TRUSTPLUS - Key Persons
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- Principal Paediatric Audiologist
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- Advanced Specialist Dietitian
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- Consultant Gastroenterologist
Dr Haycock graduated from St Mary's Hospital (Imperial College) in 1999 and completed his specialist training in the North West Thames region in 2010. His specialist interests include colonoscopy and therapeutic endoscopy, and his research interest is on improving the quality of endoscopic training. He completed an MD at St Mark's Hospital in 2010 on quality assurance of endoscopy training.
This included investigating and developing some novel techniques for assessing and evaluating training processes, including the use of advanced virtual reality simulation for colonoscopy. He has peer-reviewed publications arising from this research and has been invited to speak at both national and international meetings on the topic. He completed a teaching degree in 2011 leading to accreditation with the Higher Education Academy. He has been a consultant at St Mark's Hospital since 2011 and is the Training Lead for the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy, a National Training Centre, training over 150 endoscopists annually.
He was the Chair of the Federation of Endoscopy Training Centres from 2013-2016 and is currently part of the steering group for the National Non-Medical Endoscopy Accelerated Training Programme. Dr Haycock lives with his family in Buckinghamshire and enjoys cycling, running, tennis and painting.
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- Consultant
- Consultant Gastroenterologist & Specialist Endoscopist
Dr Adam Humphries is a consultant gastroenterologist and specialist endoscopist at St Mark's Hospital, Harrow, an internationally recognised centre of excellence for intestinal disorders and endoscopy. He is the Clinical Lead for Endoscopy and his specialist interests include luminal gastroenterology, bowel cancer screening endoscopy, diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, video capsule endoscopy and double-balloon enteroscopy. Dr Humphries also leads the small bowel endoscopy service at St Mark's Hospital, a national referral centre and one of only a few sites in the UK that provides double-balloon enteroscopy for the diagnosis and treatment of small bowel diseases.
In 2007 Dr Humphries was awarded a Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Fellowship and subsequently gained a PhD in 2012 from University College London for his research into the biology of gastrointestinal tumours. He has published in prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific journals, presented work at a variety of national and international meetings and published a number of book chapters. Dr Humphries' current academic interests include bowel cancer prevention, evolution of pre-cancerous growths within the gut and the diagnosis and treatment of small bowel diseases.
Dr Humphries qualified from Imperial College Medical School in 2002 and undertook his specialist gastroenterology training within London from 2005-2013. He then completed a fellowship in advanced and small bowel endoscopy at St Mark's Hospital before being appointed to the Consultant staff.
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- Secretary
- Consultant Gastro - Intestinal Pathologist
- Consultant Histopathologist
Dr Adriana Martinez has been a Consultant Gastro-intestinal Pathologist and Dermatopathologist at Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospitals since 2007.
She trained in Medicine at ‘Universidad CES' in Medellin, Colombia and pursued her postgraduate training in the United Kingdom. She gained experience in histopathology at University Hospitals Birmingham, The Royal Surrey County Hospital, King's College Hospital, The Royal Sussex County Hospital, University Hospital Lewisham and St Thomas' Hospital.
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- Consultant Gastroenterologist
Dr Sharif has been my GI Consultant for several years now. He always makes me feel at ease and never tries to rush me. Sandra T
Dr Amar Sharif graduated in 1997, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London with Distinction in Medicine, Surgery and Clinical Pharmacology/Therapeutics and was awarded Dean's Medal in Clinical Medicine, ED Blunt Prize in Clinical Medicine, Willliam Marsden Scholarship and Medal. His early medical training was at the prestigious Academic Department of Medicine, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and North West London NHS Hospitals. As a Specialist Registrar, he trained on the North West Thames rotation, working at St. Mary's, Hammersmith, Chelsea and Westminster and Central Middlesex Hospitals.
In 2007 he was awarded MD research degree at Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus and has published work in genetic and molecular aspects of bile duct cancers.
He currently works as a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Physician at London NorthWest Healthcare Trust and Hepatology Lead and Director of Clinical Studies. He is a committee member BSG Liver Group.
