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Mr Mustansir Alibhai is a distinguished consultant oral and maxillofacial/head and neck surgeon based in London. With over 15 years of invaluable experience, Mr Alibhai has become a prominent figure in the field, specialising in a wide range of areas including head and neck cancer, mouth cancer, facial pain, facial reconstructive surgery, neck lump assessment, and wisdom teeth management.
 
Mr Alibhai is dually qualified in both medicine and dentistry. His academic journey is marked by notable achievements, having graduated with distinction in medicine and clinical sciences from King’s College London, in addition to earning a degree in dentistry from the University of Liverpool. He subsequently earned an MFDS from the Royal College of Surgeons. His commitment to excellence led to the prestigious FRCS(OMFS) qualification from the Royal College of Surgeons in 2016.
 
Mr Alibhai currently practises privately at Orthopaedic Specialists at the prestigious Harley Street Specialist Hospital in London. He also has extensive NHS experience, having worked as a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. He currently serves as a consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust.

After finishing his higher surgical training in London, he pursued a post-CCT (Certificate of Completion of Training) fellowship in head and neck cancer surgery at the renowned East Grinstead unit, Queen Victoria Hospital.
 
In addition to his clinical expertise, Mr Alibhai is a dedicated researcher and academic contributor in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery. He is an active member of esteemed professional organisations, including the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists.
 
Mr Mustansir Alibhai's commitment to patient care, extensive experience, and academic contributions make him a highly regarded authority in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery. In 2019, he received a patient-nominated award, underscoring his unwavering dedication to providing exceptional patient care and treating each patient as an individual.
 
Patients seeking expert care for conditions such as jaw cancer, oral lesions, salivary gland disorders, or facial reconstructive surgery can trust in his expertise and dedication to providing the highest level of care.

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Professor Paul Lee is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in London and Grantham, Lincolnshire, specialising in hip replacement, knee surgery and knee cartilage replacement alongside revision hip replacement, meniscus surgery and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery. He privately practises at 108 Harley Street medical centre and as the director at MSK Doctors in Ancaster, Lincolnshire. His NHS base is United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust where he is a consultant sports and arthroplasty surgeon and the Director of Research.

Professor Lee is highly qualified, and received his MBBCh in Medicine from Cardiff University in 2005 and went on to receive an MSc in Sports Medicine - Muscle Performance and Recovery, from Cardiff Metropolitan University three years later. He then returned to Cardiff University to complete a PhD entitled 'Treatment of Muscle Injuries' in 2013. 

He regularly treats elite sports people, including treatment of muscle injuries in UK Premier League footballers, significantly reducing their recovery time, allowing them to return to playing sooner. 

Professor Lee, who is held in high esteem by his patients, offers various non-surgical orthopaedic techniques including micro artho-glycan knee, actovegin muscle injury and stem cell injection treatments alongside the Unloader One® knee brace. He also prides himself in his surgical skills in the S.P.A.I.R.E tendon-sparing total hip replacement, FT-MPFL Patella re-alignment and All-Inside ACL reconstruction surgeries. 
He has also combined surgery, technology, engineering to develop the Single Treatment Autologous Chondrocyte implantation (STACi) procedure. 

Further to his qualifications, Professor Lee also has various fellowships from respected institutions including the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Tr & Orth), the European Board of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (FEBOT) and Orthopaedics Hospital in Oswestry. 

He is also a certified expert in the use of the Exeter hip system, which was developed after training on the Robin Ling Exeter Hip Replacement Fellowship in the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter. He also did international fellowships in Germany and Australia. Other higher training saw Professor Lee become a certified member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (MFSEM).

Professor Lee is widely published in various peer-reviewed journals and is an active member of the British Hip Society (BHS), British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association (BOSTAA) and the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) alongside the Biological Knee Society (BKS). He is internationally recognised at the ICRS teaching centre of excellence for his teaching in cartilage and joint preservation surgery. 

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Mr Robert Goddard is a highly revered and experienced consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon who specialises in facial reconstruction, facial deformity surgery, facial trauma surgery, wisdom tooth problems, salivary gland surgery, dentoalveolar bone cancers, as well as dentoalveolar surgery. He is practicing privately at the Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital in Hull at the moment. 

Mr Goddard, who has held the position as consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust since 2013, successfully completed a BDS in dentistry at the prestigious King's College London in 1990, which he followed up with an MBBS in medicine, which he obtained nine years later at the University of the West Indies. He is an expert in performing surgery of the bone, gums, teeth, and tongue, as well as complex dental extraction of buried roots. 

Mr Goddard also deals with jaw-related problems and can expertly carry out jaw cyst removal. During the pandemic, Mr Goddard founded Touched by Covid for patients to share their personal stories and experiences from all over the world. Mr Goddard set this initiative up to raise awareness and funds for various charities as well as for community initiatives. 

