Mr. Tony McGilligan is a Senior ENT Consultant in Brighton and Haywards Heath, whose current practice is centred around minimally invasive endoscopic collaborative surgery, with both eye surgeons and neurosurgeons, in decompressing the orbit and removal of skull base brain tumours.

Mr. McGilligan trained at St Mary's Hospital, London (now Imperial) and completed his general surgery FRCS whilst undertaking postgraduate ENT training in North Thames (St Mary's Charing Cross, Bart's Royal National Throat Nose and Ear, Great Ormond St, Royal Marsden). He also spent a year at MIT, conducting Laser Research which pioneered methods of an early cancer diagnosis; work which was published in Nature, as well as other medical journals.

Outside his clinical work, Mr. McGilligan is committed to academic rigour in his roles as Lead Lecturer in Undergraduate ENT at BSMS. He is an examiner for BM BS finals, for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for MRCS and the European Board of ENT in Vienna. He is regularly invited to lecture at National and International meetings for ENT and more recently on the History of Art at the Royal Society of Medicine with further lectures on History and English Literature.

• Adenoidectomy
• Antral washout
• Deviated septum (Septoplasty)
• Diagnostic endoscopy
• Head and neck surgery
• Polypectomy
• Head and neck surgery
• Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS)
• Endoscopic dacrocystorhinostomy DCR with Mr Saul Rajak Consultant Ophthalmologist
• Endoscopic orbital decompression with Mr Saul Rajak Consultant Ophthalmologist
• Endoscopic optic nerve decompression with Mr Saul Rajak Consultant Ophthalmologist
• Submandibular gland removal
• Middle ear surgery
• Balloon Sinuplasty
• Grommet insertion
• Excision of skin lesion
• Tonsillectomy
• Adult audiology hearing aid provision
• Video Consultation

• General, adult and paediatric ENT
• Endoscopic management of complex nasal and sinus disease
• Ear infections
• Glue ear and hearing loss
• Nose bleeds
• Tonsillitis
• Sleep apnoea
• Neck lumps
• Allergy
• Hearing Loss
• Tinnitus
• Dizziness
• Ear infections and perforations
• Nasal obstruction and allergy problems
• Facial pain
• Sinusitis
• Nosebleeds
• Catarrh
• Throat and neck lumps and pain
• Voice change including hoarseness
• Deafness
• Swallowing disorder (dysphagia)
• Allergic rhinitis (hayfever)