. She was awarded the 2022 Hunter-Doig Medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (awarded once every two years for excellence among the female membership). She has been the recipient of numerous research awards, including the Hallpike Prize, the George Seed Prize, the Hunterian Society Prize, the Philip Stell Prize, the RSM Otology prize, and the BACO Audiology Prize.

Her recent achievements in a supervisory role include the award of the 2024 Journal of Laryngology and Otology Prize to Mr. Mohammad Alzaid; the 2023 George Seed Prize to Dr. Sirat Lodhi; the 2022 Charles Diamond Prize to Mr. Zen Hussain, and the 2021 Phillip Stell Prize to Dr. Rohma Abrar. Her supervisees have also won recent awards and prizes from the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, ENT UK, and the British Society of Otology.

University of Manchester silver award for teaching, 2022

Founder and Patron, Manchester Foundation Surgical Society

RCSEd Regional Surgical Advisor 2019-23