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- General Practitioner at Spire Liverpool Hospital
Dr Arun Ghosh is a general practitioner at Spire Liverpool Hospital and is the principal partner and founder of Ghosh Medical, a Private General Practice Service currently being run in Liverpool and across the North West. He regularly appears the resident doctor on the ITV The Jeremy Kyle Show and as a medical expert on BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio, ITV and was voted in the top 250 doctors for 2013 in the UK by Tatler magazine.
Arun is Liverpool born and bred and feels a great loyalty to the community he was raised in and so have always practiced medicine in and around Merseyside. He completed his degree at Liverpool University, an institution at the cutting edge of medical training. As a junior doctor he worked in all rotations including A&E, Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Surgery and General Medicine at most of the Merseyside hospitals. He soon realised that his real passion was General Practice, practising family medicine and offering my services in a community setting. Following a patient's journey right from birth to death allows Dr Ghosh to build real relationships and care for patients through all their health needs in life and keeping the traditional strong links between doctor and patient.
Dr Jonathan Behar is a Specialist Registrar in Cardiology and General Internal Medicine. He qualified with distinction in sciences from the Royal Free and University College London Medical School in 2006 (MB BS and BSc) alongside 14 prizes and certificates of distinction. . He trained as a junior doctor in north London with rotations in district general and tertiary centre hospitals between 2006-2010. He acquired MRCP in 2009 and went on to acquire a highly sought after national training number in cardiology in 2010. He has spent three years training in general cardiology which has included general and acute medicine. He is currently taking time out from his busy clinical work to pursue a PhD at St Thomas's' Hospital, London where he is looking at specialist cardiac pacemakers (CRT - cardiac resynchronisation therapy) and using imaging modalities such as MRI to aid with their implantation. He is a keen clinical teacher and regularly lectures junior doctors on human behaviour in medical error and patient safety. He has numerous publications in peer reviewed journals, has written a cardiology chapter for a text book and has re written the cardiology curriculum within a training course for junior doctors in general medicine.
Past clinical experiences as a medical student included volunteering within the Israeli Ambulance Services for two months, providing first aid and basic life support for a range of medical conditions, including treating victims of terrorist attacks. He appeared on Israeli National Television to talk about his experience in Hebrew. He has also worked in Cape Town South Africa as a final year medical student within the trauma and emergency department at Groote Schuur Hospital.
He has a keen interest in leadership and medical management, being one of the founding members of a junior doctors forum called BAMMbino in 2007. He has also organised national events in patient safety and presented his work at national conferences.
He enjoys tennis, swimming and amateur photography in his spare time.
Rob works part-time in general practice, where he also runs a men's health clinic, and in a hospital sexual health clinic. Taking a holistic approach to health he firmly believes that prevention is better than cure and that keeping healthy should be fun, not hard work. Based in Greater London he is married and has one daughter.
Rob is the Classic FM radio doctor and has live and recorded television experience as a guest expert and presenter.
He has presented radio and webcast shows, and DVD and CD-Rom programmes.
He writes for Men's Fitness, Healthy, Prima Baby and Teletext, and often contributes to other publications including the Mirror and Express newspapers, Now, Top Sante, Woman, Zest, and New Woman.
Rob has published two books - "Control your blood pressure: Keeping a lid on hypertension" and "Beat your allergies: Find relief, feel free".
An editor and prolific contributor to the BBC online health sites, he is also the medical script adviser to the successful BBC television drama series "Doctors".
He gives talks for consumer, professional and corporate audiences and during his many years as a communications consultant has become a respected media-trainer.
Dr Roger Henderson was born in 1960 and raised inWhitehaven,Cumbria. He qualified as a doctor from St Bartholomew's Hospital,Londonin 1985 and as a general practitioner in 1990.
He decided to enter the media world in 1995, and within 2 years was the medical columnist of the Sunday Times. He has since written regular columns and articles for all the national newspapers as well as many magazines, and is one of the UKs most popular and respected media medics.
His books - ‘Stress Beaters; 100 Proven Ways to Manage Stress', ‘100 ways to live to 100' and ‘Over 50 Men's Health Check' have all been serialized in the national press. At the end of 2011 his books ‘Pregnancy for Dummies' and ‘Dad's Guide to Pregnancy for Dummies', were released to critical acclaim. He is also writing his first novel, based in the world of art fraud.
He is also a popular lecturer and after-dinner motivational speaker on a wide range of health-related topics and his medical responsibilities include bein g the senior partner of a six doctor general practice in Shropshire, running a main surgery and two busy branch surgeries, and teaching both medical students and GP registrars. He sits on a number of health advisory boards both in the UKand globally.
