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Mr Tofunmi Oni is a leading consultant orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in hip and knee procedures, including hip replacement, knee replacement, meniscus tear repair, knee arthroscopy and revision hip replacement. In addition, he is also an expert in knee injections. Alongside his NHS work at East Kent Hospitals, Mr Oni’s current practice is in Margate, Ashford, Canterbury and Tunbridge Wells.

Mr Oni qualified from the University of Warwick and then completed his specialist training in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex rotation. He later went on to accomplish a full hip and knee arthroscopy fellowship in Sydney, Australia where he acquired in-depth experience in complex techniques and computer-assisted surgery, practising alongside first-class surgeons.

With a passion for hip and knee surgery, Mr Oni continually works to increase surgical precision and outcomes, and is thus, actively involved in research which analyses focused patient responses following intervention. Additionally, he is also a member of several orthopaedic organisations, including the British Hip Society and the British Association for Surgery of the Knee, which support the development of premier patient care.

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Dr David Shortland is a highly-experienced consultant paediatrician based in Bournemouth who treats children with all types of medical problems. His areas of expertise lie in all aspects of general paediatric care including respiratory problems, urinary abnormalities, gastro-oesophageal reflux, headaches and abdominal pain.

Dr Shortland has over 30 years' of experience as a consultant diagnosing and treating children. He currently practises privately at Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital. Alongside his NHS duties, he has also had significant national roles, developing policies and setting important standards for paediatric services across the UK.

After training in Bristol, Great Ormond Street, Leicester and Nottingham hospitals, he became accredited in general paediatrics and neonatology. He was the neonatal clinical lead for 10 years and a clinical director for 15 years at Poole Hospital.

In addition to his consultancy position, Dr Shortland has had senior roles in the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. These have included the National Workforce Officer, the Vice President for Health Policy and the Clinical Lead for the National Invited Review service. As a member of both the Neonatal Society and the Paediatric Society and as part of his NHS and research posts, he has published extensively in many paediatric and neonatal medical journals.

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Miss Katherine George is an highly-regarded consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon based in London. Having qualified with distinction in her medical degree, Miss George has won multiple academic and clinical awards and prizes throughout her career. Following her higher surgical training she completed a fellowship in Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery with a focus on facelift and facial rejuvenation. 

Miss George also has advanced training in salivary gland disease management, and was the first person in the world to use intracorporeal lithotripsy to break salivary gland stones to avoid invasive surgery. This is an advanced technique that is still not widely available. Miss George is one of the few surgeons in the UK that is able to offer minimally invasive salivary gland surgery, and is part of a specialist salivary gland team. She is the surgical lead for salivary gland surgery for the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons. 

Alongside her clinical practice, Miss George is also an advanced trauma life support instructor, and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles for medical journals.

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Professor Parag Singhal is a consultant physician and endocrinologist. In the field of endocrinology and metabolic medicine, his special interests lie in all aspects of diabetes, including diabetic foot, thyroid disease and reproductive medicine. He is available for consultations and treatment at the private practices of Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital, The Waterside Suite, Weston General Hospital and The Chesterfield Clinic, Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital.

Professor Singhal received his initial medical training in India at Jiwaji University before moving to the UK where he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1995. Following this, he gained further training in the US, after which he received his higher specialist training in Newcastle. He received his postgraduate MPhil at the University of Newcastle in 2002 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2004. Since 2000 he has worked as a consultant at Weston Hospital, which is part of the Bristol Teaching Hospital.

Professor Singhal was heavily involved in a project to offer remote assistance to junior doctors in India, to help manage the COVID-19 crisis in the country. Using a telemedicine tool, Professor Singhal, as secretary of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) offered virtual consultation to doctors in India to help fight the second wave of the coronavirus, and to assist the doctors on their ward rounds. 

Professor Singhal has published many research papers. His past research involves insulin resistance and retinopathy. 

His main areas of focus are the thyroid and thyroid conditions, especially hypothyroidism. He has a large cohort of patients he has successfully treated using a combination of therapies, and as such he has patients who travel to see him from all over the country for help with their thyroid condition. Professor Singhal has high patient satisfaction scores and has received many awards that reflect his attention to improving patient care.
 

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Dr Daniel Krell is a highly regarded oncology consultant. He specialises in gastrointestinal, colorectal, pancreatic, hepatic, and biliary duct cancers, as well as neuroendocrine tumours. He possesses extensive expertise in employing chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. Dr Krell also oversees patients with cancer of an undisclosed origin and leads in a clinical capacity in this domain.

Within the Royal Free Trust, he collaborates as a member of the multidisciplinary team handling gastro-oesophageal and hepatobiliary cancer cases. Moreover, he serves as the clinical head for neuroendocrine tumour oncology at The Royal Free Hospital.

He underwent his oncology training at University College and the Royal Free Hospitals in London. In addition to his primary medical degree, he achieved a bachelor's degree in immunology and microbiology, alongside a DPhil in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford's Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. The funding for his research came from Cancer Research UK and HCA. His study focused on constructing models to explore the influence of genetic mutations in genes controlling cellular metabolism on cancer development, with potential implications for the identification of novel therapeutic targets in this field.

Dr Krell continues to be actively involved in clinical research and trials aimed at discovering groundbreaking cancer therapies, with a specific focus on gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, and neuroendocrine tumours. He has written several peer-reviewed papers and presented his findings at national and international conferences.

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Mr Somaiah Aroori is a vastly experienced consultant general, laparoscopic, hepato-pancreato-biliary and transplant surgeon based in Plymouth. He is a specialist in laparoscopic surgical procedures involving the gallbladder, bile duct, liver, pancreas, duodenum, hernias in the groin, umbilicus, adrenal glands and kidneys. He chooses laparoscopic surgery due to it being less invasive, associated with less pain, offering faster recovery, and lower infection rates.

