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Mr Alastair Brookes is a consultant general and colorectal surgeon with over 15 years of experience based in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.

He is highly trained and experienced in several surgical procedures, such as gastrointestinal procedures, laparoscopic surgery and minimal access surgery (keyhole surgery). Among the many conditions he treats are hernias, pelvic floor dysfunction, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), faecal incontinence and rectal prolapse.

Mr Brookes underwent surgical training in all aspects of colorectal and general surgery in the West Midlands and Lincolnshire. During this period, he took time out to undertake a clinical research post at the University of Leicester. After completing his surgical training, he underwent a post-CCT fellowship in pelvic floor dysfunction.

He has maintained a keen interest in medical research. This research includes investigations into abdominal wall closure, incisional hernia formation, rectal prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction, and has lead to numerous pieces of his work being published in peer-reviewed journals. Not only does he commit to research and providing first-class patient care, but also to teaching and supervising medical students and surgical trainees.

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Professor Hemant Sharma is a leading consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon based in Hull. He has a specialist interest in lower limb surgery, particularly of the hip, knee and limb reconstruction.

As a highly qualified orthopaedic surgeon, he has a wide range of services to offer to his patients. He believes in a holistic approach towards his patients and believes in full patient involvement, especially patients undergoing surgery. His wide range of services includes hip and knee replacement, leg-lengthening, regenerative orthopaedics, complex foot and ankle surgery, bunion surgery, deformity correction and injections. Furthermore, he assists young patients with arthritis in the ankle and knee, with non-union (not-healing) of bones, mal-union of bones and bone infections, to name a few conditions.

Professor Sharma had his initial training in India and further training in Newcastle and the Yorkshire region. He underwent training for hip and knee arthroplasty as well as foot and ankle surgery in Yorkshire and did his limb reconstruction fellowship in Belfast and Italy. Since the completion of his training, he has continued to hone his skills through practising in both the public and private health sectors. Private patients can access his services at Spire and East Riding Hospital, Hull. 

He is an avid teacher and researcher who travels extensively within the UK and internationally, delivering lectures and teaching at various courses. He also runs internationally renowned deformity course at Hull.

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Mr Sanjay Taribagil is a highly-renowned consultant general and upper GI surgeon based in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area. With over 20 years of experience in his field, Mr Taribagil is especially-experienced in the treatment of gallstone disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, groin and recurrent hernias, and appendix problems.

Mr Taribagil graduated from the University of Mumbai with an MBBS in 1991. He then continued his studies in the UK, being awarded an FRCS (Gen) from the Royal College of Surgeons in 2008, and an MD from University College London in 2013. 

Mr Taribagil currently practices at the Spire Washington Hospital. His clinical interests include all types of general and upper GI surgery, such laparoscopic and open complex hernia surgery, antireflux surgery, endoscopy, appendicectomy, and benign gastric pathology. He is also a consultant upper GI surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

In addition to his clinical work, Mr Taribagil has also published numerous medical articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is also a respected medical educator, and currently serves as education supervisor for foundation trainees at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead.  


 

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Mr Aires Lobo is a leading consultant ophthalmic surgeon who practises in Bedford, North London and Central London. With a medical career spanning more than 20 years, he has gained highly skilled and renowned expertise in his field.

Among his numerous areas of expertise are cataract surgery, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, laser retinopexy, blepharitis, dry eye and watering eye. Furthermore, Mr Lobo ensures he uses the most up-to-date techniques and medications to provide the utmost quality ofpatient care.

He also dedicates his career to research with his research interests being targeted towards medical retina, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. In 2011, he was nominated for the Macular Disease Society's annual Clinical Services of the Year Award, which recognises his outstanding efforts in helping to improve the quality of life in patients with macular disease. 

Furthermore, as Mr Lobo continues to even further hone his skills, he also participates in the teaching of peers and auxiliary medical staff as well as GPs. What's more, he is an approved examiner of The Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

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Dr Dipesh Patel is a leading Endocrinology and Diabetes Consultant Physician in London. He has a passion for high quality care. Among his areas of specialist expertise are diabetes (type 2) and associated newer therapies, all thyroid disorders, parathyroid disease, polycystic ovaries (PCOS) and adrenal disease and lipids/cardiovascular risk.

