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Dr Lalita Banerjee is a renowned consultant haematologist based in Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks. With over 25 years of experience, Dr Banerjee is highly experienced in a wide range of conditions, with her areas of expertise including anaemia, cytopenia, coagulation disorders, lymphoma, myelodysplasia and leukaemia.

Dr Banerjee qualified with an MBBS from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, before going to receive her MRCP from the Royal College of Physicians and FRCPath from the Royal College of Pathologists.

Dr Banerjee currently practises at KIMS Hospital in Maidstone, GenesisCare Maidstone, Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital and the Sevenoaks Medical Centre. She manages conditions across all aspects of haematology, including haematological oncology, deep vein thrombosis, warfarin therapy, bone marrow transplants and stem cell transplantation. She is the clinical lead for plasma cell dyscrasias, and holds a fortnightly specialist clinic at King's College Hospital.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr Banerjee has published numerous medical articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She is also involved in the teaching and training of junior doctors. 

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Dr Colette Solebo is a Child and adolescent psychiatrist based in Hertfordshire who for over 5 years has worked in a specialist unit where she has developed experience managing young people and adolescents with autism, anxiety and childhood depression, as well as ADHD, low self-esteem and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). She privately practises at Kobe House, Arete Health, where she provides specialised care and assessments for children and adolescents.

With almost 24 years of experience, both in academics and clinical practice, Dr Solebo has dedicated her career to supporting the mental health and well-being of young patients. She holds a PhD in Child Health Research from the University of Warwick and an MSc (Distinction) in Child Health from the same institution. Dr Solebo earned her MB BS from the University of Lagos.
Her expertise in diagnostic assessment for Autism, and ongoing work as part of a Trauma-informed Team, and training in Cognitive behavioural therapy for Trauma in Adolescents (CBT) enhances her ability to provide effective treatment for a range of psychiatric conditions in children and adolescents.

In addition to her clinical practice, Dr Solebo has been actively involved in public health initiatives as a volunteer medic with Prohealth International and for 5 years as part of the Deputy Vice Chancellor’s dedicated Research and Innovation Team for developing Research Activities and practice at the University of Lagos.

Dr Solebo has a strong research background, with numerous publications in reputable journals. Her work includes research focused on child health delivery and care, spanning: paediatric emergency care delivery in lower income environments, to participation in research on the methods of learning lessons nationally from serious case reviews in the UK (Department of Education in the UK)., as well as exploring court skills training programmes for paediatricians.

She is a member of several professional organisations including the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) and the Royal College of Physician's faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (MFMLM). Dr Solebo's approach to treatment prioritises patient-centred care, ensuring that each young patient receives the best possible support for their mental health needs.

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Dr Srividhya Sankaran is a highly-experienced consultant in maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) and obstetrics, based in London. She specialises in MFM, baby ultrasounds and fetal medicine alongside medical complications, childbirth and caesarian section (C-section) and privately practises at Guy's and St Thomas' Private Healthcare and 77 Wimpole Street of Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals' Specialist Care Outpatients and Diagnostics. She was also the Joint Head of Obstetrics at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. 

Dr Sankaran is a leading figure in the obstetrics field, having worked in reputed maternity hospitals both in India and currently in London. Working closely with a highly-skilled team of multidisciplinary professionals including midwives, sonographers and adult, paediatric and medical surgical specialists, she calmly manages emergency situations which results in the best outcome regarding safety and a positive experience for parents.     

Dr Sankaran's educational achievements include an MBBS from Tirunelveli Medical College in India and an MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherri, India. She also has an NBE Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the National Board of Examinations, Delhi, an MRCOG in the same subject from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London and a CCST in obstetrics and gynaecology with subspecialist accreditation in maternal fetal medicine.

Dr Sankaran, who jointly leads specialist antenatal clinics for women with auto-immune conditions such as lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome, utilises her specialist interest in high risk obstetrics, antenatal scans and procedures for suspected genetic conditions and growth problems as honorary senior lecturer at King's College London. Additionally, she holds the position of training programme director in obstetrics and gynaecology for Health Education England.

Dr Sankaran is actively involved in research and her work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and formed presentations for invited lectures at international conferences and webinars. Furthermore, she has organised several obstetric ultrasound workshops at various institutions in London and India. She is also a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London (RCOG) and a member of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society (BM&FMS). She has been a specialist advisor in obstetrics for the Care Quality Commission since 2019.

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​Dr Oliver Guttmann is the Consultant Cardiologist for Inherited and Inflammatory Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the Wellington Hospital and Golders Green Outpatients and Diagnostics Centre, all located in London. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London.

