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Dr Fahim Chowdhury is a highly regarded and experienced GP (general practitioner) based in London. His areas of expertise include tiredness, musculoskeletal problems, headaches, chronic diseases, health assessments, and internal medicine. Dr Chowdhury is the founder and medical director of the leading GP centre, My Health and Wellbeing Clinic, where he consults privately. He sees adults and children.

With over 25 years of experience, Dr Chowdhury upholds the highest standards of medical practice. He earned his medical degree (MBBS) from University College London in 1999 as well as an intercalated Bachelor of Science in Health/Medical Physics from the same institution in 1996. Additionally, he holds esteemed membership to both the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Physicians in General Medicine, highlighting his specialist training and qualifications.

As a senior figure in GP practice, Dr Chowdhury has been extensively involved in primary care and healthcare management. He has served as a GP at Evergreen Medical Centre and St Paul's Way Medical Centre, and was also a medical advisor at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, providing his specialist expertise to pharmaceutical research. He is passionate about improving clinical pathways and contributing to the development of local healthcare systems, and has also served as clinical lead at System Health since 2011.

Dr Chowdhury believes in compassionate and patient-centred care, focusing on health prevention, early intervention, and holistic wellness. He is dedicated to supporting his patients’ wellbeing and he also stays abreast of the latest advancements in healthcare, making Dr Chowdhury a trusted GP provider in his community.

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Mr Dimitrios Karadaglis is a highly experienced consultant orthopaedic surgeon who offers treatment in all aspects of degenerative and post-traumatic upper limb conditions. His areas of expertise lie in shoulder replacements, rotator cuff repair, shoulder sports injuries, elbow arthroscopy, wrist arthroscopy and cartilage injuries.

Mr Karadaglis had his basic training in the UK, at UCL in London. He devoted a year in research at Imperial College in London and received a Master’s degree in surgery. His training took place in Guy’s and King’s rotation, and then in 2008, he received his fellowship in trauma and orthopaedics.

To gain more experience, Mr Karadaglis subsequently spent half a year at the Harvard Sports Medicine Team and the Boston Shoulder Institute in the USA.

Mr Karadaglis has published widely in the field of orthopaedics and has a particular interest in sports and degenerative changes of the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints. He also has extensive experience in shoulder arthroscopic procedures and upper limb trauma and reconstruction procedures.

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Dr Anu Chawla is a highly-experienced senior fertility specialist, practicing Advanced Reproductive Medicine, in London. 

Her area of expertise is in Advanced Fertility Practice, Repeated IVF failures, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, PCOS,  Endometriosis (Current Chairperson of Endometriosis Committee of FOGSI), Reproductive Immunology, Egg Freezing, Fibroids, Male Factor Infertility.

Dr Chawla qualified in medicine in Gujarat University in 2007 and then went on to pursue a Master's degree in obstetrics and gynaecology.  She became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, in due course.  

She also obtained a diplomate of the National Board in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She holds Three Post Graduation Degrees in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, one from UK, two from India, from reputable universities. In addition, she did Advanced Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery and another Fellowship in Reproductive Medicine.

She trained in Advanced Level 3D Pelvic Ultrasounds with Prof Stuart Campbell, in London.

She went to the United States to do a Reproductive Medicine Observership Programme at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Shady Grove Fertility Clinics in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and in IVF Department at the EVMS Jones Institute in Virginia, USA, Centre of Reproductive Medicine New York, New Hope Fertility Centre New York.  

Dr Chawla has been previously appointed as a clinical lead consultant in Advanced Fertility Department at various leading teams in India, where she also founded the esteemed IVF department at the Fortis Memorial Research Institute at Gurgaon in Delhi Region.

Her high success rate and clinical excellence in Fertility Practice, with global expertise and perspective, brought her an offer to come back to London and join St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Queen Mary University, London Hospital as a Senior Fertility Specialist, where she did huge numbers of egg collections, embryo transfers etc.

