Dato’ Professor Dr Prepageran Narayanan

MBBS (UM), MS (ORL, Distinction , UM), USMLE (US), FRCS (Edin), ORL-HNS FRCS (Glasg), , FAAOHNS (US), Fellowship in Neurotology/Otology (Canada), AM (Mal), DPT, DPMP

Dato’ Professor Dr Prepageran Narayanan is a Senior Professor and Senior Consultant in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

His appointments include:

a) Visiting or Adjunct Professor in 11 universities around the world including India, Mongolia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, Brunei, Hungary, Bhutan, and South Africa
b) As Invited Expert Surgeon for complex cases more than 500 cases in Malaysia, and Internationally in Thailand, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Bhutan, Hungary, Pakistan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Brunei etc
c) Head of Department, Dept of ORL and Head & Neck Surgery University Malaya 2011-2016
d) Chairman National Conjoint Board of Otolaryngology Specialist Training Committee in Otolaryngology and Residency of Malaysia 2013
e) President Malaysian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery (President 2013-2014)
f) President 9th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery of the Skull base, Brain and Spine (President 2020-2024)
g) President Asian Research Symposium in Rhinology (President 2015-2017)
h) President Asia Pasific Symposium in Cochlear Implant related sciences APSCI (President 2025)
i) President Asia Pacific Otology Neurotology Conference 2013
j) President Asian Research Symposium in Rhinology (President 2015)
k) International Working Group Endoscopic Ear Surgeons (IWGEES)
l) As Chairman/ Committee member of more than 50 local and international committees/ societies/ panel of expert

More than 250 Live surgical demonstration dissections in workshops globally in UK, USA, Hungary, Canada, Spain, Romania, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Pakistan, Bhutan, Taiwan,Korea, Hong Kong, India, Australia, Algeria, South Africa, Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Portugal etc and Asean countries,

Runs a four day 360 skullbase workshop encompassing Endoscopic Anterior Skullbase, Endoscopic Otology, Exoscope Otology with Implants and Lateral Skullbase
in University Malaya since 2005( 25th Workshop this August) and have trained more than 600 surgeons globally. He now organizes this workshop for Eastern Europe in Szeged Hungary, in Cape Town for Africa, in Taiwan and Pakistan.

His latest publication include the Surgical Atlas of 360 degrees Skull Base Surgery published by Thieme Publishers in 2022. It is a book of more than 1000 pages encompassing the entire range of Skull Base Surgery, detailed step by step surgical techniques, tips, tricks to avoid complications with collaboration with surgeons from Harvard, Oxford and Ohio University. His other works have been documented in

a) 16 Books
b) 3 Lateral Skull Base Surgery Ebooks with free videos accessible globally
c) 19 Surgical Manuals
d) 63 Book chapters
e) 285 Peer reviewed papers
f) 21 Teaching on Electronic media
g) YouTube channel:  ENT Skullbase UMMC with more than 8000 subscribers and 180 videos
h) 147 Abstracts/ Posters/Conference proceedings
i) 900 presentations as invited speaker/ Faculty

* He has also found the time to supervise
a) 6 PhD candidates
b) 62 Post-Graduate candidates( direct supervisor), more than 120 as Co supervisor
c) 65 Clinical Fellows from Malaysia, England, Switzerland, Kenya, South Africa, Mongolia, India, Uganda and Greece etc

He is one of the very few surgeons who is globally recognized for both anterior and lateral skull base (including cochlear implant and endoscopic ear) work.