Mr Taran Tatla received First Class BSc Honours (Intercalated) in Anatomy (1994) and gained MBBS at University College London (1996). In postgraduate years, he made rapid progress through highly competitive and comprehensive basic and higher surgical training programmes, incorporating posts at many of the renowned London teaching hospitals with FRCS awarded in 2006 from the Royal College of Surgeons in England.

He commenced his substantial NHS consultant post in 2008 at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, specialising in ENT with Head and Neck (H&N) sub-interest. In 2018 he completed his PhD collaborating with the Hamlyn Centre for Robotics and Department for Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London, as well as the Applied Optics Group, University of Kent.

Mr Tatla manages a wide variety of adult and paediatric patients, contributing as a core member to the H&N Cancer and Thyroid Cancer MDTs (Chair for the latter), providing secondary and tertiary care specialist services for NW London. Clinical interests include minimally invasive endoscopic surgery and LASER applications for diagnostics and therapies, swallow and tracheostomy care, as well as evolving novel integrated care pathways for multi-disciplinary delivery of tele-medicine, tele-training and technology enhanced learning.