She worked at Create Fertility, St. Paul’s, London and The Fertility and Gynaecology Academy, London.

Combining clinical expertise in both gynaecological Fertility Enhancing Surgery and Reproductive Medicine, Dr Chawla's patients benefit from her sensitive, comprehensive and continuous care throughout their conception journey. 

Dr Anu Chawla's has been actively contributing to the various gynaecology associations, like Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, RCOG, London, The International Federation of OBGYN, FIGO, and the Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Societies in India (FOGSI), amongst others.  

Dr Chawla is a regular invited faculty speaker, at various international and academic key fertility and OBGYN conferences around the world. Most recently, she was invited to chair a film festival session on the topic of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Wellbeing at the XXIV FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics. She was additionally actively involved in campaigning to extend the time span of egg freezing for women in the UK, an amendment which has now been successfully enacted in to law. Dr Chawla also regularly conducts charitable medical projects in India, providing low cost reproductive and gynaecological care for those in need.

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Mr Alastair Lewis is a leading minimally invasive venous surgeon who specialises exclusively in the treatment of varicose veins. He works in full time private practice mainly based in Belfast and Dublin as well as attending Ballykelly and Hillsborough. He is an expert in the non-surgical management of varicose veins and thread veins with EVLT, radiofrequency ablation of veins, foam sclerotherapy and microsclerotherapy. He is a fully trained and accredited in venous ultrasound. He practises privately at Kingsbridge Private Hospital Belfast, the Fitzwilliam Clinic and Hillsborough Private Clinic as well as Kingsbridge Private Hospital North West, and The Vein Clinic at The Beacon Hospital, Dublin.

Mr Lewis is one of a small number of full-time varicose vein practitioners in the UK and Ireland and the only one working in Northern Ireland. He was appointed as a consultant vascular surgeon to the Southern Health and Social Care Trust in 2007 and played a central role establishing the regional varicose vein service in Northern Ireland.

He enjoys a national reputation as an authority in the management of all aspects of venous disease has been invited to speak on the expert management of varicose veins at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Venous Forum, The British Association of Sclerotherapists and Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland meetings on a regular basis in recent years. He has been a member of the board of The British Association of Sclerotherapists since 2021. He holds the prestigious Diploma in Venous Disease from the European Society of Phlebology.

He offers keyhole treatments for thread veins, varicose veins and complications of chronic venous insufficiency. Treatments offered include endogenous laser ablation, foam sclerotherapy, microsclerotherapy and non-injectable treatment of facial veins. He has significant experience in the treatment of veins on the face, chest, hands, feet and in the management of pelvic venous disorders.

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Dr Varun Mehra is a leading consultant haematologist based in London who specialises in myelodysplastic syndrome, acute leukaemia, bone marrow failure syndromes, autologous transplantation for autoimmune conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, systemic sclerosis, and has expertise in Allogeneic stem cell transplantation, immunotherapy and post transplant complications.

Dr Mehra completed his post-graduate specialist Haematology training at world-renowned King's College Hospital, London, where he has been working for the past few years as a core member of a busy Stem Cell Transplant & Cellular therapy unit, while pursuing his MD (res) degree with King's College London University in developing novel diagnostic biomarkers for invasive fungal disease (aspergillosis) in immunocompromised Haemato-oncology patients.

Dr Mehra has been instrumental in leading a large single centre NCRN badged prospective study on Invasive fungal disease and has a good track record for his involvement in clinical trials, more recently as Chief and Principal Investigator of various clinical research studies in the UK. He has developed key academic partnerships in mycology research and education within Kings Health Partners (KHP). He has published regularly on his disease specific research interests in high impact clinical and scientific journals.

Dr Mehra's main research interests are in infections of immunocompromised hosts, graft versus host disease, and transplantation of autoimmune diseases; and has helped develop exciting research collaborations within and outside Kings Health Partners with bench to bed translation opportunities. He also has strong interest in education and training. He chaired London School of Pathology Specialist Trainee Committee and represented London Pathology Trainees in the Royal College Specialist Advisory group between 2014-2016. He currently sits on the KHP Institute of Haematology Education & Training steering group, playing an active role in developing post-graduation modules for training in clinical haematology and other disease specific Preceptorship programmes.

