Mr Naveen Cavale is an accredited NHS Plastic surgeon at King's College Hospital and Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals, London with a busy Private Practice at Real Plastic Surgery in central London. Specialising in face-lifts, rhinoplasty, and breast surgery, Mr Cavale has a great passion for his work, and always puts the needs of his patients first. Always putting his patients at ease, he will never 'sell' surgery. He also favours natural-looking results which he believes last longer and are the least likely to cause problems further down-the-line.

Mr Cavale qualified in 1995 from University College London and went on to gain several post-graduate qualifications, including a master's in surgical science and speciality training in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He also gained membership with the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons, and the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, of which he is also the national secretary. He was the previous clinical director at King's College Hospital (2017-2021) and the director of surgery at the Cadogan Clinic London (2019-2021).

Mr Cavale is internationally renowned for his excellent practice and has travelled across the world to where he feels his reconstructive surgical skills were heavily required. In addition to this, he has also shared his knowledge and techniques to aid in the training of the next generation of plastic and reconstructive surgeons.

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Dr Vassiliki Bravis is a Consultant in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Internal Medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. She has served as Head of Specialty for Diabetes at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and is the Clinical Lead for Diabetic Foot Disease. She is also North West London Regional Lead for the implementations of TEAMeD-5, which aims to improve the outcomes of people with thyroid eye disease.

Dr Vassiliki Bravis qualified as a doctor from the universities of Cambridge and Imperial College London and completed her training and translational research at Hammersmith, Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospitals. In her current role, Dr Bravis practises as a full-time NHS Consultant at St Mary's Hospital and carries out translational research. She holds a level 4 Local CEA award at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Her areas of expertise include Diabetes (Type 2, secondary, steroid-induced), cholesterol disorders, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular risk reduction, diabetic foot disease (neuropathic ulcers) and Charcot arthropathy, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), disorders of the pituitary and adrenals, thyroid (Hashimoto, Grave's disease) and parathyroid diseases, reproductive disorders, menopause.

Dr Bravis sees adult patients only.

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr Zameer Shah, specialises in hip and knee surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in London, where he carries out routine hip and knee surgery and takes on complex referrals from across the country. He also treats a wide range of conditions including sports injuries, arthritis, and trauma.

Mr Shah gained his medical qualification in 1997 from Kings College London before training in a number of different surgical areas in Cambridge, Oxford, and London. He later spent time as a research fellow at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital where he studied the use of stem cells. Mr Shah was chosen as an International Fellow at the renowned Insall Scott Kelly Institute and at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Upon his return to the UK, he went on to complete a second Fellowship at Guy's Hospital.

Mr Shah has a passion for research and education. He is currently a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Kings College London and is also involved in national trials and programs to further medical knowledge.

In his time outside of the hospital, Mr Shah enjoys football, cricket, tennis, badminton, and mountaineering. He also enjoys travelling, reading history, and learning to play the piano.

Dr Nida Chammas is a highly-regarded Consultant Physician specialising in the management of endocrine disorders and acute and general medicine. She has gained her extensive experience in well known hospitals such as Hammersmith, UCLH and King's College Hospital. Additionally, she underwent additional training in the field of reproductive endocrinology at UCLH.

Dr Chammas is heavily involved in research, having worked as a researcher in the Diabetic Foot Clinic at King's, when she published several papers that were presented internationally. She has successfully applied for CLAHRC funding to further research into diabetic foot disease with colleagues and collaborators. Dr Chammas also serves as an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer for Imperial College.

Professor Melvin Lobo is a senior Consultant Cardiovascular Physician based in the Bart's Heart Centre and the William Harvey Research Institute. He has a specialist interest in blood pressure disorders of all types, autonomic control of the circulation and also resistant hypertension and device-based therapies thereof. He is an accredited Clinical Hypertension Specialist of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and British Hypertension Society.

Professor Lobo is Director of the Bart's Blood Pressure Clinic which is a Hypertension Centre of Excellence and receives referrals of patients with complex circulatory disorders on a national/international basis and has contributed to several landmark studies in hypertension, particularly in the field of novel device therapy of hypertension. His research work has been featured on television and in the national press on numerous occasions.

