Bio

About Helen Caulfield

Helen Caulfield (Nee Myatt) graduated from University College Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK in 1987. She showed an early commitment to pursuing a surgical career, obtaining a highly prestigious professorial unit House Officer’s job as her first post at UCLH. She completed training in Neurosurgery at Kings College, London and General Surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, London. Subsequently she developed a broad-based ENT training rotating through St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and the North Thames Sector Hospitals, including the prestigious Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital in London and the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.

She pursued further training as a Specialist Paediatric ENT Surgeon, by spending two years in Sydney Australia, under the guidance of Bruce Benjamin, a world famous Paediatric Laryngologist. She was a Fellow at the Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney during this period. On her return to London in 1999 she took a post up at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and remained there for a 12 month period, prior to obtaining her Consultant’s post.

In 2000 she was appointed as ENT Consultant at the Royal Free Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free Medical School. During the last 15 years she has succeeded in raising the profile of the Paediatric ENT Department at the Royal Free Hospital, by providing Paediatric only clinics and operating lists. Her broad knowledge of neonatal ENT has meant she has been able to provide a service for five neonatal units in the North London sector. She was clinical lead for Paediatric ENT at the Royal Free and the RNTNE Division.

In 2007, she started a neonatal tongue tie clinic at the Royal Free Hospital and subsequently trained midwives to carry the service forward.

In 2012 she moved to UCLH and now runs a Neonatal Tongue-Tie service targeted at mothers struggling to breast feed babies with a tight lingual frenulum. This service is unique to the whole North London sector.

Helen is honorary lecturer at Wolverhampton University and trains midwives to undertake tongue tie division.