Jonathan Bernstein is an Ear, Nose & Throat Consultant / Head and Neck Surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital. He specialises in head and neck surgical oncology, benign and malignant lumps in the neck, thyroid cancers, salivary gland conditions, and oral and laryngeal malignancies. He is currently Lead for the Head & Neck MDT at Imperial.?

From London originally, Jonathan qualified with MB ChB from the University of Bristol in 2002. His interest in the specialty began as a medical student, when he spent two months at the House Ear Institute, Los Angeles. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2010 and completed specialist training in north-west England in 2013. He holds the Diploma in Otolaryngology and was awarded MD by the University of Manchester for his doctoral research in translational radiobiology in head and neck cancers.

Jonathan spent three years in Toronto at University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, training in one of North America's busiest head and neck programmes. The high-volume environment meant extensive experience in thyroid and parathyroid surgery, complex upper aerodigestive tract surgical oncology, and microvascular reconstruction - the kind of surgical training that's difficult to replicate elsewhere. It was an intensive period that helped shape his approach to complex head and neck cases.

He has published and presented internationally on biomarkers, DCE-MRI, virtual surgical navigation, and clinical outcomes, and has contributed Cochrane and BMJ Clinical Evidence reviews on Bell's palsy. He serves on the question writing group for the FRCS. He co-edited the Head and Neck Surgery section of Scott Brown's Otorhinolaryngology 9th Edition, a major textbook in the specialty.

Jonathan's wife is an interventional radiologist. Together they summited Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro, and now with two children the family enjoys music and hiking in the UK and Alps.