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Mr Andrew Coombes is a consultant eye surgeon based in London, specialising in oculoplastic procedures, cosmetic ophthalmology and cataract surgery alongside blepharoplasty, outpatient eyelid surgery and dry eye. He also has top expertise in eye trauma. Mr Coombes privately practices at HCA UK at The Shard and London Bridge Hospital. His NHS base is at the Royal London Hospital for Barts Health NHS Trust. Here, he is the current lead consultant for the Adnexal (eyelid, tear drainage and orbital disorders) and cataract and corneal services.

Mr Coombes' clinical experience also extends to other top roles at the trust. He was the department lead clinician from 2004 to 2016 and Trust ophthalmology clinical director from 2012 to 2016. Now, he is the college tutor and education supervisor there.  

Mr Coombes is highly qualified, with an MBBS from St Bartholomew's Medical College (1991), where he won several prestigious prizes, and an immunology BSc from St Thomas' Hospital (1989).

After graduating from St Bartholomew's, he underwent further training in his subspecialisms via fellowships at Sydney Eye Hospital, Australia, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He also gained an even broader ophthalmic repertoire in glaucoma, medical retina and strabismus as well as paediatrics and neuro-ophthalmology subspecialities as part of the ophthalmology SpR Rotation at Moorfields Eye Hospital, St George's NHS Trust and the south west Thames region. 

Mr Coombes' clinical research has been published widely in scientific journals and as a sole author and contributor to several books, most notably in the field of cataract and trauma. He is actively involved in teaching both under- and post-graduates and is regularly invited to lecture, particularly on the subject of ocular and orbital trauma. He has also presented his findings for various respected associations in the ophthalmology field, including the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society (BOPSS). 

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Mr Bataung Mokete is a highly-skilled consultant ophthalmologist with advanced subspecialty training in surgical diseases of the retina, vitreous and macula. With his many years of training from renowned institutions and over 25 years' experience, Mr Mokete is able to provide the utmost care for a wide range of conditions.

He is highly skilled and regularly performs several procedures for retinal conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy (and it's complications) as well as retinal vein occlusions. He is also highly experienced in the management of vitreous diseases. His knowledge and skill encompass retinal detachment, epiretinal membranes and traction, macular holes, flashes and floaters. He also undertakes routine and complex cataract surgeries with the latest techniques and lenses.

Mr Mokete's extensive training began at the University of Bristol, where he achieved his undergraduate degree. He then pursued his higher surgical training in ophthalmology at the South Thames rotation of the London Deanery before undergoing advanced subspecialty training in medical retina at Moorfields at St George's Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He elected to undertake fellowship training for vitreoretinal surgery in Sussex Eye Hospital and at St Thomas' Hospital in London. 

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Dr Aarti Datta is a highly experienced and qualified consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist who possesses a specialist interest in ADHD, autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. Dr Datta is, at the moment, practising at the London Psychiatry Clinic. 

Dr Datta has worked within child and adolescent psychiatry since 2015, and has notably held multiple roles in high-risk and varied settings. She previously held the position as a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Priory Hospital in Southampton, where she established an in-house neurodevelopmental clinic, which was designed specifically to help children of various ages and backgrounds.

Dr Datta successfully completed her higher training in 2020 at the prestigious South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trustand worked within specialist teams at the King’s College Hospital Paediatric Liaison Unit. Dr Datta has a strong level of interest when it comes to mental health research and has published multiple clinical case reports in psychiatry journals. Not only that, but she has also presented at several mental health conferences.

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Dr Liam Parsonage is a highly skilled psychiatrist based in North London and Harley Street. He specialises in treating bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety, as well as a variety of other mental health disorders. He provides psychiatric evaluations of patients with sleep disorders or ADHD as well as assessments for a variety of circumstances, including occupational matters, such as fitness to return to work or early retirement; mitigating circumstances in university performance; and immigration matters. He often provides medicolegal psychiatric reports as an expert witness in court cases.

Dr Parsonage qualified from University College London Medical School and trained in the NHS before working as a consultant psychiatrist in community health services, holding the position of medical lead for Community Services in NW Surrey for two years. He is dual-accredited in general adult and old-age psychiatry, and is an approved clinician under the Mental Health Act, and also approved under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act. 

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Dr Tarun Solanki is a highly-experienced consultant physician in general and geriatric medicine based at the Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital.He specialises in all aspects of geriatric care, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease, perioperative care of the elderly, Parkinson’s disease, falls and funny turns and stroke.

After graduating from the University of Wales, Cardiff he specialised in geriatrics and completed a master's degree in gerontology at King’s College London. In 2002, he was nominated a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London. He is currently the Chair of the England Council of the British Geriatrics Society.

Dr Solanki has a research interest in vitamin D and bone disease and as a geriatrician, he has a vast amount of experience in managing complex patients with multiple organ diseases. He set up and oversaw the osteoporosis service for the Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust and also developed an award-winning orthogeriatric service. He was also awarded the National Osteoporosis Foundation Gold Star for the Fracture Liaison Service he set up.

He is passionate about patient safety and quality of care and was the British Geriatrics Society Lead for Quality and Safety. He has a keen interest in education and training of doctors having been responsible for the education supervision of numerous specialist registrars in geriatrics, many of whom now practice as consultants. He is also an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians.

