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Dr Pablo Robles is a highly respected psychologist with over 10 years of experience, who is renowned for his expertise in cognitive-behavioural psychology and emotional intelligence. Throughout his professional trajectory, Pablo has specialised in anxiety, self-esteem and emotional regulation, as well as depression and low mood and obsessive or repetitive thoughts. He also has experience in improving social, emotional and work relationships.
 
Pablo, who sees private patients via e-Consultation, qualified in psychology from the University of Murcia in Spain. He is a member of the Official College of Psychology of the Region of Murcia, and also obtained a Master’s Degree in Health Psychology and Clinical Practice from UCAM University in 2014, acquiring proficiency in the therapeutic treatment of mental health conditions and disorders.
 
Pablo has additionally complemented his formal education with clinical practice, and completed his higher specialty psychology training at some of Spain’s most established hospitals. Notably, this included University General Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, as part of the Dementia Unit, and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit at University Children´s Hospital Niño Jesús in Madrid.
 
In his work, Pablo develops a therapy based on understanding what is happening to each person, helping them overcome their fears, and discovering their strengths. That´s why he practices empirical psychology, focused on the patient, helping them understand what is happening and why, and guiding them in the steps to improve their emotional, social, and personal situation. In this way, therapists guide the patient, seeking the path that allows them to understand themselves better, and to know themselves, so that they can live more satisfyingly in the different aspects that make up their lives.

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Dr Luigi De Michele is a leading consultant specialist in internal medicine based in Marylebone, London, who specialises in diagnosis of patients with non-specific symptoms, a holistic approach in complex patients and comprehensive geriatric assessment in the elderly, alongside management of medical comorbidities and management of polypharmacy. He privately practises at M.I.A.L Clinic while his NHS base is Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Dr De Michele, who focuses on providing prevention, holistic and comprehensive assessment, and disease diagnosis, has an MD from La Sapienza at the University of Rome, Italy, and went on to specialise in internal medicine there. After this he went on to work as a consultant in the Emergency Department within the University of Tor Vergata, Rome, before relocating to the UK. 

Dr De Michele prides himself in his caring manner, and has significant experience in the management of frailty in elderly and younger patients with comorbidities. He set up an early diagnosis of cancer service dedicated to patients with non-specific symptoms at Guy's Hospital in 2016, while he is currently a consultant at a similar service at King George Hospital for Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, which he set up. 

Dr De Michele also has international experience of practising internal medicine and elderly care, undertaking international missions in rural hospitals in Africa as well as international training in medicine and elderly care in Catalonia and Sri Lanka. He's a member of the Pan London RDC group and dedicated trainer of both GPs and Advance Nurse Practitioners. 

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Professor Waqar Bhatti is an esteemed consultant musculoskeletal radiologist with over 25 years' experience. He is renowned for his work in musculoskeletal radiology in sports radiology and his areas of expertise also include breast imaging and interventional radiology.

His medical studies and training began at the University of Manchester. This is where he received his MBChB in 1992 and in 1996, Professor Bhatti completed his surgical training and gained the FRCS (Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons) qualification. From this point, he continued his studies with a focus on musculoskeletal and sports radiology and proceeded to gain his DMRD (Diploma in Medical Radio-Diagnosis) from Liverpool in 2001 and the FRCR (Fellowship Royal College of Radiologists) qualification. Over the years, he has continued to hone his skills and gain leading expertise in his field. 

He has gained many achievements throughout his career. Professor Bhatti was made the youngest professor of radiology from the University of Salford at the age of 43, in which he runs an orthopaedic radiology course twice a year, and in 2001 he developed the first comprehensive musculoskeletal ultrasound service in Manchester. What's more, he has won several prizes locally and internationally for his clinical research. He was also involved in the care of 2012 Olympic athletes, including the British Taekwondo and swimming teams, as the only North West Radiology representive and has been the lead radiologist for Manchester United and Manchester City FC since 2006.

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Mr Zafar Maan is a leading consultant urological Surgeon in Colchester who is part of the highly-experienced team of urologists at Anglian Urology Associates. He treats a wide variety of urological conditions including benign prostate enlargement, kidney stones, erectile dysfunction, haematuria (or blood in the urine), both male and female urological problems and paediatric urology. He undertakes circumcision, prostate cancer and testicular cancer diagnostics and vasectomy. Mr Maan has a specialist interest in minimally-invasive kidney stone surgery and laser prostate surgery.

Mr Maan runs a men’s health service, which uses a holistic approach to diagnose a wide range of medical and surgical conditions early, helping to promote longevity and health into later life.

He completed his specialist urology training across Cambridge, London and Essex and gained a Masters in Urological Surgery from University College London. Mr Maan completed a fellowship in Stone Surgery and Endourology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London, one of few institutions to be accredited internationally by the American Urology Association and the European Association of Urology. He completed an MA in Clinical Education in 2014.

Mr Maan is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. 

