Professor Bhik Kotecha was born in Kenya and moved to England in 1972. He grew up in Stanmore and attended Copland High School in Wembley, Middlesex. Following his ambition to study medicine, he attended the University of Wales, College of Medicine in Cardiff and qualified in 1984.
He began his surgical career as a surgical house officer with a professorial unit in Cardiff and has many positions including Registrar in Otolaryngology at Hope Hospital / Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, University of Manchester School of Medicine and Senior Registrar in ENT at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London.
