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Professor Rod Hughes is a highly esteemed rheumatologist based in Chertsey and Weybridge. From his private clinics at BMI The Runnymede Hospital and Prime Health, he treats patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, joint injections, lupus and gout. 

Professor Hughes qualified from Oxford University and London Hospital Medical School, before training at Northwick Park Hospital and then on a south-west Thames rotation as a registrar. His MD focused on uncovering the cause of reactive arthritis. 

Along with his private practice, Professor Hughes is an experienced general physician and has been consultant rheumatologist at St Peter’s hospital for twenty years. He has held numerous posts over the years, including clinical director of medicine and lead consultant in rheumatology, lead for education and training in medicine, college tutor and training programme director for rheumatology at KSS deanery.

He is an accredited educator for the Royal College of Physicians, an examiner for MRCP PACES and runs a diploma course for GPs with a special interest in rheumatology. He was a past president to the rheumatology section at the RSM, past trustee and Chair of the External Relations Committee at the BSR and has an active research unit at St Peter’s Hospital. He has much rheumatological knowledge, which he has used to contribute to numerous articles and papers. 

He is a valued member of the British Society for Rheumatology, American College of Rheumatology and the Royal Society of Medicine, to name a few. 

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Dr Michael Platt is a highly-respected pain medicine and anaesthetic consultant based in London and is the Medical Director of award-winning cannabis clinic Sapphire Medical. He specialises in complex pain issues, Ehlers-Danos syndromes (EDS) and complex cancer pain alongside chronic pain, headaches and migraines. Dr Platt privately practises at Sapphire Medical, King Edward VII's Hospital, Cromwell Hospital and The Platinum Medical Centre at Wellington Hospital.

Dr Platt has over 30 years of experience working as consultant for the NHS.  He was the senior consultant in pain medicine and consultant in anaesthetics at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, until June 2021. There he provided a transformational service which delivered reduced mortality rates of under one per cent, among the lowest in the UK. 

His expertise in pain management is reflected in his leadership of Sapphire Medical, which has been formed alongside specialist doctors. The clinic enables access to medicinal cannabis for patients who derive clinical benefit through consultation. Sapphire's experts work within a framework that's approved by the Care Quality Commission.

Mr Platt's career achievements are complemented by an equally impressive educational history; he has studied at highly-respected institutions including The University of Western Australia, where he undertook an MBBS, and St Mary's University, where he was awarded an Master's degree in Bioethics. He also is a double fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He has an ​FRCA in Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain and an FFOMRCA in Pain Medicine.

Further to his medical and educational accomplishments, Mr Platt is an esteemed academic. He has been a senior lecturer in anaesthetics at Imperial College London and is currently Honorary Senior Lecturer in Pain Medicine at St Mary's Hospital and Imperial College Faculty of Medicine. Mr Platt is also Honorary Consultant in Palliative Care for Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Trust.     

He has an in-depth background of leadership for public bodies and has been the chair of various committees, including his former NHS trust's medical advisory and local negotiating committee, alongside the British Pain Society's Philosophy & Ethics Special Interest Group (SIG). Currently he is the medical director of ecumenical organisation the Guild of Health.

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Mr Mudassar Ghazanfar is a highly regarded and experienced consultant general surgeon who specialises in pancreatitis, pancreas surgery, gallstones, hernias, liver cancer, and laparoscopic hernia surgery. He currently practises at the Albyn Hospital in Aberdeen. 

Mr Ghazanfar graduated in 2000 after he successfully completed an MBBS at the Punjab University Lahore in Pakistan. Following this, he would move to the UK to undertake higher surgical training in both Oxford and Aberdeen. Mr Ghazanfar, who holds a master’s degree in minimal access surgery, possesses a high level of expertise in all types of hernias and hernia surgery. He has extensive experience in general surgery and is a specialist in biliary diseases.

Mr Ghazanfar is the current lead for acute gallstone disease in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He is actively involved in medical student teaching and holds an honorary senior clinical lecturer position at the University of Aberdeen Medical School. He is a Royal College of Surgeons faculty member for post-graduate teaching and his research centres on pancreatitis, biliary diseases, and liver cancer.

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Mr Simon Atkinson is a highly experienced consultant pancreaticobiliary and general surgeon based in London, with expertise in various areas including gallbladder surgery, gallstones, hernia surgery, pancreatic cancer, pancreas surgery, and pancreatitis.

With over 35 years of experience, Mr Atkinson currently serves as a Consultant Pancreaticobiliary & General surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic London and the Cleveland Clinic London Rapid Access Gallbladder Unit. In addition, he holds Consultant posts at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Kings College Hospital NHS Trust.