In addition to hypertension, he is also an acknowledged expert in the management of low blood pressure (hypotension) and BP variability disorders and PoTS (postural tachycardia syndrome) and sees patients on a national basis with these issues in the Barts BP Clinic and on an international basis in his private practice. He has recently co-written and co-edited the Textbook of PoTS which was published in October 2020. He has the largest cohort of medication intolerant patients nationally and has evolved, published and lectured on specialised strategies with liquid and patch formulations of antihypertensives to get around intolerances to tablets.

He is recognised globally as a key opinion leader in his field and this is reflected in numerous roles in multicentre clinical trials, invited lectures at major conferences and also as an editor/reviewer of numerous journals including JACC and Lancet. More recently he has authored national and co-authored international guidelines for device therapy of hypertension which were published in the prestigious European Heart Journal.

Professor Lobo organises and co-chairs the UK Annual Symposia on Device Therapy of Hypertension with a distinguished panel of international authorities in hypertension medicine. He is a specialist adviser to NICE and the European Society of Hypertension on interventional therapies in hypertension and a member of the Council on Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology.

Mr Dimitri Yanni studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School . Subsequently he trained in Orthopaedics, including trauma, hand, elbow and shoulder surgery on the South East Thames training programme through Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals as well as the peripheral hospitals in the south east where he served both as a registrar and senior registrar.

Mr Yanni did his fellowships at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary Pulvertaft Hand Unit and in a National Orthopaedic Hospital at Cappagh Dublin. He is a founding member of The British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS) as well as the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (EWAS).

During his career, Mr Yanni gained distinctions which include "Surgeon in Training Medal" awarded by the RCS Edinburgh, The BOTATravelling Fellowship and the Rayne Institute Orthopaedic Prize, which he was awarded twice. He was appointed as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Bromley Group Hospitals in 1994.

Mr Yanni provides a comprehensive service in shoulder, elbow and hand surgery which includes joint replacements and a strong focus on arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery.

Mr Jonathan Walczak was born in London and trained at Guys Hospital Medical School from 1981 through to 1987. His post-graduate training included a specialist fellowship in Hip surgery, which took place in 1998.

Later in his career, he became, and remains, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA). Not only this, he has held the post of consultant trauma & orthopaedic surgeon at Bromley NHS Trust since 1999 and is now employed by Kings College NHS trust

His private practices are located at the BMI Sloane, BMI Chelsfield Park, BMI Shirley Oaks, BMI Blackheath, Sevenoaks Medical centre and KIMS in Maidstone. Mr Walczak is more very happy to see both self-funded, insured and NJS Choose and book and is open to readily providing feedback care into the NHS when applicable.

He is recognised by all health insurance companies and has a particular interest in hip and knee replacement and revision replacement, sports medicine including injuries to hips, keyhole knee surgery, knee ligament reconstruction (including Anterior Cruciate ligaments) and calf and foot problems.

Owing to his personal interests as a keen runner and cyclist, Mr Walczak is conscious of the needs of an athlete and he remains committed to allowing people of all abilities to return to sports and physical activity if at all possible.

By all accounts, his patient-focused approach to medical care remains a constituent part of what makes his services so sought after. His philosophy revolves around his desire to do the utmost in making an accurate diagnosis and instigate treatment. He is aware that he may not be able to definitively deal with a given problem, but if he cannot organise appropriate care, he has a network of colleagues in other specialities who will be able to assist.

Mr Walcak: "I pride myself that I and my team are always able to provide a rapid and efficient response to any concern or complication. I feel most strongly that as a Surgeon my responsibility to the patients under my care extends to any problems experienced following discharge, and I feel that I and my team, rather than your General Practitioner, should be on hand to deal with any concerns."

