Rate My Professor Patrick Dawes

Associate Professor Patrick Dawes is affiliated with the Department of Surgical Sciences in the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago. He holds the position of Associate Professor and serves as Head of the Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery section in the Department of Surgery and Critical Care (Dunedin). His qualifications include MB BS (Lond), FRCS (Edin), and FRCS (Lond). He teaches undergraduate modules on ear, nose, and throat topics. His clinical expertise covers ear surgery for otosclerosis and children's cases, chronic sinusitis, and dacryocystorhinostomy. In 2022, he retired from clinical private practice, continuing his commitments at Dunedin Hospital and the university.

Dawes' research specializations include tonsil and adenoid disease and deafness, effects of tonsil and adenoid disease on children's sleep, hearing outcomes following ear surgery, and the parapharyngeal compartment. Additional interests encompass sleep disordered breathing, adenotonsillectomy outcomes, hearing impairment, ankyloglossia complications, occupational noise-induced hearing loss, tonsillectomy pain management, vestibular schwannoma, sinonasal lymphoma, and biofilms in otorhinolaryngological disease. With 102 publications and 2,376 citations, his contributions have shaped knowledge on sleep-disordered breathing's impact on academic performance and pediatric ENT outcomes. Key publications are: "Sleep Disordered Breathing and Academic Performance: A Meta-analysis" (Pediatrics, 2015); "Pulse transit time and assessment of childhood sleep disordered breathing" (Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, 2012); "Cervical fascia: A terminological pain in the neck" (ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2012); "Epidemiology of Vision and Hearing Impairment in Older Community Dwelling Adults in New Zealand" (Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2025); "Complications following frenotomy for ankyloglossia: A 24-month prospective New Zealand Paediatric Surveillance Unit study" (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2019); "Anatomical variations of the paranasal sinuses in Polynesian and New Zealand European computerized tomography scans" (Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 2008); and multiple papers on chorda tympani clinical anatomy and iatrogenic injury (Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 2011–2012).