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Mrs Monika Vij is a leading consultant gynaecologist and subspecialist urogynaecologist based in South Wales specialising in prolapse, pelvic pain, general urogynaecology, urinary incontinence and recurrent UTIs. Mrs Vij is the only accredited sub-specialist in urogynaecology in Wales and performs a wide range of surgical procedures for complex prolapse and incontinence, which includes all non-mesh procedures.

Mrs Vij graduated from Kanpur University, India in 1996 and obtained postgraduate training with a master's in obstetrics and gynaecology. She then moved to the UK to undergo further postgraduate training in obstetrics and gynaecology. She later went on to complete full training in general gynaecology and urogynaecology in London, Bristol and Plymouth.

Mrs Vij is dedicated to teaching, regularly sharing her skills with junior surgeons and is also the deputy trainer of the sub-speciality training programme in urogynaecology in Wales. She takes on a multi-disciplinary approach when treating her patients and actively works alongside specialist pelvic floor physiotherapists and continence nurses.

She is on the committee of the Welsh Pelvic Health Implementation Group and holds many prestigious memberships, including with the British Society of Urogynaecologists, International Continence Society and International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

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Miss Tadiparthi is an award-winning, top plastic surgeon who has been featured extensively in the media. Her personal website can be found here.

Sujatha has over 15 years of experience in the field of plastic surgery and she is one of the few female plastic surgeons offering private cosmetic surgery in central London, Surrey and Kent. Her education, training and plastic surgery accreditation have all been in the UK. 

Sujatha has shared her expertise in multiple media appearances on TV, radio and print. She was one of only two plastic surgeons featured in the revolutionary E4 series called, ‘Send Nudes: Body SOS’, where she gave advice to contestants considering plastic surgery procedures.

Miss Tadiparthi and her team are award-winning, being recently awarded ‘Best Plastic Surgery Clinic’ in the London and South East area by the Prestige Awards. She has also received clinical excellence awards by Top Doctors and iwantgreatcare for the high quality of care that she provides to her patients. 

Sujatha has excellent patient reviews which can be seen on her  iwantgreatcare and Trustpilot profiles. She has warm and friendly nature so her patients feel very comfortable in her presence to share their concerns. The procedures she offers are individualised and tailored to suit each patient’s particular needs and expectations. As a member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), she endeavours to provide the safest and best possible care to her patients. Sujatha only works at reputable and well-established clinics and hospitals.

Miss Tadiparthi specialises in breast surgery (including breast reduction, augmentation, breast uplift with and without implants), body contouring surgery (including tummy tuck and liposuction), post major weight loss surgery (such as arm lift, thigh lift, lower body lift), as well as minor skin surgery (moles, cysts, lipomas, split ear lobes).
 
Miss Tadiparthi’s training and background:

Sujatha graduated from Cardiff medical school in 2002 and completed her basic surgical training by 2008. Her passion for plastic and reconstructive surgery led her to undertake training and follow a career in this field. By 2013, Sujatha completed her specialist plastic surgery training in the UK and passed the plastic surgery examination by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCS plas) in 2013. Following this, she gained further specialised training in breast surgery, breast and limb reconstruction and microsurgery.

A prestigious cosmetic fellowship at the London Wellington Hospital allowed her to work with some leading cosmetic surgeons in London and gain a wide breadth of training in cosmetic surgery including breast, facial and body contouring procedures. After gaining a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in the UK, she was entered into the UK’s General Medical Council (GMC) specialist register for plastic surgery in 2014.
An active involvement in plastic surgical research throughout her career led her to publish 6 book chapters and 22 journal articles with presentations at over 75 national and international surgical meetings.

Miss Tadiparthi’s extensive specialist plastic surgery training in the UK has allowed her to gain considerable experience in cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgical techniques. She often combines these two complementary fields to get the best possible outcome for her patients.
 

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Mr Sinan Barazi is a leading London-based​ pituitary, skull base, trigeminal neuralgia/facial pain and spinal neurosurgeon. He was born in Copenhagen and subsequently moved to the United Kingdom where he attended Winchester College.

He qualified from King’s College Hospital School of Medicine in 1996, after which he completed his French military service in the 14th Parachute Regiment in Toulouse. He completed his surgical training in London at the Atkinson Morley Hospital, King’s College Hospital, and St George’s Hospital.

After finishing his specialist training, he worked in Bologna, Italy, as a fellow in endoscopic pituitary surgery under Giorgio Frank and Ernesto Pasquini, and finally in Manchester as a skull base fellow under Professor Andrew King and Scott Rutherford. He was appointed consultant skull base neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2011.

He is a core member of the Skull Base, Pituitary and Complex Facial Pain multi-disciplinary teams and he has established the Complex Facial Pain service with Dr Giorgio Lambru across the King’s College Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital sites. He has published extensively in major neurosurgical journals and has presented at national and international meetings on a range of topics including pituitary, skull base and facial pain surgery. 