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Mr Tamer El-Husseiny is a consultant urological surgeon at Charing Cross and St Mary's hospitals, and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. In addition to general urology he sub-specialises in the diagnosis and management of kidney stones and Benign prostatic disorders. He is an expert in endourological surgery (minimally invasive surgery) such as ureteroscopy and laser stone fragmentation, PCNL (keyhole surgery for kidney stones), HoLEP (Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate), Urolift, Rezum water vapour therapy and the endourological management of upper tract urothelial cancers. He treats other upper tract abnormalities, including strictures and extrinsic obstruction. He also has special expertise in the use of different types of urological stents.

Mr El-Husseiny graduated from medical school with honours, he has then completed his basic surgical and urological training and was appointed as an assistant lecturer in urology. He underwent his higher specialist urological training on both the London and West Midlands urology training schemes. In addition, he has also completed the prestigious two-year subspecialty endourology fellowship (Awarded by the Endourological Society, USA) at St Bartholomew's Hospital, specialising in the management of complex stone disease.

He has completed a MSc and MD degrees in urology and is very passionate about research and academic urology. He has led on and completed numerous research projects and has extensively published in peer reviewed journals, authored book chapters and presented in international, national and regional conferences and meetings. He maintains a strong teaching interest and he has taught on numerous courses and workshops. He is also a peer reviewer for numerous international journals.

Publications:

Percutaneous Endourologic Procedures in High-Risk Patients in the Lateral Decubitus Position under Regional Anaesthesia. J Endourol. 2009 Oct; 23 (10): 1603-6.

The role of open stone surgery. A J Urol, May 2012; 10, 284–288.

The new Invisio® DUR-D "chip-on-the-tip" digital Flexible Ureterorenoscopes – evaluation of changes in physical properties over time. Therapy (2010) 7(4), 423–427.

Erectile Dysfunction; a review on current management. GPonline. December 2013. http://www.gponline.com/erectile-dysfunction-clinical-review/mens-health/erectile-dysfunction-premature ejaculation/article/1223911

Transurethral Ethanol Ablation of the Prostate (TEAP) for symptomatic Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH): long term follow up. T. El-Husseiny, N. Buchholz. J Endourol 2011 Mar; 25 (3): 477-80.

What is better in percutaneous nephrolithotomy – Prone or supine? A systematic review. A J Urol, 14, Issue 2, June 2016, Pages 101–107

Long-term follow-up of recurrent stone formers – who, how long and how often? BJU Int. 2010 Jan; 105(1): 1-2. Epub 2009 Nov 13.

A comparative study of the requirement of introducer sheaths for ureteric access between an old generation fibre-optic flexible ureteroscope and a new "chip on the tip" digital flexible ureteroscope. The Journal of Urology, Volume 183, Issue 4, Supplement, April 2010, Page e497.

The Current Role of Memokath 051 Thermo-Expandable Metal Stent in Management of Benign and Malignant Ureteric
Strictures. Med Surg Urol (2012) S4:003. Doi: 10.4172/2168-9857.S4- 003

A novel wire stent (Zebrastent) for ureteric stenting in stone patients. Expert Rev Med Devices. 2008 Sep; 5 (5): 545-7.

Pain in extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. Urol Res. 2009 Apr; 37 (2): 51-3.

Ureteric guide wire damage by Holmium: YAG laser: preliminary results. Urol Res. 2009 Feb; 37(1): 7-10.

Treating bladder-outflow obstruction with thermo-expandable prostate metal stents. Expert Rev Med Devices. 2009 Jul; 6 (4): 357-363.

Assessing and developing percutaneous renal access skills of trainees using the state of the art PERC MENTOR™ simulation trainer. European Urology Supplements, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 36-37.

‘Putting lead in your pencil': self-insertion of an unusual urethral foreign body for sexual gratification. J R Soc Med Sh Rep 2010; 1: 18. DOI 10.1258/ shorts.2010.010014.

Characterising Stent Symptoms Associated with a Segmental Thermo-Expandable Metallic Stent Using a Validated Stent Symptoms Questionnaire. Cur Urol 2011; 5: 72–78.

'An interventional urology list' - a novel concept for UK urological services. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2010 Oct 25.

Improving Patient Positioning to Reduce Complications in Prone Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy. J Endourol. May 2009: 831-832.