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Mr Aasem Chaudry is a consultant urologist in Bedford who specialises in benign prostate hyperplasia, prostate cancer diagnosis, kidney stones and management of stone diseases.

Mr Chaudry graduated from the University of Punjab, Pakistan in 1986. He undertook his basic surgical training in both Pakistan and the UK. Mr Chaudry passed his Fellowship in general surgery in 1990 and undertook his post-fellowship training in Yorkshire.

He completed his specialist training in urology at the Institute of Urology London in 1994. From 1996 to 2006 Mr Chaudry was a consultant urologist in tertiary care settings in Pakistan. He has worked as a consultant in Churchill Hospital in Oxford, Southmead Hospital in Bristol, Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital in London.

He is currently the Clinical and Cancer Lead in Urology at Bedford NHS Hospital.

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Dr Kalu Ogbureke is a leading consultant paediatrician based in London and Frimley with specialist expertise in neonatal and respiratory medicine. He has over 20 years of medical experience in several aspects of paediatric care, including respiratory conditions; asthma in children; children's food allergies; feeding newborns and childhood vaccines and immunisation.

Dr Ogbureke graduated from the University of Nigeria in 1987 before moving to the UK, where he studied paediatrics at King's College Hospital London and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Bristol, and obtained a diploma in child health from the Royal College of Physicians. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2004 two years after completing his specialist training, and later went on to accomplish two additional trainings in paediatric safeguarding and neonatal life support. 

In addition to his profession as a clinician, Dr Ogbureke has an esteemed reputation as a researcher, manager and teacher. He was the Chief Medical Director of ‎Delta State University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria and was the local coordinator at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for the UK and Ireland's wide “EPICURE 2” study, which looked at the outcomes of babies born before 27 weeks. Dr Ogbureke also has experience in legal cases and has been writing medico-legal reports regarding child protection and perinatal care for more than a decade. 

Alongside his work in the NHS, Dr Ogbureke sees patients privately, at 84 Harley Street, Chiswick Medical Centre and the Parkside Suite at the Frimley Park Hospital.

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Mr Sami Habal is a highly skilled consultant ophthalmic and vitreoretinal surgeon, with practice in London and Sittingbourne, who specialises in the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, macular holes and retinal detachment with vitreoretinal surgery. In addition to simple and complex cataract surgery, he is also an expert in the diagnosis and management of macular degeneration. Alongside his work at King’s College Hospital, Mr Habal currently sees patients at The Blackheath Hospital, The Harley Street Eye Centre and SpaMedica Sittingbourne.

Mr Habal qualified from the University of Damascus, Syria with distinction. He completed his ophthalmology training on the Damascus rotation, at the Eye Surgical Hospital, and then undertook a second, higher, ophthalmology training in South Yorkshire and the West Midlands. Mr Habal later accomplished three prestigious fellowships: an ocular oncology fellowship at the University of Toronto, Canada and two vitreoretinal fellowships, at Birmingham and Midlands Eye Centre and at Oxford University’s John Radcliff Hospital, becoming one of the few ophthalmic surgeons in the world to complete 11 years of training in advanced retinal conditions.

Following his training, Mr Habal was appointed as a locum and consultant ophthalmologist at some of the UK’s leading hospitals including the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup. Since then, Mr Habal has performed more than 8,000 cataract and 2,000 vitrectomy surgeries, with outstanding patient and surgical results.

With an interest in optimising ophthalmology and patient care, Mr Habal is also passionate about medical and surgical education. He is an assessor at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists at King’s College Hospital and a clinical advisor for ophthalmology trainees, teaching the future generation of ophthalmologists from the South East London region. Further to this, Mr Habal is also an author of various papers in peer-reviewed journals, presents at national and international conferences and is an active member of several ophthalmology associations.

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Dr John Seymour is a respected respiratory medicine specialist based in Surrey. He is renowned for his expertise in breathing problems, cough, asthma, sleep apnoea and other respiratory diseases, including lung cancer.

Dr Seymour qualified in medicine at the University of Oxford in 2001, having previously completed a first class honours degree in physiological sciences. He then pursued further training, including elective study periods in South Africa and Australia. He was awarded membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2004. Dr Seymour undertook his specialist training in respiratory medicine in London, going on to undertake positions at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Kings College Hospital and St George’s Hospital. He was awarded an esteemed clinical research fellowship from the British Lung Foundation and later a PhD from the University of London. Dr Seymour produced extensive academic work and has been published in high-impact peer reviewed journals. He has been an invited speaker at key international conferences, delivering presentations and symposia to both the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society. 

Dr Seymour has been a Consultant at Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey since 2011, having served as Chief of Medicine from 2015 - 2020. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2016, and is currently the Deputy Medical Director. He sees patients in his private practice at Frimley Park Hospital’s Parkside Suite and Spire Clare Park Hospital, Farnham. 