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- Consultant
- Senior Consultant
- Consultant Neurologist
Dr Trip is a Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Northwick Park Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square.
He studied at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and did postgraduate neurological training in London, mainly at the National Hospital, Queen Square. He completed a PhD at the UCL Institute of Neurology which looked at markers of axonal loss and myelination in patients with optic neuritis. He has published widely in leading international peer-reviewed journals.
At Northwick Park, he has general neurology clinics, offers an in-patient neurology consultation service to other clinicians, and provides neurological input to the Regional Hyperactute Rehabilitation Unit.
At Queen Square, he is Co-Chair of the Queen Square MS Centre and runs a large clinic for patients with multiple sclerosis and other related neuroinflammatory disorders but also has a clinic mainly for patients with headache syndromes. He also looks after in-patients with complex neurological problems at Queen Square.
Dr Trip is the senior consultant neurologist at Northwick Park Hospital, having been appointed in 2009. He sees patients with all types of neurological problems and provides advice on the diagnosis and further treatment. He aims to offer a personalised service to local GPs and patients.
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- Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes
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- Consultant
- Consultant Gastroenterologist
Ayesha Akbar is a consultant gastroenterologist at St Mark's Hospital which is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for gastrointestinal disorders. She is the Research and Development (R&D) Director for her Trust and a Fellow of the Royal college of Physicians.
Her broad experience covers general gastroenterology and she has a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and functional GI disorders including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Her research work at Imperial College London gained her a PhD entitled "Molecular mechanisms of visceral hypersensitivity in the colon." She has published her research in peer reviewed journals and presented her work at national and international meetings.
She is frequently invited to lecture both on IBD and IBS nationally and internationally, and to contribute to advisory boards as a key opinion leader. Ayesha studied medicine at the University of Manchester and was awarded an Honours degree.
She has an outstanding academic record graduating top of her class and gaining several distinctions and honours along with prestigious prizes. Her postgraduate training was across several major teaching hospitals in London including Hammersmith Hospital, University College Hospital London and Royal London hospital.
Ayesha was elected chair of the NGM committee of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) in 2015 and in this role she is actively involved in education and training. Other key leadership roles chair of the LNC for her trust and Director of the Psychological Medicine Unit at St Mark's Hospital. Ayesha is passionate about patient care and was nominated a "HEART Ambassador" for her trust as she always puts patients at the centre of all she does.
Dr Dan Ornadel qualified in medicine from Balliol College, Oxford University and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School. After training posts in London, he was awarded a Jules Thorne Fellowship to undertake research into the molecular biology of small cell lung cancer and to study the effect of targeting treatment in lung cancer patients with monoclonal antibodies. For this work he was awarded his MD degree at London University. Dan Ornadel was appointed Consultant Physician in Respiratory, General and Intensive care medicine at Central Middlesex Hospital in 1996 and moved to Northwick Park in 2002.
As well as practicing in respiratory medicine, Dr Ornadel has responsibilities for the acute general medical service at Northwick Park. He has been lead physician for the acute admissions unit. He developed and lead the first respiratory high dependency unit at Northwick Park. He has been lead Lung Cancer Physician since 2000 and lead Respiratory Physician 2008-2015. He has been chair of the clinical governance and medical audit committees at Central Middlesex Hospital and has served as a member of the Harrow Ethics Committee. He was lead physician for intensive care at the Clementine Churchill Hospital for 5 years.
In 2009, working with Richard Budgett, chief medical officer for 2012 Olympics, Dr Ornadel developed a respiratory assessment clinic at the Olympic Medical Institute for elite athletes with breathing difficulties. He was lead respiratory physician at the Olympic Village Polyclinic for athletes at the London 2012 Olympics.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the British Thoracic Society.
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- Gastrointestinal Radiologist
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- Consultant Physician in Respiratory, Sleep and General Internal Medicine
Dr. Ian Stone qualified in medicine from Imperial College School of Medicine in 2003 with honours in Physiology and obtaining a Bsc(hons) in Pharmacology and Toxicology.