He is also the current Educational lead for Haematology Specialist training programme in Kings College Hospital, jointly working with Training Programme Director.

Dr Mehra is also fully trained in the assessment of patients for, and delivery of CAR-T therapy, a highly specialised new therapy that has recently been licensed for certain patients with relapsed high grade B cell lymphomas and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Dr Mehra is a member of London International Patient Services (LIPS)

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Mr David Cloke is a highly skilled consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne who specialises in the treatment and management of rotator cuff problems, shoulder instability, shoulder arthritis and elbow arthritis. With more than 25 years of experience, he is an expert in the full range of upper limb surgery, including shoulder replacement and elbow replacement procedures, of which he has performed more than twice the national average in the last three years. Alongside his NHS work at Northumbria Healthcare, Mr Cloke currently sees patients at Nuffield Health Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospital and Northumbria Health.

Mr Cloke originally qualified from Newcastle University in 1997 and completed his orthopaedic training in the Northern Eastern Deanery. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2001 and was named fellow only seven years later. Mr Cloke went on to obtain an MSc in Sports Medicine with distinction from the University of Bath that same year, specialising in sports shoulder conditions, before going on to accomplish a higher surgical training shoulder and elbow fellowship in Sheffield in 2009. Mr Cloke has practised in renowned hospital settings since, balancing his notable trajectory with service as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve.

Further to his clinical practice, Mr Cloke is a recognised figure in medical education and training. He sits on the Specialty Advisory Committee, which regulates orthopaedic surgical training in the UK, and is a shoulder member at ODEP, the panel responsible for evaluating the safety and the performance of joint replacement implants. Named Northern Orthopaedic Trainer of the Year in 2014, Mr Cloke is also an associate clinical lecturer at Newcastle University and a national FRCS(Tr&Orth) consultant examiner since 2016.

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Professor Alex O'Neill-Kerr is a highly revered general adult psychiatrist who specialises in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), depression, OCD, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He currently practises at the Transforming Mind Solutions clinic.

Professor O'Neill-Kerr, who is the current medical director and clinical lead at the clinic, also specialises in transcranial direct current stimulation, ketamine, and vagus nerve stimulation. Until his retirement in 2020, as a visiting lecturer, Professor O'Neill-Kerr occupied the role of visiting Professor in neuromodulation at the University of Northampton.

Notably, Professor O'Neill-Kerr has authored and co-authored a substantial number of papers on TMS. He lectures both nationally and internationally on TMS at the Royal College of Psychiatry International Meeting and The Royal College of Psychiatry ECT training days. Professor O'Neill-Kerr is actively researching how effective transcranial magnetic stimulation can be in terms of treating patients with depression and anxiety.

He was a principle investigator in the NIHR BRIGHTMIND study researching Theta burst, Navigated TMS vs standard TMS, the biggest TMS study in Europe due for publication in 2023. He has racked up eight years of experience with regards to the investigation into how this specific treatment option can work for depression in cases where anti-depressants have not been effective.

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Miss Zahra Ashena is a highly skilled consultant ophthalmic surgeon with a prominent presence in both London and Essex. She holds expertise in a wide range of eye conditions, offering expertise in cataracts, premium intraocular lenses, dry eyes, pterygium, corneal diseases, and keratoconus.
 


Miss Ashena holds an MD from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and a BSc in Holistic Medicine from the University of Westminster. She completed her ophthalmology training in Severn and KSS deaneries, following which she continued with two additional years of training, focusing on corneal diseases and complex cataract surgeries in Sussex eye Hospital, Brighton.   


