Background and Training

Jaan Panesar is a consultant paediatric ENT and head and neck and facial plastic surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust. She also practises at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Windsor, at Bishops Wood Hospital in Northwood and at BUPA Harpenden.

She is accredited by the Specialist Advisory Committee in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and has been awarded her certificate of completion of specialist training by the Specialist Training Authority of the Medical Royal Colleges.

Special Interests

paediatry otolaryngology

thyroid and parotid lumps

head and neck cancer

snoring

facial plastics

Jaan Panesar studied medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA and did her specialist training in Otolaryngology at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Northwick Park, Charing Cross and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. She has also worked at Great Ormond Street and completed a two year paediatric research fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Having trained at centres of excellence, Jaan Panesar has a comprehensive understanding in all aspects of paediatric ENT in particular children with adeno and tonsillar disease, hearing loss and airway disorders. She uses a multidisciplinary approach to patients with head and neck cancer and snoring. She has helped develop a sleep disorder clinic which won the Hospital doctor prize.

Jaan Panesar's position as a successful woman in a highly demanding and male oriented speciality was covered in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Herald and Post. An extractr reads:

HOSPITAL consultants, and particularly surgeons, can appear aloof and even arrogant, but it's certainly not the case with Jaan Panesar, whose friendly and engaging personality seems sure to put her patients at ease.

Providing those patients with the best care and treatment she possibly can is her priority.

She says: "The general public has some pretty high expectations on the standards of conduct and service they want to see from the medical profession, and rightly so. We have a duty to strive to meet those standards."