Dr Guttmann sees patients related to all areas of adult cardiology (high blood pressure, high cholesterol and palpitations) for which he has a special interest in chest pain/angina management and coronary intervention, including  angiography and stenting. Dr Guttmann also specialises in inherited cardiac conditions, especially hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and the management of myocarditis.

Dr Guttmann studied medicine at Cambridge University and University College London. Following this, he was awarded both his membership of the Royal College of Physicians and Dr.med qualification from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany in 2008.

His research in atrial fibrillation and stroke in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which was funded by the British Heart Foundation, gained him his MD (Res) degree from the University College London in 2016. Dr Guttmann completed his cardiology training at the London Chest Hospital, Heart Hospital and Barts Heart Centre in 2017.

He publishes routinely in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and has written medical articles on inherited inflammatory heart muscle disease, risk stratification in cardiomyopathy and outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention. He is the Clinical Lead of the Coronary Care Unit at Barts Heart Centre and is a member of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and the Working Group on Pericardial and Myocardial Disease of the European Society of Cardiology.

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Mr Shahrier Sarker is a highly respected consultant orthopaedic hand and wrist surgeon based in London and Chelmsford. He is renowned for his expertise in procedures such as hand and wrist surgery, joint replacement (thumb, finger joints and wrist), wrist arthroscopy and carpal tunnel decompression. He also specialises in scaphoid, carpal and wrist fractures and Dupuytren’s disease, as well as sports injuries to the wrists and hands.

Mr Sarker was awarded a bachelor in medicine and bachelor in surgery degree from the National University of Singapore in 2006. Several years later, he relocated to the UK to pursue training in trauma and orthopaedics eventually going on to complete specialist training at Health Education east of England. Mr Sarker also undertook a prestigious fellowship at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust where he learned complex management of elective and trauma hand and wrist surgery from top plastic and orthopaedic surgeons. In 2017, Mr Sarker was awarded a masters in orthopaedic engineering and continues to hone and expand his knowledge base. He is currently studying a diploma specialised in hand surgery with the British Society for Hand Surgery.

Mr Sarker is a prominent educator in his field and is educational lead for orthopaedics at Broomfield Hospital for medical students from Anglia Ruskin University and Queen Mary University of London. Additionally he is an Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) instructor for The Royal College of Surgeons of England. Mr Sarker also publishes in peer reviewed journals and presents nationally and internationally on his areas of expertise. He has also authored a book chapter on injuries and conditions of the thumb.

Charity work is very important to Mr Sarker. He is an executive committee member for the BSSH Overseas Project in Bangladesh who train local surgeons to specialise in hand surgery.

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Mr Colin Nnadi is an experienced, patient-focused spinal surgeon with a specialist interest in paediatric and adult deformity. He is clinical lead for orthopaedic spine surgery in Oxford. As a consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon, he treats all manner of spinal problems, with expertise in a wide variety of conditions, including general spinal disorders, trauma and spinal infections, alongside fractures, degenerative spinal conditions and disc prolapse. He is also an expert in discectomy procedures.   

He undertook spine fellowship training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, and at the Norfolk and Norwich University Teaching Hospital. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic spine surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals Trust in 2008, and is currently the Clinical Director of Neurosciences, Oxford University Hospitals. He was Clinical Lead for the Oxford Spine Unit from 2017 to 2023.

He sees patients privately at the Portland Hospital and The Harley Street Clinic in London and at the Manor Hospital in Oxford.

Mr Nnadi sees 1000-2000 outpatient cases every year, performing on average one complex deformity case a week. His approach is friendly, patient-orientated, and allows patients and their families to understand his recommended treatment course and diagnosis.

Mr Nnadi is involved in research and development in the field of spinal surgery and was chief investigator for the UK multi-centre MAGEC rods trial in early onset scoliosis. In 2011, Mr Nnadi founded the internationally renowned Oxford Early Onset Scoliosis Meeting, and he has served on several international educational spine faculties. He is a regular faculty member at international conferences on paediatric spinal surgery, and is an ex-chair of the Growing Spine Committee, Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), and a member of the Paediatric Medical Device Taskforce for the SRS.

In 2015, Mr Nnadi published a book on early onset scoliosis, which is now sold worldwide, in addition to publishing various papers in peer-reviewed spine journals along with several textbook chapters. Mr Nnadi worked to develop national guidelines on the management of thrombo-embolism in spinal surgery, and between 2016 - 2018 he served on the NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) Venous Thromboembolism Guidelines Consultation Committee. He is a trustee for the Scoliosis Association UK and founder of the charity, Foundation for Early Onset Scoliosis.

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Dr Annegret Dahlmann-Noor is the director of the children's eye service at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, the largest children's eye care facility in the Western World. She is also Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the prestigious University College London, one of the top universities worldwide.

