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Mr Deep Malde is a consultant hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeon based at the University Hospitals of Leicester, providing specialist care to both private and NHS patients who have problems relating to the gallbladder, pancreas and liver across Leicestershire and its surrounding counties. He practises at the Nuffield Health Leicester, Spire Leicester, Woodland Hospital (Kettering) and Blakeland Hospitals (Milton Keynes) where he consults every week.

Mr Malde specialises in laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery for gallstones (cholecystectomy) and performs over 400 gallbladder operations annually. Mr Malde is a member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) for liver, pancreas and gallbladder cancers in Leicester. He also carries out major laparoscopic and open liver and pancreas surgery, predominantly for cancer. He has carried out over 10,000 gallbladder operations and over 500 liver and pancreas cancer operations.

Other interests include management of benign conditions such as liver and pancreatic cysts, in addition to pancreatitis (and its complications).He specialises in carrying out microwave ablation (destroying tumour cells using heat from microwaves) of liver tumours to help make previously inoperable disease operable and in patients with widespread neuroendocrine tumours, to improve prognosis and survival.

Furthermore, he specialises in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures such as endoscopic ultrasound scans (EUS). He has worked with centres across Europe to help pioneer Robotic HPB Surgery in Leicester.

Mr Malde’s work has been published in peer reviewed journals on various topics including gallbladder surgery, laparoscopic bile duct exploration, acute pancreatitis, colorectal liver metastases, pancreatic cancer surgery in the elderly and pancreatoduodenal trauma. He has presented at over a hundred national and international meetings.

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Dr Rima Clayton is a leading consultant dermatologist based in Reading with over 20 years’ experience who specialises in both adult and paediatric dermatology, offering solutions for a wide range of skin conditions, including acne scars, hyperhidrosis, and seborrhoeic dermatitis. As a specialist, she has particular expertise in dermatologic surgery for the treatment of skin cancers, such as melanoma.

Dr Clayton is one of the founders of the renowned Derma Reading dermatology clinic, where she currently consults privately. She originally qualified from Imperial College London in 1999, obtaining both her MBBS and an intercalated BSc in Clinical Sciences, and completed her higher specialist training in Oxford with focus on skin cancer management. Her further interest in paediatric dermatology was acquired later on, after undergoing additional training at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

In addition, Dr Clayton is on the GMC’s specialist register and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. She currently works and is a member of two skin cancer multidisciplinary teams at the Churchill Hospital and at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where she served as clinical lead as well in addition to her regular consultant duties. With a passion for dermatology, Dr Clayton is especially proud of the aesthetic results of her clinical practice, helping her patients to achieve nearly invisible scarring on many occasions.

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Mr Andrew Goldberg is an esteemed and highly experienced consultant orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in foot and ankle conditions. He is one of the UK’s leading experts in ankle replacements and his special interests also include ankle arthritis, ankle fusion, ankle sprains, cartilage repair, foot and ankle injuries, and achilles rupture, among many other conditions related to the foot and ankle. He currently practises privately at the London-based The Wellington Hospital. He was notably awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the Queen in 2011 for his exceptional, tireless, and ground-breaking service to medicine. 

His studies took place both in the UK and abroad, training in centres of excellence across the US and Europe alongside some of the most skilled surgeons in the field. His practice focuses on the needs of the patient, with exceptional care involving a multidisciplinary team of podiatrists, pilates instructors, physiotherapists, and orthotists. He regularly attends as faculty at numerous national and multinational meetings, and is widely published, having authored several best-selling textbooks including the Atlas of Ankle Replacements. 

He currently sits on the outcomes committee for BOFAS (The British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society), and holds the position of visiting Professor at Imperial College London and Associate Professor at University College London. He is a major contributor to his field of medicine, currently running a pioneering research program that explores regenerative treatments such as cartilage repair, and a clinical trial comparing ankle replacements against ankle fusion. The main procedures that Mr Goldberg has a significant amount of expertise in include ankle ligament reconstruction,  ankle replacement, cheilectomy, hammertoe correction, flatfoot correction, bunion surgery, mallet toe correction, as well as gait analysis, amongst many others.
 