Mr Barazi is a member of several professional organisations including the British Skull Base Society (BSBS) (where he has just completed three years as a council member), the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS) and the Royal College of Surgeons. He is the lead for the Royal College of Surgeons accredited Senior Fellowship in Skull Base, Pituitary and Facial Pain service at King’s College Hospital.

He was appointed joint chair of the Medical Advisory Board of the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association of the United Kingdon in 2023 alongside Dr Giorgio Lambru. His private practice is at the Harley Street Clinic, Cromwell Hospital, Chiswick Medical Centre, and the Guthrie Clinic at King's College Hospital. He is fluent in English, French, Danish, German and Swedish.

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Mr Andrew Logan is a highly-experienced orthopaedic hand surgeon in Cardiff who specialises in hand and wrist surgery. His elective and trauma practise exclusively involves conditions and injuries affecting the hand and wrist, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, Dupuytren's contracture, wrist pain, trigger finger and arthritis of the hand.

Mr Logan developed his areas of expertise during six years of registrar training and spent three of those years in specialist hand training posts. The final year of training was at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre in Derby. It is an internationally renowned centre of excellence where Mr Logan received advanced training in hand and wrist surgery.

From his appointment in 2007 as a consultant hand surgeon, Mr Logan has established a specialist surgical practise that is supported by a team of specialist hand therapists.

Mr Logan is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Hand Surgery. He has written chapters on wrist fractures for orthopaedic textbooks. He sat as Chair of the Committee the organises and runs the British Diploma in Hand surgery between 2017 and 2020 and continued to work as past Chair and Chief Examiner until 2023.

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Dr Malcolm Finlay is a highly-esteemed and leading consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist based in London. He is a renowned expert in the ablation of atrial fibrillation, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) insertion and management, cardiac resynchronisation therapy insertion (bivent ICD), pacemaker insertion and management, and implantable loop recorder insertion. He manages patients with all types of heart rhythm problems.  

In a medical career spanning over two decades, Dr Finlay has performed one of the highest volumes of catheter ablation procedures, and implantations of pacemakers and ICDs in London. He has used his expertise in his field to develop award-winning, highly efficient, and safe cardiac devices which have radically changed cardiology and helped heart patients tremendously.  

Dr Finlay grew up in Cardiff. He graduated from Oxford University in 2001, earning a BM BCh in Medicine, and gained experience training in London's best hospitals. In 2014, he completed his PhD in Cardiac Electrophysiology from University College London, conducting research into how mental stress can harm heart rhythm problems. As a PhD candidate, he held a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship. 

 In 2014, Dr Finlay was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre and Queen Mary University of London. He currently also practises at OneWelbeck and Whipps Cross Hospital. He performs a full range of electrophysiology (EP) procedures and treatments, assessing and treating the heart’s electrical system or activity.  

Dr Finlay is a Reader at the Queen Mary University of London and an Honorary Senior Lecturer and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at University College London. He also holds an honorary position at the Queen Mary University of London. He is actively involved in academic research and engages with the medical engineering and science departments at these institutions to develop the most advanced technological devices, improving the lives of cardiac disease patients. He has invented several patented technologies, such as STAR™ mapping and Epicardio Simulation™, real-time 4D cardiac simulation, and the world's first for education and training purposes. He has been recognised by the European Heart Rhythm Association’s Innovation committee for his outstanding contributions in the field.  

Dr Finlay holds the position of Chief Medical Officer at Echopoint Medical, a company developing manufactures, and commercialises innovative devices striving to improve minimally invasive procedures and reducing the cost and complications for cardiovascular patients (he has been involved in developing all-optical ultrasound, a new imaging technique suitable for minimally invasive procedures in collaboration with UCL Medical Physics Department). 

He has published numerous papers and spoken at international conferences. He is a faculty member of several national and international academic conferences, such as the Heart Rhythm Congress and the EHRA. 

His patients' well-being is at the heart of Dr Finlay's work. Approaching each case individually, choices are made with his patients to provide optimum, satisfactory, and quick care. Safety is a huge concern of his and he has introduced many concepts from his extra-curricular aviation skills to achieve positive, successful results. 

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Dr Regina Sala is an experienced consultant psychiatrist in London who specialises in both adult and child psychiatry. Her areas of expertise include ADHD, autism, spectrum disorder, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders and its interlink with physical health.

Dr Sala graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Barcelona in 2003. She then trained in General Psychiatry in Spain and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, USA, obtaining her registered specialist in 2008 and 2010. Dr Sala gained a master’s degree in Integrative Psychotherapy in 2008 and was awarded a PhD in Psychiatry by the University of Barcelona in 2011 with distinction with honours.

She has trained and worked in the most prestigious clinical and research medical centres, nationally and internationally, including the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Cornell University, and New York State Psychiatry Institute, Columbia University, USA.

Since 2017, Dr Sala holds a faculty appointment as an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the Centre for Psychiatry, Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry and the Queen Mary University of London.

Dr Sala has published over 60 scientific articles and book chapters, and invited Speaker to the most prestigious conferences worldwide. 

For further information, please check her website. 

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