Prof. Dr. Husne Qumer Osmany ENT · Dhaka Medical College
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The academic record

Professor of Otolaryngology at Dhaka Medical College, and Programme Director of the Cochlear Implant Programme at its teaching hospital.

Academic appointments

Posts held

  1. 2024–present

    Professor, Department of Otolaryngology

    Dhaka Medical College: the first woman appointed to an ENT professorship in Bangladesh’s government sector

  2. 2025–present

    Programme Director, Cochlear Implant Programme

    Dhaka Medical College Hospital

  3. 2017–2024

    Associate Professor, Otolaryngology

    Dhaka Medical College

  4. 2013–2017

    Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology

    Dhaka Medical College

  5. 2010–2013

    Lecturer, Department of Anatomy

    Dhaka Medical College, her first academic post

Programme direction

The Cochlear Implant Programme

A cochlear implant does not amplify sound. It replaces the failed part of the inner ear, turning sound into electrical signals the hearing nerve can read.

The surgery is the short part. What decides the outcome is everything around it: finding the children early enough, testing them properly, selecting the ones an implant will actually help, switching the device on, and then months of mapping and speech therapy with the family. Running that chain at a public teaching hospital is the work Professor Osmany directs at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

She took on the role in 2025, by government appointment, a year after Bangladesh’s government medical colleges got their first female professor of the subject. Wednesdays now belong to the cochlear implant clinic at Dhaka Medical College, the other fixed point in a week built around her head and neck cancer practice.

Teaching

Training the next generation

Undergraduate

Head and neck lectures to fourth-year MBBS students, alongside ward teaching for fourth- and fifth-years at Dhaka Medical College.

Postgraduate

Thesis adviser to eight FCPS and MS trainees in otolaryngology.

Research

Interests

Her published work spans otology, head and neck oncology and infectious disease, but the throughline is hearing: noise-induced hearing loss, cochlear implantation, and the surgery of head and neck cancer, alongside sleep apnoea. That work on noise and hearing has fed directly into public policy. She has advised the government on the laws governing noise pollution in Dhaka.

Bibliography

Selected publications

Seven papers published between 2017 and 2022, spanning otology, head and neck oncology and infectious disease.

  1. 2022

    Tracheostomy in Non-malignant Disorders

    Liton MA, Islam R, Rifat MA, Osmany HQ, Ghosh UC, Fakir MAY. Bangladesh Journal of Otorhinolaryngology; 28(2): 157–164.

  2. 2022

    Effect of Anterior Nasal Packing on Middle Ear Pressure

    Jonaed FE, Chowdhury MA, Hossen MI, Kazi M, Rumi SNF, Osmany HQ. Bangladesh Journal of Otorhinolaryngology; 28(2): 135–140.

  3. 2021

    Post COVID Mucormycosis Prevention With Oro-Nasal Application of Povidone Iodine (PVP-I)

    Arefin MK, Khan M, Rumi SNF, Islam MN, Talukder DC, Osmani HQ, et al. Journal of Dhaka Medical College; 30(2): 176–179.

  4. 2020

    COVID-19 Pandemic and Thyroid Cancer Treatment in Perspective of Bangladesh

    Rifat MA, Arefin MK, Fakir AY, Rumi SNF, Osmany HQ, et al. Journal of Dhaka Medical College; 29(2): 178–181.

  5. 2020

    Pattern of Lymph Node Metastasis in Oral Cancer

    Rifat MA, Arefin MK, Fakir AY, Rumi SNF, Osmany HQ, et al. Journal of Dhaka Medical College; 29(1): 41–46.

  6. 2019

    Effect of Diabetes Mellitus on Hearing

    Ghosh UC, Fakir MAY, Osmany HQ, Lodh D, Islam MZ, Islam MN. Bangladesh Journal of Otorhinolaryngology; 25(2): 116–124.

  7. 2017

    Parathyroid Adenoma: Presented with Generalized Bone Pain and Multiple Pathological Fractures in a 29-year-old Woman (A Case Report)

    Osmany HQ, Begum A, Fakir MAY, Liton MA, Chowdhury FI. Journal of Dhaka Medical College; 26(1): 83–85.

Service

Societies

  • Otolaryngology Society (Member)
  • Head Neck Society (Member)
  • Otology Society, Bangladesh (Member)

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