Dr. Prahlad Duggal currently works as a dedicated Ear Nose Throat & Head Neck Surgeon at DuggalENT inside Swift Hospital at Majitha Road, Amritsar, India. He is the Head of ENT & Head Neck Surgery at the Swift Hospital and is a visiting Surgeon at many leading hospitals of the region. After several years of post-residency trainings and attachments, including Surgical Oncology and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery training at Tata Cancer Hospital, Mumbai, started the Head Neck Surgery as a dedicated specialty at Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research in Amritsar as Assistant Professor in Department of ENT & Head Neck Surgery in 2007.
Along with that he established & headed the ENT & Head Neck Surgery department at Amandeep Hospital, Amritsar and remained full time Head there from 2011 to 2016.
During all these years of clinical and academic practice, Dr. Duggal trained in Coblation assisted Bloodless ENT surgery and introduced it in Amritsar. At present he is the most experienced ENT surgeon in the region in Bloodless ENT Surgery.
He is also the only surgeon trained overseas in Sleep and Snoring Surgery in the region having trained from Euro Sleep, Norway and is a pioneer in the field in this region.
During training in otolaryngology (Ear Nose & Throat Surgery) & Head Neck Surgery, Dr. Duggal identified a growing need to provide more specialised care for those people with ENT, Head Neck, Skull base conditions and those wanting facial aesthetic correction. Much of the medical field had subspecialised allowing some doctors to provide their patients with a greater knowledge and care in particular fields that was not offered by standard training alone. Few doctors, however, had travelled abroad to gain a greater knowledge of advanced procedure in Sleep and Snoring Surgery.
With this aim in mind to provide specialized and dedicated sub-specialty wise care to the patients, Dr. Duggal started DuggalENT inside Swift Hospital on the busy Majitha Road in Amritsar.
He has authored over 25 publications and is working as reviewer for many reputed journals. He is also an editorial board member of World Journal of Otolaryngology. He is a faculty in many national and international conferences and has presented more that 30 papers in various conferences. Few of his publications are highly citied in the literature. He is also a Life member of various professional societies in the field of ENT & Head Neck Surgery.
In 2017, he headed the Scientific Committee for National Conference of All India Rhinology Scoiety and also has the distinction of organizing the first dedicated Head Neck Surgery conference and first live surgical workshop on sleep surgery at Amritsar