WHICH MEDICAL DEVICE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Fellow in Interventional Radiology
Alfred graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2010 and went on to complete the academic foundation programme in Glasgow.
In 2012, he entered the West of Scotland Radiology training scheme and was subsequently appointed as an interventional fellow in 2016.
He has a wide interest in both vascular and non-vascular IR procedures but is particularly keen on HCC embolisation techniques and lower limb angioplasty.
He is a firm believer of the potential of social media to help raise the profile of IR to the next level.
Azfar was appointed Consultant Cardiologist to Freeman Hospital and Newcastle University in April 2001 and awarded Honorary Readership in 2008. Following undergraduate training at Leeds University Medical School, he completed postgraduate training in cardiology at regional centres in Leeds, London and Cardiff in the UK. During his tenure as senior registrar, he was a Fulbright scholar and British Heart Foundation International Fellow to Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York. Azfar's clinical expertise is in the field of percutaneous coronary intervention. He performs over 500 cases annually using all adjunctive devices (IVUS, rotablation, laser, pressure wire). In the last year he has gained expertise in Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation using the Edwards Sapien devices.
As consultant, he has maintained an interest in clinical research with a particular interest in atherothrombosis in the diabetic population and non invasive imaging. He has over 50 publications in peer reviewed journals. In 2007 he secured a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Leave Fellowship to support his research activities for a period of 3 years.
After qualifying in 1992 from the University of Glasgow, Dr Muir trained in Glasgow and Manchester. Following the completion of a transradial PCI fellowship in Amsterdam, he was appointed as a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist in Middlesbrough, UK, in 2004.
Dr Muir's major clinical interests are in complex PCI: LMS, rotational atherectomy, CTO and TAVI. A proctor and faculty trainer for the Edwards Sapien TAVI system, he has a strong interest in procedural technologies which allow more complex procedures to be undertaken in safer and more reliable ways.
Ian Nesbitt qualified with honours from Newcastle Medical School in 1991 and subsequently trained in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. He currently works in the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle as a consultant in Anaesthesia & Critical Care. He is also a member of the Territorial Army, with regular deployments overseas.
Ian is on the Editorial Board member for several journals, acts as an advisor to NICE (technology assessment section) and is a Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine Examiner.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
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Mike is a consultant interventional radiologist with an interest in hepatobiliary intervention and interventional oncology. He completed his radiology specialist training and IR fellowship in Scotland, and has subsequently been further mentored in oncological techniques in Southampton and London. He is currently a lead for Selective Internal Radiation Therapy for HCC and Cryoablation for RCC in Bristol.
As a medical officer in the British Army reserves, he received military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2018-2019.
Mike is particularly passionate about cancer care and is interested in optimising outcomes for minimally invasive treatments.
Phil has been a consultant interventional radiologist for over 10 years and founded Which Interventional Device in 2007. Phil's areas of expertise included uro intervention, vascular intervention, hepatobiliary intervention and GI intervention. Phil trained in Newcastle upon Tyne, was lecturer in IR at the College of Surgeons and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin before returning to Newcastle in 1999. He has a keen interest in technology and medical devices.
Job Titles:
- Associate Editor
- Founder of Newsradiology.Com
Sebastian Mafeld graduated from Newcastle Medical School in 2009 and completed his foundation training in the Northern Deanery. He is passionate about advancements in medical technology as well as the evolving role of the internet and social media in medicine.
Sebastian is the founder of newsradiology.com and a co-founder of UK Endovascular Trainees (UKETS). For more information about Sebastian or to connect please visit his LinkedIn profile.
Dr. Jeremy Hyams currently work as an Anaesthetic Specialty Trainee in the Northern Deanery and has done so since 2006. Prior to this, he undertook 3 years of surgical training, obtaining his MRCS(Ed) in the process. Dr. Hyams has worked in the Pre-Hospital environment since 2004, providing medical cover at over 90 events including airshows, concerts, cage-fights, motorsport races, horse trials and many others. He is the Managing Director of Sport Doctors UK and the Clinical Director for ShowMed - both of these companies provide experienced staff for medical cover at events across the UK.
Job Titles:
- Specialist Editor Upper Limb
Alistair Phillips was born in the UK and completed his medical training in London. He moved to Devon and Cornwall for his Higher Surgical Training in Trauma & Orthopaedics and now specialises in Major Trauma with a sub specialist interest in the hand, wrist and elbow. He completed Fellowships in the Pulvertaft Hand Unit with his mentors Carlos Heras-Palou and Chris Bainbridge and then University Hospital Southampton, where he now works.
He has a special interest in Walant (Wide Awake Local Anaesthesia No Tourniquet) and did further fellowships in Canada on the subject. He has built the Charitable website Walant.Surgery as an educational hub and runs an Editorial team of 8 surgeons from 7 different counties to promote the technique. In 2019 he will be Faculty in the inaugural Walant UK course and also one of three keynote speakers at the combined Belgian and Dutch Hand Society National conference.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Specialty Editor Lower Limb and Trauma
Simon is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with specialist training in trauma and hip and knee replacement surgery. He trained at University College London, completed his basic surgical training in Wessex in 2002 and then spent six months working at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, London. Following this he worked as a research registrar at Southampton General Hospital and completed a doctorate (DM) for his thesis on the use of stem cells in orthopaedic surgery. He joined the Wessex Orthopaedic training programme in 2005 and after three fellowships was appointed as a consultant in 2012. He has a particular interest in complex and revision hip and knee surgery and is the orthopaedic lead for the Fragility Fracture Unit based at Southampton General Hospital. He is actively engaged in Beyond Compliance evaluation of new hip and knee prostheses.