Dr Sean Flanagan, ENT surgeon, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney: otology, neurotology, cochlear implants and skull base surgery

Dr Sean Flanagan

Otology, neurotology, cochlear implants and skull base surgery. MBBS (Hons), FRACS (OHNS)

Dr Sean Flanagan is an ENT surgeon at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, subspecialising in otology, neurotology and skull base surgery. He graduated with honours in medicine from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. He completed fellowships in neuro-otology and skull base surgery with Professor Paul Fagan at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, and in neuro-otology, skull base surgery and advanced otology with Professor Mario Sanna at the Gruppo Otologico, Piacenza, Italy. He treats adults and children with ear disease, hearing loss, balance and facial nerve disorders, with particular interests in cochlear implantation and implantable hearing devices, vestibular schwannoma and skull base tumours, cholesteatoma, otosclerosis and Ménière’s disease. He is a Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW, trains ENT registrars and visiting fellows, and coordinates clinical research into vestibular schwannomas and outcomes in hearing loss and cochlear implantation.

At St Vincent’s

Public clinics through St Vincent’s Hospital ENT outpatients; referrals through the St Vincent’s Hospital ENT page.

Private rooms

Sydney ENT Clinic, 67 Burton Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010; Suite 16, 20–24 Gibbs Street, Miranda NSW 2228

Tel +61 2 9380 5900 · reception@sydneyentclinic.com

Links

Selected publications

  1. Pollaers K, Matthews T, Flanagan S et al. Growth Patterns of Small Intracanalicular Vestibular Schwannomas. Otol Neurotol 2026;47(7):902-906. doi
  2. Ajmera A, John N, Morey A et al. Morphological studies of labyrinthine tissue in patients affected with Meniere’s disease and vestibular schwannoma following labyrinthectomy. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2025;282(6):2911-2920. doi
  3. Kwok BYC, Young AS, Kong JHK et al. Post Cochlear Implantation Vertigo: Ictal Nystagmus and Audiovestibular Test Characteristics. Otol Neurotol 2024;45(1):65-74. doi
  4. Pogson JM, Taylor RL, Bradshaw AP et al. The human vestibulo-ocular reflex and compensatory saccades in schwannoma patients before and after vestibular nerve section. Clin Neurophysiol 2022;138:197-213. doi
  5. Hannigan IP, Rosengren SM, Young AS et al. A Portrait of Menière’s Disease Using Contemporary Hearing and Balance Tests. Otol Neurotol 2022;43(4):e489-e496. doi
  6. Mukherjee P, Cheng K, Flanagan S et al. Utility of 3D printed temporal bones in pre-surgical planning for complex BoneBridge cases. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2017;274(8):3021-3028. doi
  7. Jufas N, Flanagan S, Biggs N et al. Quality of Life in Vestibular Schwannoma Patients Managed by Surgical or Conservative Approaches. Otol Neurotol 2015;36(7):1245-54. doi
  8. Taylor RL, Kong J, Flanagan S et al. Prevalence of vestibular dysfunction in patients with vestibular schwannoma using video head-impulses and vestibular-evoked potentials. J Neurol 2015;262(5):1228-37. doi
  9. Piccirillo E, Wiet MR, Flanagan S et al. Cystic vestibular schwannoma: classification, management, and facial nerve outcomes. Otol Neurotol 2009;30(6):826-34. doi
  10. Flanagan S, Mukherjee P, Tonkin J. Outcomes in the use of intra-tympanic gentamicin in the treatment of Ménière’s disease. J Laryngol Otol 2006;120(2):98-102. doi

Full publication list: PubMed

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