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Mr Michael Athanassacopoulos is a leading consultant spinal surgeon who specialises in back pain, neck pain and sciatica alongside scoliosis, arm pain and cervical injections. He privately practises at Sheffield Orthopaedics Ltd, a clinic at the Spire Claremont Hospital, while his NHS base is Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Mr Athanassacopoulos did his orthopaedic training at Glasgow, Swansea and  the General Hospital of Athens ‘KAT’, the major trauma centre of Athens, Greece in 2011.

Mr Athanassacopoulos initially specialised in orthopaedics in 2011, and then in specialised in Adult and Paediatric Spinal Surgery. He has completed fellowships in paediatric deformity surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital, adult and paediatric spinal surgery at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Sheffield Children's Hospital, and in Bordeaux, France.

Mr Athanassacopoulos, who also specialises in microdiscectomy for back and leg pain, spinal decompression for back and leg pain, spinal fusion for back and leg pain and Cervical surgery for arm pain, has had his research published in various peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of several professional organisations including the British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS), AO Spine International and the College of Greek Orthopaedic Surgeons. He also has membership at Eurospine, British Medical Association and the British Scoliosis Society (BSS).

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Mr Sachin Malde is a well-regarded and highly trained Consultant Urological Surgeon based at the renowned Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London. Mr Malde qualified from the biggest healthcare training facility in Europe, the historic Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine in London, before completing his urology training. He is an expert in the management of urological problems and has specialist interests in bladder cancer, incontinence, urinary infections, bladder problems and prostate diseases. He completed his fellowship training at University College Hospital in London, where he was given an award for his research into incontinence. Mr Malde is keen to offer the most up-to-date treatments and is one of only a handful of urologists performing sacral nerve stimulation for bladder conditions. Enthusiastic about education and the academic side of medicine, he has tutored and lectured nationally and internationally, and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. Mr Malde is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He is also a member of the European Association of Urology where he sits on the Guidelines panel for male urinary symptoms.

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Dr Fakhar Khan is a highly experienced and skilled London-based consultant cardiologist who is an expert when it comes to the field of heart rhythm disorders. He divides his time between various top London hospitals and sees patients to fit pacemakers, defibrillators, and other heart-related devices. He specialises in conditions such as dilated cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, the implantation of pacemakers, performing electrocardiograms, as well as atrial fibrillation.

Dr Khan successfully completed a medical degree at none other than the University of Cambridge in 1999, and, notably, undertook his specialist training in both general medicine and cardiology in Oxford and London. He is also currently representing Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as a specialist registrar in cardiology, with a particularly strong interest in electrophysiology, heart devices, as well as heart failure. 

He has, to-date, written an extensive amount of peer-reviewed articles, is a member of many prominent associations and is an accomplished, patient-orientated consultant.

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Mr Aldrin Khan is a highly skilled consultant ophthalmologist with practice in Bingley and Leeds who specialises in surgery for cataracts, performing over 1,500 cataract operations a year with all complexity of cataract. He has performed over 10,000 procedures in total. With over 25 years’ experience in ophthalmology, Mr Khan is also an expert in glaucoma laser treatments and cornea transplant procedures, and has extensive experience providing multifocal /toric lenses for astigmatism correction as well. Mr Khan currently sees patients at The Yorkshire Clinic Bingley and at Newmedica Leeds.

Mr Khan, who also provides multifocal lens implants, qualified from the University of the West Indies before relocating to the UK. He successfully completed his surgical training in the North Thames, South Thames and the Yorkshire and Humber deaneries, while also working as an honorary fellow on the cataract, cornea and laser refractive surgery units at St James’ University and the prestigious Moorfields Eye Hospital. As a trainee, he undertook specialised clinical and laboratory research in endophthalmitis and gene therapy to the cornea at the renowned Institute of Ophthalmology, the largest site for ophthalmic investigation, treatment and medical education in Europe.

Upon the completion of his CCT, Mr Khan accomplished a prestigious fellowship in glaucoma surgery at York Hospital before taking up a consultant post at County Durham and Darlington Hospitals, where he also served as clinical audit and clinical governance lead. A fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Mr Khan has authored several publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a dedicated tutor for optometry students, and presented his clinical findings at national and international meetings. Mr Khan has been College Tutor at Bradford Royal Infirmary (from 2014 to 2019), and also has a passion for teaching/ mentoring trainee ophthalmologist.

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Dr Rovshan Izamov is a distinguished consultant aesthetic doctor, dermatologist, and anti-ageing specialist.  He is renowned for his expertise in clinical dermatology, hyaluronic acid applications such as Profhilo, anti-ageing treatments, acne and cosmetic dermatology.

With over 15 years of experience, Dr Izamov currently serves as a consultant dermatologist and anti-ageing specialist at 104 Harley Street and Epping Beauty Clinic.

After qualifying with is primary medical degree, Dr Izamov completed his foundational medical training at King’s College Hospital. His commitment to excellence in patient care led him to pursue a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Dermatology from Queen Mary University of London. Notably, his career took a significant leap forward on Harley Street, where he honed his skills under the mentorship of the best in the aesthetic medicine field.

Dr Izamov stands as a pioneer in the UK, being the first to introduce Profhilo treatments. His innovative approach and commitment to staying at the forefront of medical advancements make him a go-to professional for those seeking cutting-edge anti-ageing solutions. Patients can trust Dr Izamov's expertise, backed by a wealth of experience and a dedication to delivering the highest standards of care. 

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