Otolaryngologist Prof. Produl Hazarika, MBBS, DLO, MS, FACS, FRCS (Edin), FIAO, FUWAI, Fellow of UICC, is currently employed by NMC Specialty Hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He was formerly a professor, the chairman of the department of otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery at Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, India, and the director of postgraduate studies. He has over 100 articles in various national and international journals and 28 years of clinical teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He was chosen as an international guest scholar by the American College of Surgeons in 1986 and has since taken part in numerous fellowship programmes in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Switzerland, and Mauritius. He has led a number of practical workshops both abroad and in India. He accepted a two-year foreign posting as the chief of the ENT department at the Military Forces Hospital in Kuwait.