Eng H. Ooi is currently Professor in the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University and Head of ENT Surgery at Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) and Noarlunga, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. He is a surgeon scientist with a strong interest in basic science, clinical research trials and performing complex head and neck, skull base and upper airway surgery. Eng is the Director for the Flinders Rhinology Fellowship. He supervises PhD, Master’s students and has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles. He has received 28 research grants including NHMRC and GPRWMF totaling over $3 million as well as serving as the Section editor in chief and editorial board members for several journals. He chairs the weekly Flinders Head and Neck Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Meetings, is a member of the altered airway team at Flinders and is Head of the FMC ENT Surgery Department leading a team of 10 surgeons, an advanced rhinology fellow, registrars, research registrars, residents, intern, medical scientist, a Head and Neck Nurse Practitioner and an Otology Nurse Practitioner.

He is a former President of the ANZHNCS and serves on Federal Council for ASOHN and the Fellowship Services and Professional Standards committee for RACS as well as executive boards of various professional societies.

Director of specialist private practice Adelaide ENT Surgery www.adelaideentsurgery.com.au 

Faculty member for Head and Neck Dissection and Airway Management, Advanced FESS, Endoscopic Management of Vascular Injury, Adelaide Tracheostomy, and Temporal Bone courses

Drug repurposing to treat head and neck cancers

Blood and breath biomarkers in head and neck cancers

Multi-level airway surgery in patients with OSA who have failed medical management

Nerve stimulation to treat obstructive sleep apnea

Quality of life outcomes in revision endoscopic sinus surgery

Pharyngeal augmentation for the treatment of dysphagia

Parental perception of a child's quality of life after tonsillectomy

Long term outcomes and complications of upper airway surgery for OSA

Prophylatic versus reactive gastrostomy outcomes for head and neck cancer patients undergoing chemo-radiotherapy

Tracheostomy's

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eng_Ooi3

https://www.adelaideentsurgery.com.au/our-surgeons/associate-professor-eng-h-ooi/

• March 2025 Rekha Ravutha Gounden - Masters of Surgery by Research
• Oct 2024 Shyan Vijayasekeran, PhD by Prior Published Work
• Oct 2023 Grace Maina - Masters of Clinical Science
• Jun 2023 Timothy Lee - Masters of Clinical Science
• Jul 2022 Sanith Cheriyan - Master of Surgery
• Feb 2022 Mistyka Schar - PhD
• Jan 2021 Nuwan Dharmawardana - PhD
• May 2020 Soumya - Master of Clinical Science
• Mar 2020 Vimal Sekhar - Master of Clinical Science
• Mar 2020 Lucy Huang - Master of Surgery
• Jul 2019 Randall Morton - PhD
• Jul 2017 Dhinashini Chandran - Master of Surgery
• Apr 2016 Jacob Jervis-Bardy - MPhil
• Oct 2015 Stephen Kao - Master of Clinical Science