After receiving her medical training in France and Germany, Dr Dahlmann-Noor specialised as an ophthalmologist, working across a number of leading hospitals in the United Kingdom. 

Dr Dahlmann-Noor specialises in eye problems in children, as well as amblyopia, blepharitis and eye surface inflammation in adults. Her current research focuses on new treatments for lazy eye and shortsightedness (myopia). Dr Dahlmann-Noor devotes much of her time to clinical research, and has been extensively published in peer-reviewed medical journals. 

Additionally, Dr Dahlmann-Noor is a member of a number of renowned medical bodies, including the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. 

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Mr Nicos Kessaris is a leading adult and paediatric transplant surgeon based in London who specialises in renal transplants, living donor nephrectomies and vascular access surgery alongside parathyroidectomy for renal failure, peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion and paediatric transplant surgery and vascular access.  He privately practises at London Bridge Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas' Private Healthcare, as well as International and Private Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital. His NHS base is Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

Mr Kessaris, who is qualified with an MBBS from St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, is highly experienced and respected in his field. He undertook his specialist registrar training in general surgery and transplantation in London. He spent his last two years of training at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Hammersmith Hospital.

Mr Kessaris successfully established the ABO and HLA Incompatible Transplant programmes when he was the Director of Transplantation at St George's Hospital Renal Transplant Unit between 2009-2012. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecture at King's College London. He co-created the Paediatric Transplantation Module on ESOT Transplant Live, an E-learning platform. He teaches on the Live Donor Nephrectomy (LiDo) course that is held in Rotterdam every year, and is an organising committee member of the Paediatric Transplant Symposium. He is also a UEMS examiner in Transplant Surgery since 2014.

Mr Kessaris' work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and he is a member of various professional organisations. These include the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, the British Medical Association and the British Hernia Society. He's also a member of the Vascular Access Society, the British Transplantation Society and the European Society for Organ Transplantation (Councillor 2019-2023) alongside the Transplantation Society, the American Society of Transplantation and the International Paediatric Transplant Association.

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Mr Rajesh Kavia is a highly revered, trained, skilled and experienced leading London-based consultant urological surgeon, who specialises in areas such as urinary incontinence, urinary tract infection, prostate-related conditions, as well as general paediatric urology. He possesses a special interest in functional urology and incontinence in males and females.

The trusted Mr Kavia treats all manner of urological problems from his private clinics across London, and was the first surgeon within the M25 to perform the Urolift procedure to treat benign prostate obstruction, using minimally invasive surgical techniques. He has specialist knowledge and expertise in relation to the treatment, diagnosis and management of prostate and bladder conditions, chronic urological pain, erectile dysfunction, circumcisions, as well as endoscopic stone management. 

The highly qualified doctor graduated from the esteemed Imperial College London (University of London) in 1999, impressively achieving mutliple distinctions in his MBBS. He then underwent his medical training at the prestigious Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, prior to starting out on his research journey at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. 

Mr Kavia has undertaken extensive research specifically focusing on a number of urological conditions, such as being the lead author on a multinational trial of cannabis for multiple sclerosis-related overactive bladder syndrome, and in painful bladder syndrome at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Alongside his clinical and research work, Mr Kavia dedicates time to teaching junior doctors, and is a course director and examiner for higher surgical trainees. He has, to-date, also published a substantial amount of articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.

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Mr Mohammed Anabtawi is a highly respected consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon and head and neck surgeon based in Sheffield. He is renowned for his expertise in wisdom teeth, jaw and facial pain and dental implants. He additionally specialises in jaw correction surgery (orthognathic surgery), salivary gland surgery, oral cancer and head and neck reconstruction, as well as facial aesthetics and facial cosmetic surgery. 

Mr Anabtawi is dual registered as a specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery with the General Medical Council and as a specialist in oral surgery with the General Dental Council. He completed both a medical degree and a dental degree at the University of Jordan before undertaking work in the Middle East where he gained invaluable experience in oral and maxillofacial surgery, facial aesthetics and dental implantology. Following his relocation to the UK, he undertook further surgical training and served as a consultant at the Cornwall Royal Hospital and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. During this period, Mr Anabtawi additionally completed a Master’s in oral and maxillofacial surgery and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 2021, he was appointed as a consultant in oral and maxillofacial surgery, head and neck surgical oncology and reconstruction at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Mr Anabtawi sees private patients at Allura Medical, a highly respected, consultant-led practice in Sheffield which offers expert oral and maxillofacial surgery, as well as surgical and non-surgical aesthetic treatments.

Additional to his clinical responsibilities, Mr Anabtawi is actively involved in medical education and is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Leeds. His extensive academic publications appear in peer-reviewed journals. Mr Anabtawi is a member of a number of esteemed organisations including the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland.

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