He completed his medical qualifications in his native India, achieving bachelors degrees in both medicine and surgery before gaining a masters in general surgery from the best medical institution in India, The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Mr Aroori then moved to the UK and trained in general surgery, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery in Birmingham and Cambridge.

In 2011, Mr Aroori started his general, HPB , and renal transplant surgical consultant job at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. Since then he has been involved in over 1000 laparoscopic gallbladder operations (with no bile duct injuries) 600 hernia operations, 600 complex liver, pancreas, and bile duct operations for tumours, and several hundred other general surgical operations.

Mr Aroori is an active contributor in numerous research projects and medical investigations. He is the chief investigator for the multi-centre study called " RAW - Recurrence After Whipple " study and UK wide study called the ALICE study. He is an examiner for both MRCS and FRCS. He has developed and organised several surgically courses both for the postgraduate and consultant surgeons. He is honorary fellow of Plymouth University. He also tutored undergraduate and postgraduate medical students on a range of courses as well as regularly writing and contributing to numerous medical publications.

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Professor Khurshid Akhtar is an extensively trained consultant general and upper GI (gastrointestinal) surgeon who is renowned for his skill.

He has a sub-specialist interest in the surgical management of gallstones, hiatus hernia, heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and Barrett’s oesophagus. He performs a large number of complex stomach and oesophageal surgery in his NHS practice and in his private practice, which includes oesophageal cancer and stomach cancer surgery. 

Professor Akhtar's routinely performed surgical procedures include advanced laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery as well as open surgery. He takes into account the personal wishes and requirements of each patient in order to provide the best possible outcomes for each patient. 

The majority of Professor Akhtar's postgraduate surgical training took place in the North West of England. His ambition for his sub-speciality led him to specialist centres in Japan and the US for further training. In 2000 he began working as a consultant surgeon in the Pennine NHS Trust, and later joined Salford Royal University Teaching Hospital in 2010. Currently, patients can access his private surgical care at his clinics in BMI The Alexandra Hospital, Spire Manchester Hospital and The Wilmslow Hospital.

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Professor Elizabeth Lightstone is an esteemed consultant nephrologist operating in London. She specialises in chronic kidney disease, nephritis and kidney disease in women both during and pre-pregnancy. Professor Lightstone has been involved in a number of research projects and clinical trials to attempt to find better solutions to the management of conditions in her field, and has written many peer-reviewed articles in medical journals.

Professor Lightstone has also set up and managed a number of clinics for women with kidney disease. Alongside her clinical practice, Professor Lightstone is dedicated to education, and holds a number of posts teaching medical students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. 

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Dr Edwin Ugoh is a top consultant psychiatrist based in Essex and London. He has specialist experience in the assessment and management of a variety of mental health disorders including clinical depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, alcohol and drug addictions and dual diagnosis (co-existing mental health and addiction).

Dr Ugoh graduated in 1993 from the University of Lagos, Nigeria before moving to England. He then carried out further psychiatry training in London and Hertfordshire and later became a specialist in general adult and substance misuse psychiatry. He has an MSc from University of Hertfordshire in 2010.

He has worked as a senior doctor across both the private and public sector and since 2018, he has been working as a consultant in general adult and addiction psychiatry in Essex Partnership University Partnership Foundation NHS Trust. He provides clinical leadership for substance misuse teams in West and South Essex. Dr Ugoh is currently a consultant with visiting privileges to the Priory Chelmsford. Therefore, he has access to a well-resourced and established pool of clinicians. He provides treatment and care for both self-funded patients and those with medical insurance.

Dr Ugoh offers a recovery-focused approach. He strongly believes in a collaborative approach to his treatments, ensuring his patients are fully involved in their treatment plans and recovery.

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Mr Will Sarakbi is a highly respected consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon. He specialises in both aesthetic and cancer breast surgery. He has over 10 years of experience in the field of aesthetic breast surgery and has performed over 1,000 breast augmentations and 600 breast reductions. His private practice is based at Shirley Oaks Hospital and the prestigious Cadogan clinic in Chelsea.

Mr Sarakbi qualified from St George’s, The University of London in 2001. After completing his basic surgical training in the South East of England, he spent some time in full-time research focusing on breast cancer biology and examining the role of molecular markers, such STS and OATP as prognostic indicators in breast cancer. He was awarded a masters degree in surgery from the University of London shortly after completing this research.

Impressively, Mr Sarakbi's research work has generated over 22 papers in peer-reviewed journals to date, and he has presented his findings in national and international conferences in the UK, Europe, and the USA. Mr Sarakbi continued his higher surgical training in the London Deanery, spending almost two years at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital. He was elected to the post of president of the National Breast Trainees Association (The Mammary Fold) in 2010, and subsequently to the post of president of the Surgical Oncology Trainees Association (SOTA) two years later.

Mr Sarakbi was notably selected for the prestigious national Aesthetic and Reconstructive Fellowship, which provided him with world-class training in both cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery. He also spent time training in France at the Leon-Bérard Centre in Lyon, working with internationally renowned reconstructive surgeons, where he mastered advanced techniques in breast reconstruction and cosmetic breast surgery, including lipomodelling (fat transfer).

He mainly specialises in breast enlargement, breast implant replacement, breast lift, breast reconstruction, breast reduction, and nipple reduction. Mr Sarakbi is a present member of the Intensity-Modulated Partial Organ Radiotherapy Trial (IMPORT) trial management group, one of the largest currently running radiotherapy trials in the UK funded by Cancer Research UK, investigating new techniques of delivering radiotherapy in breast cancer.

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