Max Osborne

173 7 Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae Max Sallis Osborne was born in Worcester, UK on the 11th of July 1983 the youngest of two boys, his mother a biology teacher and his father worked in the cardiac medical technology industry. His childhood was spent in the boarders of Worcestershire and Shropshire where he attended Tenbury High School for his GCSE’s and The Royal Grammar School Worcester for his A-levels. Following this he studied for his undergraduate degree in Physiology at Cardiff University, gaining a 2.1 hons BSc. Prior to starting medical school Max took time to travel and work abroad including 6 months living and working in Dublin, Ireland as a medical sales customer service agent. 6 months in Queenstown New Zealand working in security and snowboarding. He then took part in the prestigious Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), Global Exchange youth program which aimed to increase social awareness and global citizenship. During this program Max lived and worked within local communities both in Feltham and Hounslow, London, UK, and Piliyandala, Colombo, Sri Lanka on a wide variety of charity and education projects, the single most enlightening experience of his life. Following this Max returned to the UK to undertake his medical studies, graduating MBChB in 2011 from University of Birmingham Medical School. Junior doctor training was undertaken in the West Midlands before entering an ENT themed core surgical training post in 2013. In 2015 Max successfully obtained a place on the West Midland ENT higher Surgical Training Program. During his 6 years of higher surgical training in Otolaryngology Max has gained broad experience in all aspects of ENT Surgery, developing a specialty interest in Otology and Paediatrics at an early stage which evolved in to interesting in to developing and designing research projects. While in his second year of higher training while working under the supervision of Ms Ann-Louise McDermott he was introduced to paediatric Bone conductive hearing technologies and took on an active role analysing and publishing research in this area maintaining strong links with Birmingham Children’s Hospital throughout the remaining of his training period. Max built upon his interest in otology and was awarded the MIO course award to attend the Nijmegan Ear Surgery course in 2019 which provided an excellent foundation to build upon in my higher training. He also placed 2nd in the RSM Cambridge Temporal bone competition that same year.

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