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Professor Phil Bird
Otolaryngologist

MB ChB(Otago) FRACS (Otolaryngology)

Email phil.bird@chchorl.co.nz

Phil Bird is an Otolaryngologist with a special interest in otology and neurotology.

Phil is the Otolaryngology convenor for the 5th Year undergraduate programme: Orthopaedics and Advanced Medicine.

Research Interests

  • The delivery of corticosteroids to the inner ear
  • Outcomes research in cochlear implantation
  • Inner ear effects of middle ear procedures

Publications

Patuzzi, R. B., Cook, A. M., Bergin, M. J., & Bird, P. A. (2026). Continuous fast tracking of auditory threshold during middle ear surgery using the auditory steady state response (ASSR). Physiological Measurement, 47(8), 085005. doi: 10.1088/1361-6579/ae9032 Journal - Research Article

Noakes, A., Stevenson, J., Bird, P., Hale, S., Rowlands, S., Kong, L., … Benoiton, L. (2026). Contemporary management of paediatric acute mastoiditis in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 206, 112882. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2026.112882 Journal - Research Article

Park, M., Guillard, R., O'Beirne, G. A., Bird, P. A., & Maslin, M. R. D. (2026). Exploration of sleep spindles from surgically induced unilaterally deaf adult humans with and without tinnitus. Clinical Neurophysiology Practice, 11, 325-358. doi: 10.1016/j.cnp.2026.05.001 Journal - Research Article

Hornibrook, J., Flook, E., Babbage, M., Vraich, G., Bird, P., & Melzer, T. R. (2026). Midline head tap to image the human vestibular cortex on fMRI. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56(2), e70033. doi: 10.1002/snz2.70033 Journal - Research Article

Luna, J. N. M., Goh, T., Jayawant, A. P., Miller, H., & Bird, P. (2025). Giant cell tumour of the temporal bone vs atypical meningioma. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1619), 61-64. doi: 10.26635/6965.6908 Journal - Research Other

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