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Mr Paul Hamilton is a top orthopaedic consultant based in Surrey and London. He specialises in adult foot and ankle surgery and trauma surgery, including forefoot reconstruction, arthroscopy and arthroplasty, and is an expert in treating sport injuries, Morton's neuroma, arthritis and bunions.

After qualifying from St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Medical School, he completed three medical fellowships in the UK and a travelling fellowship to Boston, USA, giving him extensive specialist training. In addition to his private and NHS practices, Mr Hamilton is actively involved in research, and has published and presented his work in orthopaedics around the world.

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Mr Christopher Buckle is a leading consultant orthopaedic hip & knee surgeon based in Sussex. Mr Buckle is highly experienced in a wide range of orthopaedic procedures and treatments, with his areas of expertise including hip and knee replacements, revision hip and knee surgery and knee arthroscopy.
 
Mr Buckle currently practises privately at Sussex Premier Health. Patients seeking expert care for conditions such as arthritis, avascular necrosis (AVN) of the hip, bursitis, and prosthetic joint infection will find reassurance in Mr Buckle's extensive experience and commitment to advanced techniques. He is highly experienced in complicated procedures such as minimally invasive hip surgery, enhanced recovery knee replacement, and custom-made knee replacement minimally invasive hip surgery.

Mr Buckle qualified with an MBBS from Queen Mary University of London, before going on to achieve a Master's degree in Musculoskeletal Science from the University of Oxford in 2018. In 2019 he was awarded the prestigious FRCS(Tr&Orth) from the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr Buckle also trained and worked as a physiotherapist prior to his surgical career.
 
With a passion for education, Mr Buckle imparts his knowledge as a mentor to registrar-level surgeons in the Kent, Surrey, and Sussex training programmes. He has also contributed to numerous research articles and publications, making him an authority in the field.
 

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Professor Julian Halcox is a highly experienced, internationally recognised cardiologist, with a special interest in vascular biology and cardiovascular disease prevention. He is considered to be a leading expert in the field of advanced cardiovascular risk assessment and prevention of heart attack and stroke. He also specialises in coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, POTS syndrome, heart valve disease, and lipid disorders including high cholesterol. He performs radionuclide myocardial perfusion scans (nuclear cardiology) to investigate blood flow to the heart in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.  
 
Other areas of expertise that Professor Halcox possesses include heart failure, arrhythmia, cardiac complications of diabetes and managing heart conditions in patients with multiple and complex medical problems. He is particularly skilled in the assessment of patients with chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, dizzy spells, blackouts / loss of consciousness and leg swelling.
 
Professor Halcox is the senior professor of cardiology in Swansea University Medical School and consultant cardiologist in Swansea Bay University Health Board. He is a global leader in the field of preventive cardiovascular medicine and has been involved in the development of European as well as local guidelines for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. He is an active member of several national and international specialist associations, review boards, and industry clinical advisory boards. He has published extensively and lectures regularly on topics that are closely related to vascular biology, cardiovascular risk assessment and prevention of cardiovascular disease at local, national, and international meetings.

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Mr Sultan Hassan is an award-winning, leading consultant plastic, reconstructive, breast and aesthetic surgeon at Elite Surgical. Awarded the title of Cosmetic Surgeon of the Year, by the Good Surgeon Guide in 2014, he performs up to 500 cosmetic surgeries a year and has over 17 years of experience in plastic surgery procedures. His areas of expertise include; breast surgery, facial surgery, body contouring surgery and rhinoplasty. His clinics are located in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Milton Keynes, Liverpool and South Yorkshire and offer the full range of cosmetic plastic surgery procedures, including breast lifts, tummy tucks, nose reconstruction and facelifts. 

A high academic achiever, he learnt from leading surgeons around the globe, from the United States, Canada, Brazil and the EU. After graduating from the University of Leeds in 1994, he went on to complete his specialist plastic surgery training, studying in Yorkshire, the Midlands and Northern England. He achieved fellowships in 1999 from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and holds a specialist fellowship in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. His qualifications are a testament to his surgical skills. 

A fully qualified GMC registered consultant plastic surgeon in the NHS since 2011, he runs private clinics at many locations around the country, such as Weymouth Street Hospital, BMI The Priory Hospital, Edgbaston and Elements MediSpa, Doncaster. He is the medical director and lead plastic surgeon for Elite Surgical, and the chief medical officer of the British Boxing Board of Control. 

