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Mr Geraint P Williams is a consultant ophthalmologist specialising in cataract and refractive surgery alongside corneal and external eye disease, working at Hereford Vision Surgical Group and Wye Valley NHS Trust in Hereford and Spire Eye Centre at Spire South Bank Hospital in Worcester.
 
His expertise, exemplified through his leadership of the corneal service in Worcestershire from 2016 to 2021, includes working with patients with astigmatism and those that have had previous laser refractive surgery. Mr Williams’ work also takes in the use of premium lenses to restore sight, lamellar corneal transplantation and corneal collagen cross-linking. Most recently he has been appointed as consultant ophthalmologist at the Wye Valley NHS Trust in Herefordshire in 2021, serving patients in the county and Mid Wales.

His skilled work reflects a highly-qualified professional; Mr Williams has a postgraduate diploma in cataract and refractive surgery from Ulster University, a PhD in Ophthalmology from the University of Birmingham and a MBBCh in Medicine and a BSc in Medical Genetics, both from Cardiff University. Mr Williams also undertook advanced cataract and cornea and external disease training in Birmingham, London and Singapore.

His ophthalmological interests also include ocular surface inflammation, infection and scarring, corneal dystrophies such as Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy, keratoconus and dry eye disorders.
 
Mr Williams is internationally recognised, with a clinical fellowship from Singapore National Eye Centre. He was a Clinical Research Fellow at the Singapore Eye Research Institute, and an NIHR Clinical Lecturer and latterly an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Mr Williams is a speaker in the UK and abroad, as well as a reviewer for numerous ophthalmic and scientific journals.  

Mr Williams is a visiting professor at Ulster University, where he teaches on the postgraduate diploma in cataract and refractive courses. He holds the Royal College of Ophthalmologists Certificate in Laser Refractive Surgery (Cert LRS).

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Mrs Sajitha Parveen is a highly accomplished consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who presently practises at the prestigious Cardiff-based Oak Tree Clinic. She specialises in ultrasound scanning, recurrent miscarriage, menopause, in vitro fertilisation (IVF), pregnancy and early pregnancy assessment, as well as transvaginal ultrasound scanning. She is the current labour ward lead at the Royal Gwent Hospital. 

Mrs Parveen, who is also an expert when it comes to fibroids, infertility, premature birth, reproductive medicine, endometriosis, and carrying out procedures such as hysterectomies and hysteroscopies, successfully completed an MBBS at the University of Madras in India in 1992, which was followed by the completion of a DGO Diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology at the same university in 1996. She has impressively racked up over 25 years of experience in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, 16 of which have been in the UK. 

Notably, Mrs Parveen was directly responsible for establishing and developing both the Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU) and Emergency Gynaecology Assessment Unit (EGAU) at Nevill Hall Hospital in Wales. She has a specialist interest in recurrent miscarriage and has published extensively on this topic, amongst many others, in esteemed peer-reviewed journals and medical publications. She was awarded the Michael Hull Prize in recognition of her dissertation for her MSc in reproduction and development. 

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Miss Laura Harrison is a leading adult and paediatric ENT surgeon based in Reading, who specialises in tinnitus, otology, ear infection, dizziness, glue ear and otosclerosis. She privately practises at The ENT Consultancy at The Forbury Clinic and her NHS base is the Royal Berkshire Hospital. 

Miss Harrison is highly qualified, with an MB BS, FRCS(ORL-HNS) and MSc. She graduated from the University of Nottingham Medical School in 2009 and then went on to complete initial surgical training in general surgery, plastic surgery and intensive care medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London. 

Following this, she was appointed to the Oxford/Thames Valley training programme for ENT and undertook a fellowship in Otology. She gained experience in mastoid surgery, middle ear ossicular reconstruction, stapedotomy and auditory implantation. Here, she won the National Royal Society of Medicine Temporal Bone Dissection competition. She also worked with the paediatric ENT team in Oxford where she gained experience in the treatment of paediatric ENT conditions.

Miss Harrison is also noted for her clinical research, and alongside being awarded a distinction for her MSc in Otology and Audiology, her work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals. Furthermore she is also involved in clinical academia, and is the educational lead for the ENT department at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.    

