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Professor P.G. Roy is a highly-trained consultant breast and oncoplastic surgeon whose areas of expertise include breast cancer, family history of breast cancer, breast reduction, breast augmentation, breast implant surgery and breast reduction. She is the senior Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals and offers private consultations at Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital and GenesisCare in Oxford. She was listed amongst the top breast surgeons in UK by 'Daily Mail' in 2018, chosen by her peers. 

She graduated from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India and obtained her MD degree in research from Dundee University which focused on molecular markers in breast cancer. She did her higher surgical training in Oxford followed by a national oncoplastic breast fellowship in Nottingham, UK.

Professor Roy established a high-quality oncoplastic unit in Oxford for the treatment of breast cancer, which is actively engaged in clinical trials and research. She provides specialist surgical techniques to breast cancer patients such as partial and total breast reconstruction to improve oncological and aesthetic results. Additionally, she can offer implant reconstruction using ADM, total breast reconstruction with latissimus dorsi flap and nipple-areola reconstruction and symmetrization procedures for women who develop asymmetry following their cancer treatment.

Professor Roy is a founder trustee of Oxford Breast Buddy Group, a breast cancer support group that aims to support women with a new diagnosis of breast cancer. She works alongside a psychologist to encourage counselling and support to her patients as and when needed along the treatment pathway.

She is an examiner for FRCS Surgery examination with Intercollegiate Specialty Board and Regional Surgical QA advisor for National Breast Screening Programme in UK. She is also the principal investigator for national and international trials in breast surgery in Oxford and a Surgery Specialty lead for NIHR Thames Valley and South Midlands CRN network to encourage participation and facilitate engagement in surgical trials. 

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Mr Abdullah Jibawi is a highly accomplished consultant in vascular, endovascular and general surgery, practising in London. With over two decades of invaluable experience in the field, Mr Jibawi is renowned for his expertise in addressing a wide spectrum of vascular issues, including varicose veins, thread veins, leg ulcers, swollen legs, diabetic foot conditions, and intricate vascular and endovascular surgeries.

Mr Jibawi obtained an MBBCh from Damascus School of Medicine, Syria, in 1996, followed by an MS in General Surgery from Damascus University in 2001. In 2007, he achieved the CCrISPs qualification from the Royal College of Surgeons in England.

In 2013, Mr Jibawi completed a Postgraduate Doctorate jointly awarded by the University of Oxford and Sussex University. The same year, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in General and Vascular Surgery. His dedication to enhancing his expertise continued when he earned the Accredited Vascular Scientist (AVS) certification from the Society for Vascular Scientists in the UK in 2014.

Mr Jibawi has gained significant recognition for his pioneering contributions to the realm of vascular surgery. He is credited with the creation and implementation of cutting-edge protocols, guidance charts, and classification frameworks specifically tailored to address varicose veins. These advancements take into careful consideration both the complex medical aspects and aesthetic aspects of the condition.
 
Mr Jibawi is also an expert in the application of low-level laser therapy (LLLT), also known as photobiomodulation (PBM). He has been actively exploring the potential of LLLT in the treatment of challenging wounds, as well as the management of primary and cancer-related lymphoedema. His ongoing research and innovative approaches reflect his commitment to pushing the boundaries of vascular surgery and improving patient outcomes.

Mr. Jibawi's commitment to advancing the field of vascular surgery extends beyond his clinical practice. He has actively contributed to research and academic endeavors, earning recognition through multiple prizes and awards. Notably, he received the prestigious Association of Surgeons in Training Prize (ASiT Award) in 2005, reflecting his dedication to surgical excellence. Other awards and grants Mr Jibawi has received include a significant £500,000 MRC Grant for a PhD studentship at the University of Sussex in 2009, the Best Poster Prize at the VSGBI Annual Meeting in 2010, and the North West London Teaching Programme Supporting Grant from W L Gore.

As a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr. Abdullah Jibawi stands as a distinguished figure in the field of vascular and endovascular surgery, dedicated to providing exceptional care and contributing to advancements in vascular medicine. His extensive experience, academic achievements, and commitment to research make him a trusted professional in the treatment of vascular conditions.

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Dr Sukhjinder Nijjer is a leading consultant cardiologist at the One Heart Clinic in London, who specialises in heart disease, hypertension, heart palpitations, angina, shortness of breath and lipid disorders. He is a world-renowed expert in Cardiology and published extensively in the field. Dr Nijjer is the President of Cardiology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He is also the Communications lead of British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. Dr Nijjer combines his knowledge and expertise to provide individualised care to patients for their specific problems. 

Dr Nijjer is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in Cardiovascular Intervention and works at two major London NHS Trusts - Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. He treats all aspects of Cardiac problems and runs both general and specialist clinics. He treats heart attack patients as part of the primary angioplasty service.