Aside from his extensive work experience, Mr Sultan lectures nationally and on the international stage. He is the medical director of The Primary Care Training Academy and has 16 years of experience training GP's in minor surgeries and training junior surgeons to become future consultant plastic surgeons. 

Mr Sultan has helped people transform their lives and regain their self-confidence. It is his expert skills and premium quality care offered by his team at Elite Surgical that has many celebrities seeking his treatment. He has treated the likes of Charlotte Crosby and Holly Hagan, among others. Mr Sultan is widely known, trusted and respected, with numerous plastic surgery articles to his name. He has appeared in the Daily Mail, Now Magazine, Ok magazine and Heat magazine and has made a number of TV appearances on SKY TV and Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies. 

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Mr Robert Almeyda is a highly-qualified consultant adult and paediatric ENT specialist based in Reading, with over 25 years of experience. He is an expert in numerous ENT conditions and treatments, with his areas of expertise including septorhinoplasty, paediatric ENT, allergic rhinitis, smell disorders, facial plastic surgery and skin cancer on the face.
 
Mr Almeyda currently practises privately at The ENT Consultancy at The Forbury Clinic in Reading. Since 2012, he has held the appointment of consultant ENT surgeon at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust before joining the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in 2017.
 
Mr Almeyda has an impressive educational background. He first graduated with a BSc from University College London in 1994, before going on to receive his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from St Bartholomew’s Medical School in 1997. He has also received an MSc in Surgical Sciences and a Diploma from Imperial College London, and was awarded his FRCS ORL HNS from the Royal College of Surgeons in 2008.
 
He received specialised ENT training in the Oxford Deanery and completed Rhinology fellowships at two prestigious institutions: The Royal National Throat, Nose, and Ear Hospital in London and The Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam. Through these fellowships, he gained expertise in advanced endoscopic sinus surgery techniques, revision rhinoplasty and the reconstruction of the nose and ear after skin cancer removal.

In addition to his clinical work, Mr Almeyda is also renowned for his medical research, having published numerous articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is a member of the British Rhinological Society, the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and the Royal Society of Medicine.

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Mr Hisham Abouzeid is a highly-experienced and respected consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist based in Cheadle, Rochdale and Salford, as well as Wythenshawe in Manchester. He specialises in treatment for ovarian cysts, heavy menstrual loss and pelvic pain alongside labiaplasty, vaginoplasty and vaginal prolapse procedures. He privately practises at The Alexandra Hospital, The Highfield Hospital and Oaklands Hospital, in addition to The Pines Hospital. His NHS base is Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Mr Abouzeid has over 25 years of gynaecological practice, developing skills and expertise in various gynaecological subspecialties, alongside the ones mentioned above, such as female sterilisation reversal, oophorectomy and menopause. He has an impressive educational background that reflects his revered career, with an MBBCh from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, and an MSc in Advanced Gynaecological Endoscopy from the University of Surrey. 

Further to these esteemed qualifications, Mr Abouzeid has received the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' (RCOG) certificate in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, accreditation for colposcopy from the British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (BSCCP), and underwent RCOG's advanced training in gynaecological ultrasonography.

Mr Abouzeid is a sought-after clinician with top leadership skills. He is the lead for gynaecological endoscopy at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, lead for gynaecological oncology at Rochdale Infirmary and the lead gynaecologist for Greater Manchester Clinical and Treatment Centres (CATS). 

Mr Abouzeid is a member of several professional organisations, which include the Royal College of Obstetricians (MRCOG), British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE), European Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE), alongside the BSCCP.  

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Professor Yirupaiahgari Viswanath is a highly revered consultant general, upper GI (gastrointestinal), laparoscopic and endoscopic surgeon with practice in Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough.

With over 30 years of experience, Professor Viswanath specialises in a range of gastrointestinal conditions, including hernias (inguinal hernia, sportsman’s hernia, incisional hernia), gallstones, inflammatory bowel disease, oesophago-gastic cancer and acid reflux disorders. He is also an expert in advanced laparoscopic surgery and endoscopy procedures, such as dilation, radical cancer resections and EMR placement of stents, and regularly carries out upper GI assessments to examine benign and malignant structures. In the UK, he is a pioneer in STRETTA Therapy, a minimally invasive endoscopic procedure for gastroesophageal reflux.

Alongside his NHS work at South Tees Hospitals, Professor Viswanath currently sees private patients at Woodlands Hospital, Nuffield Health Tees Hospital and Tees Valley Hospital.