Mr Atkinson first qualified with an MBBS from the Royal London Medical College, University of London, in 1987. He then went on to achieve an FRCS(Gen) from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1992, followed by a higher surgical degree (MS) awarded in 1997. His MS was granted for his research work in critical illness in the surgical patient. He completed his higher surgical training in general, pancreaticobiliary, and upper gastrointestinal surgery in London and South East England. He was awarded a Surgical Fellowship as a Senior Surgical Fellow in Perth, Western Australia.

He is also currently lead for clinical governance in GI surgery at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital and has previously served as Clinical Lead for Gastrointestinal Surgery both at Guy's & St Thomas' and Clinical Lead for HPB Surgery at King's College Hospital. He is a member of the Great Britain & Ireland Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (GBIHPBA) and the Association of Upper GI Surgeons (AUGIS). He also works as a Medical Examiner and is a member of the Royal College of Pathologists Medical Examiner section.

With his wealth of experience and commitment to patient well-being, Mr Simon Atkinson stands as a beacon of excellence in the field of pancreaticobiliary surgery, offering compassionate and cutting-edge care to his patients.

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Miss Nahid Gul is a highly-skilled and respected consultant gynaecological, pelvic, robotic and laparoscopic surgeon based in Manchester and Wirral who specialises in endometrial cancer, endometriosis and neuropelveology (pelvic pain), alongside minimally-invasive procedures - both laparoscopic and robotic myomectomies and hysterectomies, complex pelvic surgery (pelvic floor surgery) and early cancer diagnosis using colposcopy and vulvoscopy techniques. She privately practices at The Christie Private Care and Spire Murrayfield Hospital Wirral, while her NHS base is Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. 

Miss Gul has an impressive educational history. She has an MBBS from the University of Osmania, India, and is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) and the International College of Robotic Surgeons (FICRS). She went on to undertake subspecialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology with an interest in gynaecological cancer, complex benign gynaecological surgery, colposcopy and vulval diseases, in the West Midlands. 

She gained extensive expensive in complex pelvic open and vaginal surgery and after completing her CCST, she did a one year post-CCST fellowship in gynaecology at Birmingham Cancer Centre. 

Miss Gul is passionate about research and her interest lies in understanding immunological basis of cancer and development of safe surgical techniques. Her current aim is to understand the anatomy and physiology of pelvic nerves and pelvic floor. Furthermore, Miss Gul's research has been featured in various peer-reviewed journals. 

Miss Gul is a member of several professional organisations, including the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG), the British and Irish Association of Robotic Gynaecologists (BIARGS) and the British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (BSCCP). She's also a member of the British Society of Urogynaecologists (BSUGS), the European Society of Endoscopic Surgery (ESGE) and the Society of European Robotic Gynaecological Surgery (SERGS). 

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Mr Robert Milligan is a leading consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne who specialises in the treatment of breast lumps and breast cancer with complex breast conservation surgery and reconstruction whenever possible, using partial breast reconstruction and breast reduction techniques. If mastectomy is required, he will always discuss breast reconstruction options first. In addition, Mr Milligan is also an expert in breast implant surgery, breast enlargement, breast reduction and breast clinic assessments.

Mr Milligan qualified from Newcastle University Medical School in 2006. He then completed his core and specialist surgical training in the Northern Deanery, where he rotated around the largest breast screening units in the North East of England, acquiring extensive clinical experience in oncoplastic breast surgery. Mr Milligan later became the first surgeon in the UK to introduce the LOCalizer system and Radiofrequency Identification Tags, an innovative radiation-free technology used to locate breast tumours. He now lectures on this subject internationally.

Besides his oncoplastic breast surgery practice, Mr Milligan has a keen interest in Education, Training and Surgical Innovation. He is the Gateshead representative on the regional Breast Tumour Pathway Board, the principal investigator for multiple national clinical trials and has authored various publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Alongside his NHS work at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Mr Milligan currently sees patients at Nuffield Health Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospital. Additionally, he also runs a breast clinic for breast cancer patients with new breast symptoms and for people who are considering aesthetic breast surgery.

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Dr Jeremy Slaughter is a chartered clinical psychologist and occupational psychologist practising in the London area. Although Dr Slaughter works with a large array of different conditions, he specialises in integrative therapy, depression, work-life balance, clinic psychology, stress, and anxiety. Due to the current pandemic, he is accepting online consultations and appointments only.

Starting with a degree in another field, Dr Slaughter successfully received his qualification for psychology in 2000. His journey to discovering clinical psychology has proven that it is his passion and provided a real-life experience that he uses today to help his patients. Dr Slaughter experienced first-hand what it is like to try endless methods to help the self and try to find the right path for your journey. This became the inspiration to follow clinical psychology to help not only himself, but eventually others who have similar experiences - but now with a trained eye and mind. 

Along this journey with clinical psychology, Dr Slaughter found that a lot of roles in psychology follow one of 12 factions and generally tend to behave as companions and trackers who only listen. He wanted to change this and really emphasise bringing it all together with integrated therapy, as well as being a participant in his patients' journeys. Dr Slaughter does this by taking the patient out of the "therapy circle" going round and round and creating a plan to have a direction that brings the patient where they want to as efficiently as possible.