He undertook his training in London, with time spent at The London Chest, Royal Brompton and Harefield, St. Bartholomew's, The Royal Free, The Royal London and St Mary's Hospitals.
He was subsequently awarded a fellowship to undertake research into the effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease a smoking related lung disease and its treatment on cardiac structure and function using advanced imaging techniques including cardiac MRI. The work undertaken has,and continues, to be presented at international conferences and resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications and awards, including those from the British Lung Foundation. For this work he was awarded a PhD degree from the University of London.
Prior to taking up his current post at Northwick park and Central Middlesex Hospitals Dr Ian Stone was the Consultant co-lead for the development of Integrated Respiratory Services in the Borough of Hillingdon. He was involved in GP training and organised public and patient education events. As part of that role Dr Stone worked as a Consultant at Harefield Hospital in sleep medicine and was the co-lead for the development of the unexplained breathlessness service.
His current role
Dr Stone manages patients with the entire range of respiratory conditions. He is currently the Trust Lead at LNWUH NHS trust for Sleep Medicine where over 500 sleep studies are undertaken and personally reported by Dr Stone. As a Consultant Respiratory Physician he is consulted about cough, breathlessness, wheezing, sputum, coughing up blood, chest pains, snoring, and all other symptoms related to the lungs. He treats patients with persistent cough, breathlessness, asthma, chronic bronchitis and emphysema COPD, lung cancer, pulmonary fibrosis, chest infections, pneumonia, TB, bronchiectasis, pulmonary nodules, pleural disease, pleural effusion, pulmonary embolism, sarcoidosis, pneumothorax and sleep apnoea.
He is an experienced bronchoscopist including standard and endobronchial ultrasound guided - EBUS - biopsies and undertakes respiratory fitness to fly testing and cardio-pulmonary exercise testing.
Dr Stone has extensive experience of acute, general and emergency medicine. He is involved in the acute on-call rota at Northwick Park admitting up to 50 emergencies per day. He is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the British Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society.
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- Consultant Gastroenterologist
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- Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist
Dr Rouhani has graduated with MD from the top medical university in Tehran and completed her post-graduate medical training at Imperial College London. She has started her dermatology specialist training at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London followed by further training in South Wales including the Institute of dermatology at Cardiff University Hospital.
Dr Rouhani is on the specialist register with GMC and an NHS consultant dermatologist at London Northwest university health care based at Northwick Park and Central Middlesex hospital. She has completed her MSc in skin ageing and aesthetic medicine at Manchester University. She is regularly involved in Imperial college medical students teaching and Gp training alongside supervising dermatology specialists and fellows. She has had publications in British dermatology journals with multiple presentations at regional and national conferences.
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- Consultant
- Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Chahal is a Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. He works at London Northwest NHS Trust and the Royal Brompton Hospital, London having qualified from Guy's and St Thomas' Medical School in 2001.
He was awarded a PhD in 2012 for research into early imaging markers of cardiovascular disease, particularly in individuals of Indian Asian ethnicity and has published more than 30 original research articles since 2007 on a range of epidemiological, imaging and clinical areas.
Dr Chahal has accrued considerable experience in exercise and dobutamine stress echocardiography for the assessment of ischaemia and structural disease. He also has extensive training in cardiac MRI and coronary CT angiography which he reports regularly.
He is married with 2 young children. He is a keen sportsman - playing cricket and football for local teams, swimming regularly and also enjoys snowboarding.
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- Consultant Gastroenterologist
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- Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia
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- Consultant
- Consultant Dermatologist
Dr Sangeeta Punjabi is an experienced Consultant Dermatologist having trained in the UK and Overseas (India). Dr Punjabi is registered fully with the GMC on the specialist register and is a member of the British Association of Dermatologists, and a member of the contact dermatitis group.
Her dermatological career spans from covering post graduate studies in Dermatology in India to training and research in skin cancer (Basal Cell carcinoma) in the UK.