Dr Nijjer graduated from the University of Bristol with his honours in medicine in 2004. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in pharmacology, which was supported by the prestigious Wolfson Award from the Royal College of Physicians. Dr Nijjer undertook his specialist training at the Hammersmith, Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.

Dr Nijjer is committed to improving the treatment of patients through the development and application of new medical technologies. His PhD and ongoing research program has involved the development of new techniques to measure blood flow in coronary arteries with blockages. His PhD was awarded by Imperial College London and was supported by the prestigious Medical Research Council.

While undertaking his PhD, he worked within a highly-renowned team to pioneer the use of iFR and iFR-pullback to better treat coronary blockages. iFR and iFR-Scout are now used in thousands of patients around the world and iFR has recently been called the new gold standard by the New England Journal of Medicine. The technology has now been tested in two major randomised controlled studies - some of the biggest in the field and is part of ongoing new major trials. 

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Mr James Bliss is an expert orthopaedic surgeon in London, with over thirty years of experience, who specialises in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, meniscus surgery, osteotomy, revision ligament surgery, young adult knee preservation surgery and kneecap surgery.

He gained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree at the University of London, graduating with honours in 1990. He went on to complete the Royal College of Surgeons fellowship programme, achieving the coveted FRCS qualification, before undertaking higher surgical training in trauma and orthopaedics. Mr Bliss also spent a year in Australia on a knee fellowship at the University of New South Wales, before accepting a consultant position at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, the position he has held for the last nineteen years.

During his studies, Mr Bliss received numerous awards such as the Walter Mercer Gold Medal for excellence during his trauma and orthopaedics training, an FRCS examination award and surgery honours for his work on his MB BS degree. 

In addition to providing the best care to his patients, Mr Bliss is also the director of the knee service at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He is also heavily involved in training future surgeons in complex knee surgery and is an examiner for the FRCS in Orthopaedics, one of the most important qualifications in this field.

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Dr (Deborah) Sanju Arianayagam is a leading consultant dermatologist based in Reading who specialises in eczema, photodynamic therapy and rosacea alongside vitiligo, acne and warts. She also provides expert treatment in hair loss.  She privately practises at Derma Reading clinic and her NHS base is Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Arianayagam is highly respected as a practitioner, academic leader and clinical researcher. She possesses various qualifications including an MA in Medical Sciences and a BM BCh from the University of Oxford as well as an SCE Dermatology diploma and an MRCP from the Royal College of Physicians (London). 

She undertook her final year elective of her undergraduate training in the John Hopkins Department of Dermatology in Baltimore, USA. Dr Arianayagam then went on to undertake an academic foundation programme in London, which encompassed working on a large epidemiological study at the Royal Free Hospital. This was presented and published internationally. 

Following this, she did a year-long clinical fellowship in dermatology at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, and then completed her dermatology training in the Thames Valley Deanery.   

Dr Arianayagam is also noted for her work at the European Journal of Dermatology as a UK representative for the Residents' board, and Trainee representative for Health Education Thames Valley at the British Association of Dermatology.

Currently she is a tutor on the postgraduate Dermatology course at the University of South Wales. Dr Arianayagam has also presented seminars at Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford, and been a postgraduate teacher at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 

Dr Arianayagam has presented her research at national and international conferences, and it has also been featured in various peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (London). 

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Dr Antoni Chan is a consultant rheumatologist and physician based in Reading. He currently sees patients at Spire Dunedin Hospital. He treats rheumatological conditions including joint pain, swelling and stiffness. Dr Chan is also the associate medical director of the Royal Berkshire Hospital where he has been working since 2007. 

Dr Chan qualified in medicine in 1997 with a commendation from the University of Aberdeen. He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) and went on to do specialist rheumatology training in Oxford. He was awarded the Arthritis Research UK (ARUK) Clinical Research Fellowship from 2003 to 2006 when he completed his laboratory and clinical research into the immunology of rheumatic diseases. He was also awarded a PhD for his work on clinical immunology at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine.

Dr Chan is an examiner of the MRCP examinations, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the British Society of Rheumatology and Immunology. He is a full member of the Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS). In addition, he is a primary investigator for clinical research studies and works towards finding newer and more effective treatments for his patients. He was awarded the Best Care by a Rheumatologist by the National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society (NASS) in the Houses of Parliament in 2018. 

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Mr Graham Tytherleigh-Strong is a highly experienced consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in Cambridge, specialising in shoulder surgery. Currently, he practices privately at Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital and Nuffield Hospital. His areas of expertise include the arthroscopic management of shoulder instability, rotator cuff disease and arthritis. He has a particular interest in revision surgery and also dislocations and arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint. Other treatments that he provides involve sports injuries and elbow surgery.