Dr Slaughter developed a software to assist with this surveyor role called PsycNav™ (satnav for psychology). This programme evolved sessions beyond note-taking, where Dr Slaughter could now create a map of each patient's life, and in turn help the patients to better themselves. He has found that most problems and issues are actually from many levels of personal beliefs and habits, as opposed to a single treatment being the answer. Dr Slaughter works with a complete solution in this manner.

Dr Slaughter views his surveyor role as not only psychological therapy, but as a provider for insight into the structure of the difficulties his patients face. Ultimately, they can find solutions beyond therapy in other modalities to complement it. In this way, there will be more skill in recognising and formulating difficulties; and recognising faced difficulties and resolving them will be quicker now and in the future.

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Mr Jonathan Dunne is a consultant plastic surgeon with nearly 15 years of experience. He is the co-founder of Montrose London, a dermatology and aesthetics clinic in Belgravia, lead clinician for the Imperial Skin Cancer Service and founded the Imperial Facial Reconstruction Centre, a multi-specialty collaborative providing expert care. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Plastic Surgery) specialising in moles, skin cancer, melanoma, facial reconstruction, blepharoplasty and facelift.
 
Jonathan trained in Bristol, Yorkshire, Sydney and Malawi and completed specialist training in plastic surgery in London hospitals including Chelsea & Westminster, Royal Free, St George’s and Charing Cross.
 
He is uniquely trained in all aspects of facial plastic surgery, undertaking two further years of fellowships in minimally invasive facial skin cancer treatment (Mohs surgery), head and neck microvascular surgery, facial palsy, and craniofacial and aesthetic surgery. His further training in facial plastic surgery was completed in Melbourne, Boston and Stockholm, and aesthetic training in London hospitals including the Wellington, King Edward VII, the London Clinic and St John and St Elizabeth’s.
 
Jonathan co-authored the Oxford Handbook of Head & Neck anatomy, has authored more than 50 publications and book chapters, and is regularly invited to speak at international meetings on facial plastic surgery and skin cancer, being awarded several national prizes. He is the principal investigator for the international MelMarT-II melanoma trial at Imperial, and chief investigator for the DEPLOY desmoplastic melanoma study.
 
Jonathan is passionate about plastic surgery education and development in resource-poor settings and is a trustee of the Malawi Burns Trust and a member of the national committee for BFIRST (British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgery & Training).

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Dr Diana Mansour is a highly respected consultant in community gynaecology and reproductive healthcare. She is based in Newcastle but offers remote consultations for St Erme Medical. She has over four decades of experience, focusing on women's health, menopause, contraceptive methods, female sexual dysfunction, menstrual disorders and premature ovarian insufficiency.
 
Dr Mansour adopts a comprehensive approach to women's healthcare, prioritising patient involvement in decision-making and thoroughly exploring all available options. Despite holding various national and international roles in developing medical guidelines, her true passion lies in direct patient care, which motivated her to pursue a medical career.
 
Originally trained at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff, she later moved to London, where she continued her postgraduate studies in obstetrics and gynaecology. Specialising in Community Gynaecology, she relocated to the North East in 1995 and has served as an NHS consultant in community gynaecology and reproductive healthcare in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1997.
 
Dr Mansour can help women facing a wide range of medical gynaecological issues, including adolescent menstrual problems, complex contraception and sexual health issues, psychosexual concerns, heavy menstrual bleeding, premenstrual syndrome (PMS) , polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), hypothalamic amenorrhoea, and menopausal challenges. She is recognised as a specialist and trainer by the British Menopause Society.

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Mr Stefan Niculescu is a leading consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in Yorkshire. He specialises in hip replacement, hip arthritis and osteoarthritis, as well as hip pain, knee replacement and knee arthritis.
 
Mr Niculescu studied medicine at in Romania, before pursuing further training and moving to the UK, where he began to practice in 2013. He underwent specialist complex hip and knee surgery fellowship training at Oxford University Hospitals, a world renowned centre of clinical excellence  

Furthermore, in 2017, he held the postion of revision arthroplasty visiting fellow at Helios ENDO-Klinik Hamburg, European centre of excellence for revision hip and knee replacement.  

He takes a special interest in knee surgery offering treatment for sports injuries as well as arthritis. He performs knee infiltrations, arthroscopy, cartilage and meniscal repairs and resection.

Mr Niculescu also performs hip replacement using a Piriformis sparing approach, which has a proven higher patient satisfaction. Additionally, he specialises in computer navigated knee replacement for knee joint deformities as well as complex joint reconstruction following previous surgeries.

He has obtained a certificate of completion of training in trauma & orthopaedics (CCT) from the British Orthopaedic Association. 

Mr Niculescu is also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

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