She specialises in all aspects of General dermatological disease with a particular interest in Asian skin and contact dermatitis.
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- Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician
Miss Maitra qualified from Calcutta University in 1993. She did her specialist training in the North West Thames region of London primarily at St Mary's Hospital, London where she had the privilege of training with some eminent doctors in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She has been a key member in setting up the new Gynaecology Direct Referral unit at Northwick Park Hospital where women with early pregnancy problems, emergency gynaecology problems i.e. pelvic pain and very heavy menstrual bleeding would be able to walk in and have their problems sorted with surgery if necessary and be discharged home as soon as possible thereby providing a better patient experience.
Miss Maitra's interest outside medicine include hill walking, listening to Indian and Western classical music, cooking, craft and needlework. She is specially interested in cooking Indian, Chinese and Thai cuisines for friends and family. Most of her free time is now spent with her child and she loves watching him grow up. She is a very good communicator with an excellent knowledge of English, Hindi, Bengali and Urdu.
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- Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician
Mr Disu is a Laparoscopic Surgeon and a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with the London Northwest Healthcare NHS Trust. (Private Wing - Trust Plus).
His special interests are Emergency Gynaecology and Minimal Access Surgery.
He is a nationally accredited endometriosis surgeon and co-leads a national endometriosis centre at Northwick Park & Central Middlesex Hospitals.
Mr Disu completed his post graduate laparoscopic training at the famous St.Mary's Hospital in London. He is also a qualified and accredited colposcopist since 2006.
Mr Disu's specialist interest is chronic pelvic pain
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- Consultant
- Consultant Ophthalmologist
Dear Miss Bhan, I would like to thank you for the wonderful treatment I received. I now have perfect sight in both eyes. As I told you it has changed my life and I am very grateful to you and the team. 4/2019. (JR. Criminal Barrister)
Anna Bhan is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon with 20 years specialist expertise in cataract and glaucoma surgery. She also deals with general ophthalmology and many other eye conditions.
She runs a busy glaucoma service at the Central Middlesex Hospital where she regularly trains junior eye surgeons. She offers extensive expertise and experience in the treatment of all adult glaucoma including surgery with the latest implants and stents.
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- Colorectal Surgeon
- FRCS ( Gen Surg ) FCS ( SA )
Miss Carolynne Vaizey was educated at Cape Town University and then trained in General and Trauma Surgery up to Consultant level in Johannesburg. On returning to this country in 1992 she first worked as a Surgical Fellow in a District General Hospital and then took up a research post at St Mark's Hospital in Harrow to obtain an MD through the University of London.
At the beginning of 1998 she became a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital in Central London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. In 2003 she took up a new post as Consultant Surgeon at St Mark's Hospital. She is now the Chair of Surgery at St Mark's, the Lead Surgeon for Intestinal Failure and Director of the Sir Alan Park's Physiology Unit.
Miss Vaizey has particular interests in the management of the intestinal failure, Crohn's, faecal incontinence, anal surgery and functional bowel disease. She has written 14 book chapters on her specialty interests and has 98 papers and editorials published.
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- Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Mr Abdul Ahmed completed his Dentistry in Liverpool in 1999 and gained the MFDSRCS in 2002. He studied Medicine at Birmingham Medical School, and completed his basic surgical training and MRCS exams in London.
His higher surgical training was at Northwick Park Hospital, University College London Hospital, Great Ormond street Hospital, and the Royal London Hospital, completing the FRCS in Maxillofacial Surgery in 2013. He has received the Diploma of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
He has a special interest in Head and Neck cancer surgery and Microvascular Reconstruction and Salivary gland surgery, but also offers treatment for Oral Surgery including the treatment of benign pathology of the mouth and jaws, wisdom teeth, Dental implant surgery, jaw joint disorders, and facial pain.
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- Consultant Hand and Upper Limb Surgeon
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- Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
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- Consultant Urological Surgeon
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- Consultant
- Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Mr Gregory Thomas is a consultant colorectal surgeon at St Mark's Hospital. He has a specialist interest in pelvic floor disorders, abdominal wall hernia, proctology and other areas of benign colorectal pathology.
