I am Otolaryngologist, and Head and Neck Surgeon specialising in the management of disorders of the head and neck, voice and swallowing. Since my Fellowship in head and neck surgery in Australia in the early 1990's, I have been committed to the pursuit of new ways of restoring normal quality of life to patients with diseases of the head and neck. I developed a decellularised biologic tissue combined with autologous cells and stem cells (either differentiated or undifferentiated), culminating in the world's first stem cell based organ transplant in an adult (Lancet, 2008) and in a child (unpublished, March, 2010). In October, 2010, I performed the world's first combined laryngeal and tracheal transplant with surgeons at the University of California Davis in a Californian woman who is now talking well. I was named Daily Telegraph-Morgan Stanley Briton of the Year for Science and Technology in 2009 and I am UCL Partners Programme Director for ENT.