Dr. Andrew Thamboo, Otolaryngologist, Vancouver, BC

Dr. Andrew Thamboo

Dr. Andrew Thamboo

Otolaryngologist
Vancouver, BC
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Dr. Andrew Thamboo Bio

Dr. Andrew Thamboo completed his undergraduate, medical degree and residency at University of British Columbia (UBC).  During his residency, he obtained another degree in Masters in Health Sciences concentrating on study design and epidemiology.   He has been awarded a number of distinguishing awards in his short career such as the Dr. I.B. Holubitsky Memorial Award for demonstrating the highest of surgical excellence at UBC. Dr. Thamboo got accepted to the most coveted Rhinology and Skull Base Fellowship at Stanford University.  He was recruited back to the UBC after two years at Stanford. Dr. Thamboo is considered one of the busiest rhinologists in British Columbia and has unique practice.  He primarily manages referrals from his colleagues or other tertiary specialists (such as allergist and respirologists).  He deals with patients with complex sinus disease and sinonasal tumors. He also works with neurosurgery at Vancouver General Hospital to manage intracranial tumors. Dr. Thamboo is a national and international leader in this field.  He has given an number of lectures and taught at courses since he has come back to UBC.  
 
Dr. Thamboo is also known as a translational researcher.  Dr. Thamboo is the Research Director of the St. Paul’s Sinus Centre.  In collaboration with Respirologists, he has a lab associated with Heart and Lung Institute. Dr. Thamboo has an interest in areas of unified airway hypothesis, upper airway physiology, office based rhinology, personalize medicine and outcomes research. He was the first surgeon at UBC to receive the Michael Smith Foundation Health Investigator Award. He hopes his research will help patients in the management chronic sinus disease.

( Dr. Andrew Thamboo, Otolaryngologist, Vancouver, BC) is in good standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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Please contact ( Dr. Andrew Thamboo, Otolaryngologist Vancouver, BC ) to enquire if this health care provider is accepting new patients. The next step in this treatment is actually using a little rice-like particle that we actually put in the opening and leave it in there for an hour, sometimes a week, and it will expand on its own.  Then we pull it out, and the ostium has enlarged, and the sinus is treated. That is actually the latest, greatest direction that we’re going in with this balloon sinuplasty.  If you have any questions, you can speak to your family doctor or to your local sinus specialist.

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    Once you’ve seen a physician for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Sinusitis, it will often go away on its own. However, if complications occur and you develop chronic sinusitis, you may need treatment from a local Otolaryngologist in Vancouver, BC, such as Dr. Andrew Thamboo.
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    There are many health care providers who may be involved in Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Diagnosis and Treatment - from an audiologist to an ear, nose and throat doctor. If you have a hearing impairment, you could see an Otolaryngologist in Vancouver, BC, such as Dr. Andrew Thamboo.

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