As an avid researcher, he contributes greatly to the development of newer targets and therapies. He does this via clinical  trial investigations into diabetes-related cardiovascular disease mechanisms and prevention as well as research into newer therapies and clinical trials. In fact, he is a principal investigator of clinical trial work at the globally renowned University College London (UCL). During his training, he was awarded a PhD in 2010 by Imperial College London for his research in cholesterol transport in people with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes.

What's more, he participates in the training of future doctors and specialists as an Honorary Associate Professor at UCL and also as a lead teacher of undergraduate endocrinology at the Royal Free Campus of the medical school.

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Mr Vijitha Chandima Halahakoon is a highly accomplished consultant general surgeon based in Colchester, Essex. He has a special interest and expertise in gallbladder surgery, hernias and hernia surgery, haemorrhoids and haemorrhoid surgery, anal fistulas, pilonidal sinus surgery, and colonoscopy. He currently practises at the Oaks Hospital.

After successfully completing both an MBBS and MS at the University of Colombo between 2000 and 2005, Mr Halahakoon was awarded fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England upon obtaining FRCS in general surgery in 2012. He has, to date, undergone higher surgical training in Sri Lanka, Australia and in the UK, and possesses a diploma in advanced laparoscopic surgery, which he received from the University of Strasbourg, France.

Furthermore, Mr Halahakoon has also undergone advanced laparoscopy training at the Colchester General Hospital and is JAG-accredited in both gastroscopy and colonoscopy. Mr Halahakoon has a strong interest in surgical teaching and currently works as the undergraduate surgical tutor at Colchester General Hospital, ESNEFT and as a tutor at the ICENI Centre of the Colchester General Hospital, ESNEFT.

Mr Halahakoon is also the author of numerous research publications and his work has been published in several reputed journals. He has spoken at multiple national and international medical conferences and is a member of multiple medical organisations, including The Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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Mr Neill Patani is an experienced consultant oncoplastic and reconstructive breast surgeon based in central London. He specialises in the management of breast cancer and all aspects of breast disease, including pain, infection, benign conditions and risk-reduction strategies. Mr Patani practises privately at The London Breast Institute, Princess Grace Hospital for HCA Healthcare and at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust.

He has experience with a range of oncoplastic breast conserving techniques and reconstruction options, including nipple-sparing approaches and one-stage pre-pectoral implant reconstruction with acellular dermal matrix, nipple reconstruction, fat transfer and symmetrisation surgery. Mr Patani completed his training with oncoplastic fellowships and specialist placements at leading breast cancer centres including the Royal Marsden Hospital, Charing Cross (Imperial College NHS Trust), St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals, among others.

He maintains an active interest in laboratory, translational and clinical breast cancer research, with more than 50 peer reviewed publications, serving on the Academic and Research Committee for the Association of Breast Surgery. Following his BSc in Tumour Biology from University College London (UCL) and PhD from The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital. 

Mr Patani is currrently an Honorary Associate Professor at UCL Institute for Women's Health, Department of Women’s Cancer, and visiting Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow at The Francis Crick Institute in the Oncogenes and Tumour Metabolism Laboratory. Neill is also a Specialist Breast Advisor to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) and was an Honorary Clinical Fellow for the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme reviewing breast litigation.

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Professor Debora Elijah is a highly esteemed cognitive neuropsychologist, practising privately at the Elijah Social Cognitive Skills Centre in North London. Professor Elijah attends to a range of age groups from 20 months old to young adults, specialising in building social communication skills, ASD, ADHD, self-regulation and anxiety. She is renowned for her holistic approach, treating everyone as an individual, offering treatment that is tailored specifically to that individual.