A novel long-term thermo-expandable ureteric metal stent: Memokath 051TM. Papatsoris AG, Masood J, El-Husseiny T, Ndirika S, Junaid I, Buchholz N: In: BJU International website. Fitzpatrick JM, Drake M, Webber R (eds): Atlas of Surgical Devices, 2008.

Case based investigation: Urodynamics. Maan Z, Dickens N, El-Husseiny T, Moraitis K, Masood J, Junaid I, Buchholz N: Foundation Years Journal. June 2009 Volume 3, Issue 5: Urology.

Emergency inpatient extra-corporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) a safe and effective alternative. European Urology Supplements, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2010.

Endovascular covered stenting for the management of post-percutaneous nephrolithotomy renal pseudo pseudoaneurysm: a case report. J Med Case Reports. 2010 Sep 23; 4 (1):316.

Simultaneous antegrade/retrograde upper urinary tract access: Bart's modified lateral position for complex upper tract endourologic pathologic features. Urology. 2012 Feb; 79(2): 287-92. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.08.023.

Insertion of a Ureteric Memokath Stent through a Prostatic Memokath Stent Using Extracorporeal Needles Placed on the Skin to Mark and Measure the Ureteric Stricture in a Patient with Prostate Cancer. Curr Urol 2008; 2:200-203.

Should urologists in the UK perform their own nephrostomies and renal access for endourological procedures - what does the future hold? : BJU Int. 2009 Sep; 104(6): 755-7.

Comparison of Stent-Related Symptoms between Conventional Double-J Stents and a New-Generation Thermoexpandable Segmental Metallic Stent: A Validated-Questionnaire-Based Study. J Endourol. April 2010: 589-593.

A technique to flush out renal stone fragments during percutaneous nephrolithotomy. J Endourol. 2009 Jan; 23(1): 5-6.

Simultaneous anterograde and retrograde endourologic access: "the Barts technique". J Endourol. 2008 Dec; 22(12)

Endourological management of an iatrogenic ureteric avulsion using a thermoexpandable nickel-titanium alloy stent (Memokath 051). J Endourol Case Reports. May 2017, 3(1): 57-60.

Clinical, fiscal and environmental benefits of a specialist‐led virtual ureteric colic clinic: a prospective study. BJU Int 2019.

Metallic Ureteric Stents in Malignant Ureteric Obstruction: a Systematic Review. Urology. 2018 Feb 2. pii: S0090-4295(18)30064-5.

Single-Center Experience with Three Metallic Ureteral Stents (Allium® URS, Memokath™-051, and Resonance®) for Chronic Ureteral Obstruction. J Endourol. 2021 Dec;35(12):1829-1837. doi: 10.1089/end.2021.0208. PMID: 34074131.

Engagement of other Emergency Services in the management of Penile Ring Entrapment. Urology. 2021 Feb 20;S0090-4295(21)00191-6. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2021.02.015

Current process and outcomes of the surgical management of LUTS due to benign prostatic enlargement: how consistent are we? – results from the multi-institutional audit of surgical management of BPE (AuSuM BPE) in the United Kingdom. Scottish Medical Journal. January 2021. doi:10.1177/0036933020977295">10.1177/0036933020977295.

Safety and adverse events of urgent elective surgery during COVID-19 within three UK hospitals. Br J Surg, 2020, 00, 1–2 DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znaa058.

HAS THE SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC IMPROVED THE MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE URETERIC COLIC? J Endolum Endourol Vol 3(4):e15-e24; October 31, 2020.

Understanding Virtual Urology Clinics: A Systematic Review.">Understanding Virtual Urology Clinics: A Systematic Review. BJU Int. 2020, May 28. doi: 10.1111/bju.15125.

Book Chapters:

Ureteric stents; Physiology of stent flow. Tamer El-Husseiny & Martin Knight. In: N P Buchholz et al (Eds), Handbook of Urinary Stents: Basic Science and Clinical Applications. ISBN-10: 1907816658. ISBN-13: 978-1907816659 JP Medical Ltd, London, 2016

Advanced Training of a Practicing Urologist in Stone Disease Management. In: Urolithiasis; basic science and clinical practice. T El-Husseiny and N Buchholz. In: Hans-Goran Tiselius, David M. Albala, Zhangqun Ye et al. (ends). Urolithiasis, 1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4387-1_102, © Springer-Verlag London 2013

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy: Renal Stones. El-Husseiny T, Papatsoris A, Masood J, Buchholz N. In: N.P. Rao et al.
(eds.), Urinary Tract Stone Disease, 455-467. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-362-0_39, © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011.

