Biography

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Professor Dato' Dr. Prepageran Narayanan is Senior Professor and Consultant in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. As a world-renowned skull base surgeon, he has performed over 800 complex cases across more than 15 countries and holds visiting professorships at 11 international universities.

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Professor Narayanan was President of the 9th World Congress of Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery from 2020 to 2024, President of the Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and Related Sciences (APSCI) from 2023 to 2025, and Founding President of the ASEAN Rhinology Society in 2022. His accolades include the Cochlear Implant Surgeon of Excellence Award from Myanmar in 2017 and the Excellence Professor Award 2024 from the University of Malaya.

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Professor Narayanan has conducted over 250 live surgical workshops in more than 45 countries, from the USA and UK to Japan and South Africa. Since 2005, he has led the 360° Skull Base Workshop at University Malaya, training over 600 surgeons, a program now expanded to Hungary, Taiwan, Pakistan, and South Africa. He is a co-author of the Atlas of 360° Skull Base Surgery, a comprehensive 1,000-page reference published in 2022. The atlas was developed in collaboration with experts from Harvard, Oxford, and Ohio University. He has also published 20 books, 3 lateral skull base surgery e-books, 19 surgical manuals, 63 book chapters, and 315 peer-reviewed papers. His YouTube channel, “ENT Skullbase UMMC”, reaches over 8000 subscribers worldwide.

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Professor Narayanan has supervised 6 PhD candidates, 62 postgraduate students, and 90 clinical Fellows from Malaysia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.​