He qualified from Imperial College School of Medicine (St Mary's Hospital) in 2003 with distinction in surgery and an intercalated BSc from Imperial College, London. His basic surgery training was undertaken in the northwest London region with further specialist training in southwest London and Surrey and at St Mark's Hospital.
During his training, he undertook two years of research into pelvic floor disorders at St Mark's Hospital and was awarded an MD (Res) from Imperial College, London. He has maintained a strong research interest in this field. He has published around 40 peer reviewed papers and four text book chapters on pelvic floor and colorectal disorders. He has presented widely on these subjects at national and international meetings.
He was awarded a travelling fellowship from the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland in 2016, and has spent time at the Cleveland Clinic Hospitals in Florida and Ohio USA, and at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes France. He was awarded the FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2016.
Prior to his appointment at St Mark's Hospital, Mr Thomas was a consultant colorectal surgeon at Ashford and St Peter's NHS Trust in Surrey.
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- Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician
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- Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
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- Consultant General Surgeon
Mr Al-Musawi is a very experienced Laparoscopic (KeyHole) surgeon. He graduated with an MBChB in 1985 from the University of Baghdad, Iraq and did his training at the Iraqi Society of Surgical Specialities. His research was on the pathophysiology of anal fissure treated with mini surgery, which resulted in unique and pioneering contributions in the form of publications, presentations, and lectures.
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- Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon
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- Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon
- Divisional Clinical Director for Surgery
Mr Manolis Heliotis is the Divisional Clinical Director for Surgery, St Mark's Hospital, Anaesthetics, ICU and Theatres of the London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust comprising Northwick Park Hospital, St Mark's Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital and Ealing Hospital. He is a fully trained and accredited Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon with a substantive Consultant post at Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospitals in North West London and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. He has admitting rights as consultant to the Clementine Churchill Hospital, Trust Plus, St John's and St Elizabeth's Hospital, Spire Bushey Hospital and The London Clinic & 152 Harley Street in Central London.
Mr Heliotis received all his post-graduate surgical training in the United Kingdom. Formal Higher Surgical Training was achieved by rotating through some of the best training hospitals for his speciality - King's College Hospital, The Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead & The Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. He is Board Certified in Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery in the UK and holds the FRCS (OMFS). He is registered with the GMC (General Medical Council) as a Maxillofacial and Oral Surgeon.
Mr Heliotis qualified in Medicine at the University of Stellenbosch in the beautiful Cape and in Dentistry at the University of the Witwatersrand in vibrant Johannesburg, where he was also born. Mr Heliotis has performed, taught and supervised thousands of procedures on people's faces in his career for complex facial deformity, orthognathic surgery, cosmetic facial surgery, cranio-maxillofacial and orbital trauma and post-traumatic facial deformity correction, septo-rhinoplasties for cosmetic and post-traumatic nasal corrections, facial cosmetic implants, salivary gland surgery, head & neck skin cancer resections and reconstructions of nose, ear, eye lid, orbital and cheek defects with complex flaps and skin grafts.
He has also performed thousands of oral surgical procedures for impacted wisdom teeth, unerupted teeth and dental implants. He has used pioneering translational work in bone grafting and bone regeneration for facial reconstruction and jaw augmentations with recombinant growth factors and has carried out novel work in reconstructing defects resulting from bisphosphonate related osteonecrosis of the jaws.
Mr Heliotis' foremost professional aim is clinical excellence, to give the best care possible to every patient, together with the empathy, understanding and ethos that the Hippocratic Oath demands.
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- Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
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- Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon
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- Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
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- Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
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- Consultant Oral & Maxillo - Facial / Head & Neck Surgeon
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- General & Vascular Surgery
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- Consultant Ophthalmologist and Oculoplastic Surgeon
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- Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon
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- Chief Medical Officer for 2012 Olympics, Dr Ornadel
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- Clinical Nurse Specialist - Stoma and Pouch Care