Professor Viswanath originally qualified from Mysore Medical College in 1989 before relocating to the UK. He completed post-graduate training at the prestigious Northern Deanery in Tyne and Tees and accomplished higher advanced laparoscopic surgery training in Leeds. Professor Viswanath worked for three years at the renowned northern oesophagi-gastric cancer unit in Newcastle upon Tyne and, as an expert in upper gastro-intestinal pathologies, later led the successful centralisation of oesophago-gastric cancer services in Teesside, South Durham and North Yorkshire.

In 2001, Professor Viswanath took up his consultant post at James Cook Hospital, one of the largest tertiary centres in the UK, where he also served as the upper-gastrointestinal oncology team lead, the chairman of the clinical governance committee for surgery, as well as the cancer lead clinician, overseeing all major onco-specialties at the hospital. He is also a UK-wide trainer for symposia’s in endoscopic, laparoscopic and robotic surgery and programme director for postdoctoral MCh surgery specialties.

As a national leader in his specialty, Professor Viswanath’s excellent standards of practice have also been recognised with various accolades, including the distinguished National Clinical Excellence Award in 2011, 2015 and 2018, and the National HSJ Award. He is also recognised by his medical professional peers as well, with elected representative posts for laparoscopic surgery at the British Benign Upper GI Surgical Society and the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Dr James Andrew Robinson is a top gastroenterologist based in Manchester, who specialises in treating diarrhoea, acid reflux, indigestion, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), among others. Well-versed in all aspects of gastroenterology, his expertise has led to his appointment to several prominent positions in his field, including Clinical Director for Gastroenterology, Respiratory Medicine and Palliative Care at Salford Royal Hospital, as well as being named Core Medical Training Director for North West Deanery and Associate Regional Advisor to the Royal College of Physicians.

Dr Robinson graduated from Oxford University and worked there before returning to the North-West, where he underwent further training. He then completed a PhD before gaining the position of Consultant Gastroenterologist at Hope Hospital. In 2001, he was appointed to the same position at Salford Royal and became an honorary clinical lecturer at Manchester University. 

Dr Robinson believes in a patient-centric approach, emphasising the importance of making information as accessible as possible to the patient, encouraging them to take part in the decision-making process, and guiding them in self-management of certain gastroenterolological problems.

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Professor Kallol Ray Chaudhuri is an exceptionally well-regarded consultant neurologist who currently practices at Dementech Neurosciences, a London-based private boutique practice that specialises in neurology, psychology and psychiatry. He specialises primarily in general neurology and Parkinson's disease, and is the current medical director of the Parkinson Foundation International Centre of Excellence at King's College London.

Professor Chaudhuri, who is also a professor of neurology/movement disorders at King's College London, is today widely considered a world leader when it comes to non-motor aspects of people-based research concerning Parkinson's disease. in 2018, he was rewarded for his excellent, ground-breaking research in the field of nonmotor Parkinson's disease, a year after he received an award for outstanding research leadership from the esteemed Royal College of Physicians London. 

The revered consultant neurologist and Parkinson's disease specialist is also a member of the Nervous System's Committee of the National Institute of Health Research, co-editor in chief of the Nature Group Nature Parkinson's disease journal, as well as being the current co-chairman of the appointments committee of the Movement Disorders Society and chairman of the MDS Non-motor Study Group. He has, to-date, written over 330 papers and is co-editor of four books specifically relating to restless legs syndrome and Parkinson's disease. 

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​Dr Oliver Guttmann is the Consultant Cardiologist for Inherited and Inflammatory Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the Wellington Hospital and Golders Green Outpatients and Diagnostics Centre, all located in London. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London.

Dr Guttmann sees patients related to all areas of adult cardiology (high blood pressure, high cholesterol and palpitations) for which he has a special interest in chest pain/angina management and coronary intervention, including  angiography and stenting. Dr Guttmann also specialises in inherited cardiac conditions, especially hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and the management of myocarditis.

Dr Guttmann studied medicine at Cambridge University and University College London. Following this, he was awarded both his membership of the Royal College of Physicians and Dr.med qualification from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany in 2008.

His research in atrial fibrillation and stroke in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which was funded by the British Heart Foundation, gained him his MD (Res) degree from the University College London in 2016. Dr Guttmann completed his cardiology training at the London Chest Hospital, Heart Hospital and Barts Heart Centre in 2017.

He publishes routinely in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and has written medical articles on inherited inflammatory heart muscle disease, risk stratification in cardiomyopathy and outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention. He is the Clinical Lead of the Coronary Care Unit at Barts Heart Centre and is a member of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and the Working Group on Pericardial and Myocardial Disease of the European Society of Cardiology.

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