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Professor Harminder Dua is a leading ophthalmologist who has made huge contributions to the specialty. He is based in Nottingham at BMI The Park Hospital and the Queens Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham. Here he sees patients for many eye problems, however, he specialises in cornea, ocular surface, cataract, refractive and lens surgery.

With more than 30 years of experience, Professor Dua is one of the United Kingdom's most notable ophthalmologists. In 2019 he was appointed as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to eye healthcare, health education and Ophthalmology, in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Professor Dua's discovery of the pre-Descemet's layer (Dua’s layer) in the anatomy of the cornea has improved corneal surgery and led to innovations in corneal procedures and shed new light on our understanding of corneal diseases. This is just one example of the massive influence Professor Dua has had in his field. He has been cited over seventeen thousand times and has more than 355 scientific publications to his name.

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Mr Antonio Manzelli is an extensively trained and highly skilled consultant general surgeon in Exeter with more than 15 years of professional expertise. His main surgical interests consist of upper GI (gastrointestinal) surgery and HPB (hepato-pancreatico-biliary) surgery.

He has gained experience in all common open and advanced laparoscopic procedures as well as vascular surgical procedures.  He also performs upper GI (gastrointestinal) endoscopy and surgery for gallstones, bile ducts, hernias, liver conditions and splenic cysts, pancreatic pseudocysts, stomach GISTs (gastrointestinal stromal tumours), spleen issues and conditions of the small bowel.

Mr Manzelli qualified with a PhD in Robotics at Tor Vergata University of Rome, a PhD in HPB at the University of Verona and an MSc in Day Surgery at the University of Venice. Later in his training, he specialized in the US with a fellowship in trauma at UPMC in Pittsburgh and a fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation at UIC in Chicago.

He worked as a consultant surgeon at Tor Vergata University of Rome Hospital before moving to the UK for a Fellowship in HPB at UOH in Oxford. In 2011, Mr Manzelli was appointed as a consultant hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust in 2011.

Private patients can access his first-rate surgical care in acclaimed clinics at the of Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital and the private patients' ward of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

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Mr Nav Johal is a leading consultant paediatric urologist based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and covers all areas of general paediatric urology including hydronephrosis, hypospadias, undescended testes, foreskin problems, urinary tract infections and vesicureteric reflux. Additionally he counsels parents born with prenatally diagnosed conditions affecting the kidney, bladder and genital anomalies.

Mr Johal obtained his primary medical qualification from Cardiff University and was appointed member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2003. He was additionally awarded a PhD in 2013 on congenital bladder anomalies from University College London. He completed several fellowships in specialised areas of paediatric urology at the internationally renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital as well as the Royal Marsden Hospital in bladder reconstruction. He was made a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2014 and has been based at Great Ormond Street as a consultant paediatric urologist since 2017. Additionally, he holds the position of clinical lead of service at University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust and is also a member of their prenatal nephro-urology counselling team.

Mr Johal is actively involved in research and has been previously been awarded numerous research fellowships. He is currently honorary associate professor at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and University College London. His academic work has been widely published in scientific journals and medical textbooks.

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Professor Robert MacLaren is a consultant ophthalmologist at Nuffield Health Oxford, The Manor Hospital, as well as at the renowned Oxford Eye Hospital. He also holds the position of Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford in the UK. He specialises in cataract surgery, retinal surgery, retinal diseases and genetic eye disorders.

In relation to his roles in the NHS, he trains ophthalmologists in retinal surgery and cataract surgery. His previous research has optimised biometric calculations for cataract surgery in extremely long and short eyes. He is experienced in the implantation of all varieties of intraocular lenses used in cataract surgery.  These include toric lenses, extended depth of focus lenses, multifocal lenses and in rare cases black diaphragm lenses. Internationally he trains surgeons in retinal gene therapy surgery and he has led many operations in the USA and across Europe.
 
In addition to his roles at Oxford, he holds the position of Honorary Professor of Ophthalmology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and served as an honorary consultant vitreoretinal surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. With a reputation for excellence and dedication to advancing the field of ophthalmology, he has been recognised as an NIHR Senior Investigator and NHS Gold Clinical Excellence Award. Professor MacLaren's contributions to the medical community are commendable, and his numerous fellowships are a testament to his expertise and commitment to the profession.
 