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Mr Gurudatt Sisodia is a leading consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in knee and hip and surgery. He is based in south Manchester and has private practices at The Spire Manchester Hospital (Didsbury), The Alexandra Hospital (Cheadle), The Spire Regency Hospital (Macclesfield) and The Highfield Hospital (north Manchester). Mr Sisodia provides expertise in reconstructive and repair surgery for sports knee injuries, in addition to modern surgical techniques for treating cases of arthritis of the knee and hip.

Mr Sisodia performs arthroscopic (keyhole) reconstructive surgery for cartilage, ligament and meniscal injuries of the knee. He has interests in the treatment of anterior knee pain and patella instability. He performs partial and total knee replacements as well as total hip replacement surgery.

In addition to his private practices, he has a full-time NHS practice is based at The Wythenshawe Hospital, part of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

Mr Sisodia excels at dealing with a wide range of patient conditions in his field – from complex degenerative conditions to professional athletes with knee injuries. He qualified from the University of Leeds in 2005 and undertook his orthopaedic training on the Yorkshire Specialist Training Rotation, which culminated in his obtaining the FRCS (Orth) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2014.

His subspecialist training was acquired from highly regarded Knee Fellowships with internationally renowned knee surgeons such as Professor Nick London in Harrogate and BOA past president, Mr Tim Wilton. He completed a Medical Engineering Masters degree with distinction, which helped him to gain an in-depth knowledge of the necessary materials and biomaterials used in orthopaedic surgery. Mr Sisodia gained further surgical experience and skills via a prestigious international year-long Fellowship under the expert tutelage of Dr Jeff Gollish at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital.

Mr Sisodia maintains a keen interest in teaching and training. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester's Medical School and is the teaching lead for medical students passing through the orthopaedic rotation at Wythenshawe Hospital. Previously Mr Sisodia has held clinical tutor and anatomy demonstrator roles, as well as undertaking examiner roles for specialist registrars taking regional exams in the UK and in Canada. Additionally his current clinical supervisor roles mean that Mr Sisodia regularly teaches senior medical students and junior doctors. 

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Mr Rame Sunthareswaran is a highly esteemed consultant general, vascular and paediatric surgeon, who currently practices at both BMI The Chiltern Hospital and BMI The Shelburne Hospital. The reputable surgeon, who has represented the BMI and Buckinghamshire NHS Trust for over 10 years, specialises in general surgery, vascular and paediatric surgery, varicose veins, skin lesions, pilonidal disease, gallbladder as well as groin hernias.

Mr Sunthareswaran possesses a vast amount of experience in both keyhole and open surgical operations for groin-related hernias and various abdominal wall defects, including complex abdominal wall reconstruction. He also has, to-date, gained quite a considerable amount of experience in gallbladder surgery in adults and children within both elective and emergency settings.

The experienced and highly qualified Mr Sunthareswaran carries out his medical practice by undertaking minimally invasive techniques and traditional surgery for varicose veins with a patient centred approach.

Impressively, he graduated with honours from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in 1999. Following his successful graduation, he underwent specialist surgical training in the London teaching hospitals. Previous positions that he has undertake have included research fellow at the Clinical Effectiveness Unit of the Royal College of Surgeons of England before successfully completing his higher surgical training in the Oxford Deanery. He is the current lead clinician for general surgery at the NHS in Buckinghamshire, including paediatric surgery. He is Associate Professor of Surgery for St George’s University and also currently sits on the Surgical Teaching and Appraisal Committee for Oxford Surgical Trainees.

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Mr Nigel Gummerson is a consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon working in Halifax and Leeds. He specialises in surgery for degenerative conditions of the thoracic and lumbar spine, back pain and sciatica, spinal stenosis and spinal deformities such as scoliosis and Scheuermann’s kyphosis. He privately practices at Spire Elland Hospital and is the clinical lead for the spinal surgery service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. 

Mr Gummerson is highly-qualified with three Oxford University certificates, a BA (Hons), BM BCh and MA. Furthermore he has a MRCS and FRCS (Tr & Orth) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He underwent higher specialist training on both the Leeds basic surgical and Yorkshire orthopaedic rotations, where he gained experience from a number of centres across West and North Yorkshire.

He completed his spinal training with a spinal surgery fellowship in Sheffield, which included a period on the visiting surgeon program with Dr Lawrence Lenke and Dr Daniel Riew in St. Louis, USA. 

Mr Gummerson is leading name in clinical education and research. He is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Leeds, while he has had work published in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of various professional organisations including the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS) and the British Scoliosis Society (BSS). 

Furthermore, he's the lead at the Spinal Sub-network, Leeds, for the Yorkshire Regional Spinal Network Board.   

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