Dr Timothy Matthews

Otology, endoscopic ear surgery and hearing implants. BSc, MBBS (Hons), FRACS (ORL-HNS)

Dr Timothy Matthews is an otologist and neuro-otologist with a particular interest in endoscopic ear surgery and hearing implantation. He completed a Bachelor of Science and his medical degree with honours at the University of Sydney, trained in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at St Vincent’s, Canberra and Royal Darwin Hospitals, and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2017. He then undertook a clinical fellowship in otology and neurotology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and trained in totally endoscopic ear surgery with Professor Daniele Marchioni in Verona, Italy.

He treats ear and hearing conditions at all ages, including chronic ear disease and cholesteatoma, otosclerosis, cochlear and other implantable hearing devices, and lateral skull base tumours such as vestibular schwannoma. He is a Visiting Medical Officer at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, operates at St Vincent’s Private, Prince of Wales Private and St George Private Hospitals, and is a Senior Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW‘s St Vincent’s Clinical School.

Dr Matthews convenes the temporal bone and audiology courses at St Vincent’s, reviews for Otology & Neurotology and the ANZ Journal of Surgery, and is a member of the International Working Group on Endoscopic Ear Surgery and the Australian and New Zealand Skull Base Society.