With over 2,300 successfully performed cataract surgeries, including lens-based procedures addressing astigmatism and presbyopia, Miss Ashena has demonstrated a remarkable surgical proficiency. Her contributions extend beyond clinical practice, as she actively engages in teaching and research. She currently serves as a teacher, trainer, and supervisor for North East London Ophthalmic Trainees, imparting her knowledge to the next generation of eye care professionals.
 


Miss Ashena's passion for clinical research is evident in her diverse research interests, spanning cataract surgery, intraocular lenses, refractive surgery, corneal diseases, and keratoconus. As a member of prestigious organisations such as the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, the UK & Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS), and the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS), she continues to contribute to the advancement of ophthalmic knowledge.

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Mr Paul Sutton is a highly respected consultant orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in knee surgery and is based in Sheffield. He is renowned for his expertise in all types of knee surgery, including sports injuries as well as joint and cartilage replacement. He also specialises in surgery for anterior cruciate ligament injuries and cartilage repair.

Mr Sutton qualified in medicine in 1990 at the University of Sheffield and then went on to complete surgical training in the north of England. He attained fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and England in 1994 and then completed further surgical training on the Yorkshire orthopaedic programme. At this time, he developed a specialist interest in the knee joint and related sports injuries and pursued this further through a year-long clinical fellowship at the renowned Adidas Sports Medicine Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. He was awarded fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons’ Trauma and Orthopaedic section in 1999 and was appointed as a consultant in 2001. Due to Mr Sutton’s wealth of experience and expertise in the field, he is frequently consulted for second opinions or his insight on complex cases. He is renowned for his skill and in-depth knowledge in treating sports injuries of the knee and has extensive experience in treating premiership footballers, rugby players and Olympic athletes. Mr Sutton sees private patients at Spire Claremont Hospital and the Thornbury Hospital.

Alongside his clinical responsibilities, Mr Sutton is a dedicated educator and regularly teaches and trains fellow medical professionals and surgeons in arthroscopic surgery. He is also a course convenor and teacher on the Royal College of Surgeons’ orthopaedics ‘Core skills’ course for trainee specialists. He has also produced numerous academic papers which are published in peer reviewed journals and has written 5 book chapters for medical textbooks on his areas of expertise.

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Dr Shravan Chawla is a leading aesthetic, biomimetic and restorative dentist based in Marylebone, London, who specialises in cosmetic smile makeovers, full mouth rehabilitation and bonded restorative dentistry alongside cosmetic dentistry, composite bonding and veneers. He privately practices at the esteemed Wimpole Street Dental Clinic. 

Dr Chawla has over 15 years of international clinical experience and he is established as an all-rounder within his specialist fields. He is highly qualified, with a BDS from SSR Medical College in Mauritius and is fully licensed to practise in India and the UK.

Dr Chawla takes a holistic approach when treating his patients, truly focusing on individual needs, and his attention detail to detail is second to none. He takes pride in creating awareness and promoting ethical and minimally-invasive procedures for his patients.

His approach reflects his passion for dental photography, where he provides the opportunity to showcase complex treatments in a simplified manner. He visually introduces and guides patients through the different stages of a smile makeover and the options available. Furthermore, Dr Chawla utilises his expertise in Digital Smile Simulation and Smile Design software to provide a personalised visual before treatment. This empowers patients to make an informed decision when considering their treatment with him. 

Dr Chawla remains at the forefront of research, techniques and protocols, regularly attending events as part of his commitment to continuous professional development. He strives to provide a painless, hassle-free and comfortable experience, and works closely with master ceramists where the world of art and dentistry combine for world-class results. 

His research has been published online and Bay Dental Institute, which he is the founding director of, was named as one of the 10 best dental institutes in India. He is also the member of various professional organisations including Indian Dental Association (IDA), the Indian Association of Aesthetic and Cosmetic Dentistry (IAACD) and Restorative and Implant Practice Excellence (RIPE), as well as EDU Hub's Study Club at New York University (NYU) and Impart Training and Study Club at IMPART EDU, NYU.  

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