Professor Elijah graduated with a degree in neuropsychology from University Louvain La Nueve before studying and completing her PhD in Clinical Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Educational Psychology at Fernando Pessoa University. She was trained by Theo Peeters, a Belgian neurolinguist at the Centre for Training in Autism in Antwerp, Belgium. In Antwerp, she was the Joint Director of Tikvatenu, a centre for social communication skills. She also spent time in Brazil conducting research into structured and non-structured environments for autistic children and children with communication disorders, which was supported by the Brazilian Government. At the same time, she was a founder of CIAPEMA, a centre of research and intervention for young high functioning children with autism and related communication disorders.
She was also a lead researcher in the Process Cognitive Psychology group at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio Grande do Sul.

Professor Elijah returned to the UK in 2000 and has since worked in her own private practice and for two different charities. She developed a programme called PROSCIG©​, an intervention programme dealing with social perception, self-regulation and social problem-solving. She also works at Harley Street Family Centre as a cognitive neuropsychologist and HCPC registered educational consultant. 

Her work has been globally recognised and she has appeared in numerous news articles. Her book The Social Cognitive Mind in Promoting Psychosocial Competences in the Peer Group was published in Portugal in 2014. Professor Elijah also received special mention in the book Autism: How To Raise A Happy Autistic Child by award-winning The Times journalist Jessie Hewitson.

Professor Elijah was appointed as Professor in 2020 of Autism Spectrum and Alternative Communication, as well as being a social sciences coordinator, delivering lectures in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Increased Alternative Communication Module at the Fernando Pessoa University.

The graduatecourse at The Fernando Pessoa University enables trainees to deepen and practice specific knowledge, allowing the development of competencies that favour effective and quality care to this population and their families, according to the international guidelines of evidence-based practice.

Registration number: PYL32792

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Professor Jeremy Levy is a highly distinguished consultant nephrologist based in London who specialises in the treatment and management of all aspects of kidney diseases, including chronic kidney disease, glomerulonephritis, diabetic kidney disease (nephropathy), HIV and kidney disease, polycystic kidney disease (APKD), proteinuria and nephrotic syndrome. In addition to hypertension, he is also an expert in immune-mediated renal diseases, such as vasculitis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Professor Levy currently sees patients at Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial Private Healthcare.

Professor Levy qualified from the University of Cambridge in 1989 and completed his nephrology training in London and Oxford. He then obtained a PhD in renal immunology from Imperial College London in 1999 and later became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2004. Following this, Professor Levy was appointed consultant nephrologist and physician at Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals (Imperial College Healthcare) and at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where he leads the renal service.

Besides his nephrology practice, Professor Levy is actively involved in research and medical education, invited to teach worldwide, including for the International Society of Nephrology and European Renal Association. He is the author of textbooks on dialysis and nephrology, including the Oxford Handbook of Dialysis, and is professor of practice (Medicine) at Imperial College, London, where he additionally serves as director of clinical academic training. Previously, Professor Levy chaired the UK Renal Association Education and Training Committee. Additionally, Professor Levy is the regional speciality advisor for renal medicine for the Royal College of Physicians and supports academic training nationally for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

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Mr Andrew Aldridge is a highly esteemed consultant colorectal and general surgeon, who specialises in colorectal cancer, colonoscopy, a full range of hernia surgery, laparoscopic gallbladder surgery, rectal prolapse, rectal bleeding, as well as haemorrhoids and haemorrhoid surgery. He is currently consulting at the Eastbourne-based Old Orchard Consulting Rooms, and is a member of Sussex Premier Health.

Mr Aldridge, who also possesses expertise in gallstones, abdominal pain, change in bowel habit, anal fistula and inflammatory bowel disease, qualified in medicine with an MBBS in 1989 at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, before becoming FRCS via the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1994. He completed research with an MS thesis degree in 2001.

Mr Aldridge boasts extremely impressive surgical outcomes in multiple areas, particularly in the realm of colorectal cancer, with no incomplete resections in the last five years and a 90-day surgical mortality rate of 0 per cent. He has had no recorded inguinal hernia recurrences in the last 10 years. He is undoubtedly one of the most highly regarded and skilled endoscopists in Sussex, with more than 28 years' experience, and has been a consultant colorectal and general surgeon in Eastbourne for 20 years.

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