He is a member of the Guild of Health Writers and is a Regional Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Sarah is a GP, GP trainer and fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
She is also a medical writer and broadcaster, and is currently the BBC Radio 2 doctor and doctor to the One Show on BBC1, Good Housekeeping, My Weekly and AXA PPP magazines, as well as spending 10 years as ITN lunchtime News doctor.
She also contributes regularly to Daybreak, Sky News and BBC Radio 5 live. She has been a regular contributor to a variety of medical magazines and journals including Update, Doctor, Practice Nurse, the British Journal of Cardiology and Cardiology News.
She has been the Women's Health spokesperson for the RCGP and chair of the Health Care Committee of HEART UK (the cholesterol charity) and has written several books including The Welcome Visitor, on the ethics of dying co-authored with John Humphry
Dr. Sarah Brewer qualified as a doctor from Cambridge University, and was a full-time GP for 5 years. She soon realised that sitting in a surgery every day allowed her to give around 30 health messages a day; but spending that day writing a feature for publication in a national newspaper disseminates over one million health messages - assuming anyone reads it. Sarah now writes widely on all aspects of health, including complementary medicine and the safe use of herbal remedies and vitamin supplements.
Mark spent 5 years in a variety of hospital specialties before becoming a GP in Stroud in 1990 where, despite his varied commitments, he remains in clinical practice at his busy NHS surgery . Mark, 42, is a keen runner and tennis player, and lives on an old farm in the Cotswolds with his wife Ros and their two teenage daughters.
He was awarded an MBE in 2005 for services to medicine.
Mark is one of the most experienced members of the UK's medical media elite. Since joining the BBC in 1992, he has worked on all the corporation's various media. He presents Case Notes on Radio 4, was Health Editor at the Radio Times for 10 years and has been a regular on television, including 3 years presenting BBC 1's flagship consumer health programmer Watchdog Healthcheck.
He is also a prolific writer and currently has columns in the London Evening Standard, Closer and Sainsbury's Magazine.
Phil qualified as a GP in 1991.
Between 1993 and 1996, he was a Lecturer in General Practice at the University of Birmingham and received the Owen Wade Award for Teacher of the Year, as voted by the students.
Between 1996 and 1999, he was a Lecturer in Medical Communication at the University of Bristol and his work was highly commended by the General Medical Council and Quality Assessment Authority. As a doctor, Phil worked as a GP for 10 years before switching to Sexual Health Medicine for two years between 2000 and 2002. He has recently returned to General Practice, living and practicing near Bristol.
Phil has vast experience as a writer, presenter, broadcaster and speaker. As a journalist, he broke the story of the Bristol heart scandal, gave evidence to the Public Inquiry and was made a Vice President of the Patients' Association. He presented six series of "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor" on BBC2 and wrote a best selling book of he same name. He recently toured the UK with a one man show, "89 Minutes to save the NHS", described by Time Out as Time Out as "Tremendous; sceptical, irreverent and very funny". He is Private Eye's medical correspondent and has been a panellist on "Have I Got News for You" five times. In 2005, he presented "Body Wars" (Discovery Channel), "NHS Day" (BBC1), "A History of Anaesthetics" and "Doctor, Doctor" (both Channel 5).
Dr. Radha studied at CambridgeUniversity from 1997-2000 gaining an MA and qualified as a doctor at to ImperialCollege, London in 2003 with honours. She worked for five years in hospital medicine in Londonand then trained for a further two years to qualify as a GP with Distinction. Dr. Radha continues to practice as an NHS GP, as well as teaching and working in health promotion. She lives in London and is a keen sports fanatic and paraglider!
Dr Radha is medical presenter for Channel 4's The Sex Education Show', the BBC's ‘Make My Body Younger' and the Body Beautiful Season. She contributed to BBC Headroom (BAFTA Mental Health Media Award) and appeared regularly in Channel 5's ‘The Vanessa Show', ‘Live with Gaby' and ‘Chasing the Saturdays' on E! entertainment. She is currently a resident radio doctor on Radio 1's ‘The Surgery' with Aled'. Radha is also the weekly columnist for Woman's Own and MSN Lifestyle, and has written for Bliss Magazine Online, Red Magazine, Top Sante, the Mail Online and The Times Educational Supplement. She is a member of the GP Advisory Board for Cancer Research UK and has worked with Mind and the British Heart Foundation promoting their campaigns.