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Mr Sanjay Mulay is a leading orthopaedic hip and knee surgeon with a specialist interest in hip and knee surgery. Practising across the midlands, Mr Mulay provides expert support to patients requiring hip and knee replacement surgery or revision hip and knee replacement surgery. He specialises in young patients requiring these types of operations and also performs uni-compartmental knee replacement surgery including patellofemoral joint replacement. He also performs arthroscopic knee surgery and forefoot surgery.

Mr Mulay completed his orthopaedic training in Liverpool then underwent sub-specialty training in Leicester and Birmingham, before joining Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2007. As Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr Mulay has been integrally involved in establishing an enhanced recovery programme at the Trust, enabling patients to be mobilised quickly after orthopaedic surgery and reduce hospital stay by two days.

Mr Mulay is a part of the National Joint Registry, where he has some of the highest surgical success rates in the country, featuring in the top 5%, with an extremely low infection rate, revision rate, and mortality rate.

Mr Mulay is dedicated to teaching and is currently the clinical lead in the department.

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Dr Jayesh Makan is a leading consultant cardiologist based in Shrewsbury. He diagnoses and treats patients with chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations, heart rhythm disturbances and blackouts. He has developed a special interest in sports cardiology and is currently studying for an MSc in the subject, having been awarded a full scholarship by St George’s Hospital, University of London. His private clinic is based at Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital, while his NHS practice is at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

Dr Makan trained at Guy's and St Thomas' qualifying with MBBS and a BSc (Hons) in Immunology. His specialist training in cardiology was in London and he spent three years as a Specialist Registrar at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. He developed an expertise in pacemaker, defibrillator and biventricular pacemaker implantation and is a Certified Cardiac Device Specialist with the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners. 

Dr Makan joined Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust as a consultant in 2011 and set up a brand new complex cardiac device service for Shropshire. He was appointed as the Clinical Director of Cardiology in 2013 and led the department for nearly ten years, before taking up a role as Undergraduate Tutor for Keele University Medical School. Furthermore, he has recently been appointed as an Honorary Consultant Cardiology at St George’s Hospital, London and has also been recognised as a Covid-19 Hero at his NHS trust for his work during the pandemic.
 
Dr Makan is active in clinical academia. Between 2003 and 2005, he undertook research with Professor Sanjay Sharma, who is a world leader in Sports Cardiology and Inherited Cardiac Disease. His research was funded by the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) and he was honoured to be appointed a Trustee of the charity in 2018. He is a keen athlete and runner and completed the London Marathon for Greenwich Hospice in 2000 and for CRY in 2022.
 
His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, he has authored book chapters and presented at international meetings. He is a member of a number of professional organisations, including the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners, the European Heart Rhythm Association and he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. 

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Mr Michael Van den Bossche is a renowned consultant general surgeon, specialising in all kinds of bariatric surgery. From his private clinic at the Spire Southampton Hospital, he provides surgical weight loss surgery, along with hernia surgery, gallbladder surgery, surgery to correct gastric reflux, and a variety of laparoscopic surgical procedures. 

Mr Michael Van den Bossche originally trained in Leuven, Belgium under Dr Jacques Himpens, a pioneer in laparoscopic and bariatric surgery. He first worked and gained experience in Brussels, Belgium before moving to Guernsey in the Channel Islands, where he developed the laparoscopic surgery service on the island, going on to establish the island as one of the centres of excellence for laparoscopic surgery.

In 2007, Mr Van den Bossche became the first surgeon to introduce the banded gastric bypass to the UK, and in 2010, he was the first to adopt the mini gastric bypass, or one anastomosis gastric bypass, an operation resulting in better resolution of medical problems, such as type 2 diabetes, and improved weight loss compared to other gastric bypass methods or restricted weight loss operations. For gastric bypass operations, Mr Van den Bossche makes use of the GaBP ring or Fobi ring, making the operation stronger and minimising the risk of weight regain in the future. He also offers the Elipse gastric balloon to those patients who do not qualify for weight loss surgery, while dieting alone is not working for them. The procedure is performed on an outpatient basis, and does not involve endoscopy, surgery, or anaesthesia. 

Mr Van den Bossche devotes time to training and mentoring fellow surgeons in the UK, and has performed live surgical procedures around the world, in addition to being a trainer for the mini gastric bypass operation. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in medical journals, and lectured extensively at international medical conferences. 