Mr Tytherleigh-Strong graduated with his medical degree in 1990 from the University of London. He gained his level of expertise by training in London, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Toronto. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Outside his private practice, Mr Tytherleigh-Strong works in the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is also an Honorary Clinical Fellow to the University of Cambridge. He was worked in many sports injury clinics and regularly lectures about shoulder surgery both nationally and on the international stage. He is actively involved in clinical research and has published multiple peer-reviewed journals and his work can be found on both Google scholar and ResearchGate.

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Mr Christian Barnick is both an obstetrician and gynaecologist, with over 30 years of experience working in leading London teaching hospitals. He works privately and in the NHS, and sees women with a wide range of gynaecological issues and problems. Where appropriate he performs advanced specialist keyhole surgery.

Mr Barnick has established and runs an accredited tertiary referral centre for advanced endometriosis. He also provides a comprehensive package of antenatal care and delivery at the Portland Hospital.

With over 30 years experience of both normal and complex obstetrics, Mr Barnick is able to support natural birth and also to manage all obstetric emergencies. Provision of up to date, unbiased, evidence-based information and shared decision making is key to his approach.

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Dr Richard Shaffer is a leading radiotherapy specialist and clinical oncologist based in London and Surrey. He has a specialist interest in treating benign (non-malignant) conditions with radiotherapy, including Dupuytren's disease, Ledderhose (plantar fibromatosis), plantar fasciitis, insertional Achilles tendonitis and keloid scarring.
 
He was the first in the UK to treat patients with osteoarthritis (of the hand, hip, knee, foot, elbow, shoulder), tendinopathy (including tennis elbow, golfers elbow, patellar tendonitis, rotator cuff syndrome, de Quervain’s tendonitis) and bursitis (including trochanteric bursitis or greater trochanteric pain syndrome, GTPS). He also treats patients post-operatively with radiotherapy for heterotopic ossification and pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS). He uses the latest radiotherapy technology to do this.
 
Dr Richard Shaffer is president of the International Organisation for Radiotherapy for Benign Conditions. He is clinical lead for benign radiotherapy for GenesisCare UK. He is co-author of a 2015 and 2023 Royal College of Radiologists documents on the use of radiotherapy for benign conditions, and on the most recent German benign radiotherapy guidelines. Dr Richard Shaffer previously worked as the clinical lead for radiotherapy in Guildford and he chaired The Network Radiotherapy Group and the Radiotherapy Strategy Group.
 
Dr Richard Shaffer has also chaired the Radiotherapy Technology Development Group and led the Brain Tumour Working Group from 2010 to 2019. Dr Shaffer was the principal investigator on several treatment studies in prostate cancer, skin cancer and brain tumours. He supervised a clinical fellow in a programme of clinical and lab-based radiobiological research. Before working at Royal Surrey County Hospital, Dr Richard Shaffer undertook his oncology training in London and later completed a Clinical Fellowship in Radiation Oncology (treatment of cancer with radiotherapy) in Vancouver, Canada. Whilst in Canada he completed several research projects focused on technical radiotherapy, including the comparisons of VMAT with conventional IMRT therapy and RapidArc in several disease sites such as breast, prostate and high-grade glioma.

Dr Shaffer treats patients throughout the UK. Consultations can be arranged by email for the following locations:

• GenesisCare Bristol
• GenesisCare Southampton
• GenesisCare Windsor
• GenesisCare Elstree
• GenesisCare Guildford
• GenesisCare Birmingham
• GenesisCare Maidstone
• GenesisCare Milton Keynes
• GenesisCare Cambridge
• GenesisCare Chelmsford
• GenesisCare Nottingham
• GenesisCare London Cromwell Hospital
• GenesisCare Oxford
• GenesisCare Portsmouth

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Dr Damien McLaughlin is an excellent dentist and Co-Clinical Director of St Paul's Square Dental Practice, Birmingham. He is well-versed in a range of dental treatments, from cosmetic dentistry and smile makeover to restorative dentristry procedures. He has expertise in both crowns and veneers.

After graduating from the University of Liverpool in 2005 (with a distinction in oral health), he gained a post-graduate qualification in restorative and cosmetic dentistry. He went on to complete the entire essentials curriculum at the esteemed Pankey Institute (USA), becoming one of only a few graduates from the United Kingdom to do so. The knowledge and experience gained from this, along with further post-graduate training in Cerec technology and same-day smile makeovers, has made him a highly skilled practitioner with a special interest in cosmetic and computerised dentistry.

Dr McLaughlin is dedicated to providing patients with all of the relevant information, offering clinical guidance to help them choose the best treatment plan and make an informed decision in order to access the long-term benefits.

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