Declan Costello

Declan Costello is a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon specialising in voice disorders (a laryngologist).  He studied music at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar, and went on to study medicine at Imperial College.  As a singer himself, he has a particular interest in treating voice disorders in performers.   Having worked for ten years in Birmingham as a consultant, he moved to Wexham Park Hospital in Berkshire in 2018.  He has published a number of books and has written many chapters, including the chapter on “Larynx” for the 42nd edition of “Gray’s Anatomy”.  In the middle of 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, he helped to coordinate research on the perceived dangers of singing and aerosols.  This research led to the UK government opening up performing after a prolonged period of enforced silence. 

Declan was appointed President-Elect June 2022