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy in Peyronie's Disease. El-Husseiny T, Papatsoris A, Masood J, Buchholz N: In: Loske AM (ed): New Trends in Shock Wave Applications to Medicine and Biotechnology. Research Signpost Publishers, 2009.

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy: Its application in orthopaedics. El-Husseiny T, Papatsoris A, Masood J, Buchholz N: In: Loske AM (ed): New Trends in Shock Wave Applications to Medicine and Biotechnology. Research Signpost Publishers, 2009.

Dr Ed Abrahamson is a highly experienced general paediatrician in London, with 33 years of flying hours.

He has held a specialist interest in emergency medicine throughout his career and set up the Paediatric Emergency Department at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 1995, where he was the Head of the department for two decades and worked there until June 2020.

Dr Ed has a large private practice and treats the full range of general paediatric conditions; he is particularly passionate about ensuring children receive vaccinations and avoiding unnecessary use of medication, such as antibiotics for minor viral infection. He has a genuinely holistic view of medicine, looking at the well being of the parents and other siblings in factors involving his patient's health. He actively involves parents in all decision making.

Aside from two educational medical books he has authored, he was a contributing author to the book, GROW by Frankie Bridge, published 2021 by Octopus Publishers, outlining advice and guidance for parents.

His clinics are at BUPA Cromwell Hospital, Monday to Thursday

Dr Abrahamson has received recognition for his work including a Bronze Clinical Excellence Award and being named in the top 100 children's doctors in Britain by The Times in 2012.

He was Vice President of the Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust 2019-2022 before being appointed Life Vice-President. He is also an active supporter and fund-raiser for the surf therapy charity, the Wave Project. He lives in Cornwall half with his husband and the boys (2 Jack Russells). 

Mr Ahsan Sheeraz is a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, with a subspecialty interest in hip & knee Surgery.

Mr Sheeraz qualified from National University Of Science & Technology in 2003 with a Gold & Silver medal. He undertook his foundation and core training in one of the most reputable institutes in the country, working at Exeter, Newcastle upon Tyne and London. His higher specialist training in Orthopaedics was on the prestigious Imperial Rotation in London (North West Thames deanery). After completing higher training, he went on to complete his Hip & Knee arthroplasty fellowship training at the internationally renowned Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, as well as at West Hertfordshire NHS trust and Royal Berkshire NHS trust in 2017. In his fellowships, he was exposed to complex hip and knee problems, ground-breaking cartilage regeneration procedures, stem cell injections, rotational profile problems and Femoroacetabular impingement.

He is one of those unique Orthopaedic Surgeons who has trained under some of the biggest names in Orthopaedics, which include Miss Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, Mr Graham Gie, Mr Andrew Timperley & Mr Craig Gerrand as an SHO, and under Mr Bob Marston, Mr Chin Gupte, Mr Angus Lewis, Mr Michael Pearse and Mr Will Bartlett as a Registrar, and under Mr Richard Carrington, Proff Skinner, Mr Tim Waters and Mr Tony Andrade as a fellow.

He was then appointed as a Locum Consultant at Barts Health NHS trust in London for over 20 months, after which he got his substantive appointment in Milton Keynes University Hospital at the end of 2019.

Mr Sheeraz is the audit lead in Milton Keynes, and has published widely in international journals on hip, knee and trauma topics, along with 2 book chapters in "ABC of Orthopaedics". Also presenting at national and international meetings, winning multiple awards and prizes.

He also has a passion for teaching under and postgraduate students and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Education from University of Bedfordshire and has taught formally at Kings, Birmingham & Peninsula medical schools. He also organises and teaches on various courses around the country, and is an ATLS instructor, and has been nominated to become an AO instructor.