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Mr Rowland Rees is a leading consultant urologist in Hampshire and London, who has extensive experience in general urology, including male infertility, erectile dysfunction, male incontinence surgery, penile skin lesions and cancer, genital lymphodema, vasectomy reversal and testosterone deficiency. He is one of the UK’s few full-time dedicated specialists in andrology and genito-urethral surgery such as hydrocele, foreskin surgery and managing foreskin problems in general.

Mr Rees trained in urology on the south coast and subsequently undertook his andrology fellowship where he worked and researched with some of the world’s leading experts in the field.

He is past chairman of the executive committee of the andrology section of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Mr Rees is involved in clinical research at Southampton University and is the principal investigator for two national trials in urethral surgery.

Mr Rowland Rees offers face-to-face, online, and telephone consultations to his patients, depending on preference. For the UK's Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) statistics and feedback about Mr Rees' practice, please see here. 

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Mr Jorge Mascaro is a highly trained and skilled consultant cardiothoracic surgeon based in Birmingham. He specialises in a number of complex heart procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafts, aortic valve repair, ascending aorta and aortic arch replacement, descending thoracic aorta and thoraco-abdominal aneurysm repair. 

Mr Mascaro completed his initial medical training in 1996 in Chile before relocating to the UK to complete further surgical training at St George's Hospital. He also undertook a fellowship in heart and lung transplant. Since then, much of Mr Mascaro's esteemed career has been spent providing excellent care to patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham as a consultant cardiac surgeon. Additionally, he is the director of heart and lung transplantation and mechanical circulatory support as well as lead aortic surgeon. Mr Mascaro also currently practises privately at BMI The Priory Hospital in Birmingham.

Mr Mascaro is actively involved in contemporary research on innovative surgical techniques and technology, regularly collaborating with peers and contributing to academic publications in his field. He shares his expertise in talks and webinars for a number of associations, including the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery, of which he is a member. 
 

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Dr George Farah is a consultant physician based in Reading, who specialises in diabetes and endocrinology. He treats both types 1 and 2 diabetes, thyroid disease and pituitary disease alongside hypogonadism, adrenal dysfunction and parathyroid and calcium abnormalities. He privately practices at Ramsay Health's The Berkshire Independent Hospital and for the NHS at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. 

Dr Farah has over a decade of experience in the management and treatment of endocrinology issues. Further to the specialisms mentioned above, Dr Farah also has expert skills in adrenal disease, testosterone replacement and diabetes management in pregnancy. 
      
Dr Farah qualified with an MBBS from Damascus University, Syria, in 2003 and underwent further training in diabetes and endocrinology at Oxford Deanery. Following this, he was awarded an SC in Diabetes and Endocrinology in 2013.

Dr Farah's clinical interests include endocrine hypertension, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as well as acromegaly (gigantism), Addison's disease and adrenal disease. 

He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians, London in 2011, and became a fellow (FRCP) in 2020. He is a member of various professional associations including the Endocrine Society, Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) and the European Society for Endocrinology (ESE) as well as Diabetes UK. 

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Dr Alessandro Giardini is an award-winning and leading cardiologist based at the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London, specialising in paediatric cardiology. An expert on congenital heart disease, Dr Giardini is the lead of inpatient services at GOSH, and also provides outpatient consultations for all manner of heart problems in children, including palpitations, heart murmurs, chest pain, and heart valve issues. He also privately practices at The Harley Street Clinic Children's Hospital, The Portland Hospital and Chase Lodge Hospital, alongside Bupa Cromwell Hospital.

Dr Giardini's experience in congenital heart disease extends to the diagnosis and management of a wide range of defects in babies, children and adolescents. His GOSH unit has pioneered techniques including transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement and Dr Giardini's involvement in paediatric cardiac research means his patients are treated according to the latest and most successful techniques.

Dr Giardini, who is a Top Doctors 2021 award winner, also leads specialist clinics for children with paediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He's highly regarded for expertise in providing guidance for children and adolescents with documented cardiac disease and those with symptoms during exercise, such as palpitations, chest pains or fainting/syncope.  

His philosophy is a patient-centric approach, delivering treatment with compassion and understanding, and personalising his consultations and treatment to each child and their family.    ​

Dr Giardini has a medical degree and a PhD (in the pathology of heart failure in patients with congenital heart defects) from the University of Bologna's (Italy) School of Medicine. Dr Giardini went on to undergo extensive training in paediatric cardiology both in Bologna and in San Francisco, USA. He is actively involved in research, having published over 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals.  

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