Professor MacLaren is a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and he is one of only a handful of UK ophthalmologists also to be a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.Furthermore, he served as the former King James IV Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His academic achievements have been recognised through his election as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, as well as being appointed as a Bodley Fellow of Merton College Oxford.

He is one of the first surgeons in the world to have made a successful retinal implant for visual prosthesis, sometimes described as creating: a 'bionic eye'. In 2016 he performed the world’s first eye operation using a remotely controlled robot. Key events of his work include world's first choroideremia gene therapy trial (2011), electronic retinal implant trials (2012/2015), robot-assisted eye surgery trial (2016), X-linked retinitis pigmentosa gene therapy trial (2017) and the world’s first gene therapy treatment for targeting the mechanism of age related macular degeneration (2019).
 
In the realm of clinical excellence, Professor MacLaren has been recognised with various prestigious awards. Notably, he has received the ARVO Camras Award for translational research, the RP Fighting Blindness Scientist of the Year award, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists Keeler Medal, and the Macular Society Clinical Service of the Year award. Such accolades underscore his commitment to advancing patient care and his exceptional contributions to the field of ophthalmology.
 
 

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Mr Miles Dickson is an expert plastic and reconstructive surgeon based in Hertfordshire and has been practicing since 1989. His areas of expertise include breast augmentation, breast reduction and breast uplift surgery.

As well as specialising in breast surgery, he also carries out abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) and rhinoplasty (nose reshaping). Mr Dickson also receives many patients requiring minor procedures, such as mole removal and to treat skins cancers and 'lumps and bumps'.

Mr Dickson received his bacheler degree from the University of London in 1975 and then went on to complete the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons qualification at Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1979. He then received additional training and received an Accreditation in Plastic Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1988.

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Mr Richard Carrington is a highly regarded consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in London who specialises in hip and knee surgery, including arthroscopy, ligament reconstruction, cartilage transplantation, sports injuries, and patellofemoral joint procedures. As a specialist, Mr Carrington is renowned for his expertise in robotic surgery, as well as custom and revision hip and knee replacements.

Mr Carrington, who consults privately at The Wellington Hospital, qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, University of London in 1989. He completed his higher surgical orthopaedic training at the acclaimed Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital before going on to accomplish fellowship training in joint reconstruction in Harvard, and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons for both trauma and orthopaedics. In 2018, Mr Carrington performed the first robotic-assisted total knee joint replacement surgery without the need for a CT scan in a hospital in Europe.

Additional to his specialised private practice, Mr Carrington is a consultant at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where he practises since 2003. He is a member of various recognised organisations, including the British Orthopaedics Association and the Revision Knee Working Group, and served as a clinical lecturer from 1999 to 2001. Mr Carrington has published extensively in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals.

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Professor Charles Malata is a British and American trained consultant plastic surgeon specialising in breast augmentation (boob jobs), abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), rhinoplasty (nose jobs), breast reconstruction after mastectomy (DIEP flap reconstruction), breast reduction, facelift and body contouring after weight loss. He is the most senior reconstructive breast plastic surgeon at the Cambridge Breast Unit at Addenbrooke's University Hospital, Cambridge and was also voted by his colleagues and peers as one of the top ten breast plastic surgeons in the country. He undertakes the full spectrum of cosmetic surgery both in Cambridge and Peterborough. His before and after photographs can be found in his extensive medical publications.

Professor Malata graduated from the University of Zambia Medical School in 1984 and then carried out his general surgical training on the Newcastle & Leeds University Hospital rotations. He underwent plastic surgery training at the prestigious and world famous Canniesburn Hospital in Glasgow obtaining the Intercollegiate FRCS in Plastic Surgery in 1997. He then took up substantive subspecialty fellowships in breast & cosmetic surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC and Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

He is a research professor (visiting professor) at Anglia Ruskin University School of Medicine and lectures both nationally and internationally on aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery and free flap surgery. He was the President of the European Society for Surgical Research (ESSR) in 2011-2013 and has an active academic and clinical research interest with over 280 publications and currently supervises research projects for PhD & MSc students, registrars and medical students. In addition, he works as an associate editor for Frontiers in Plastic Surgery and is an editorial board member of the European Surgical Research Journal and Gland Surgery Journal. He reviews for multiple professional journals.

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