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Mr Alastair Brookes is a consultant general and colorectal surgeon with over 15 years of experience based in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.

He is highly trained and experienced in several surgical procedures, such as gastrointestinal procedures, laparoscopic surgery and minimal access surgery (keyhole surgery). Among the many conditions he treats are hernias, pelvic floor dysfunction, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), faecal incontinence and rectal prolapse.

Mr Brookes underwent surgical training in all aspects of colorectal and general surgery in the West Midlands and Lincolnshire. During this period, he took time out to undertake a clinical research post at the University of Leicester. After completing his surgical training, he underwent a post-CCT fellowship in pelvic floor dysfunction.

He has maintained a keen interest in medical research. This research includes investigations into abdominal wall closure, incisional hernia formation, rectal prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction, and has lead to numerous pieces of his work being published in peer-reviewed journals. Not only does he commit to research and providing first-class patient care, but also to teaching and supervising medical students and surgical trainees.

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Dr Maria Corretge is a highly respected consultant geriatrician and general physician based in Edinburgh. She specialises in the management of Parkinson’s disease and dementia. She also has an interest in managing chronic fatigue, as well as geriatric care and healthy ageing.

Dr Corretge qualified in Medicine at Spain’s Universidad de Oviedo after completing Erasmus studies in Toulouse, France and Brussels, Belgium. Following her graduation, she relocated to the UK to undergo further training. She was appointed as a member and later as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the geriatrics section. Through her many years work as a consultant physician, she has gained invaluable clinical experience and specialises in providing world class care for older patients, particularly relating to movement disorders and Parkinson’s disease. She sees private patients at Spire Murrayfield Hospital in Edinburgh.

Dr Corretge has authored a number of academic publications which appear in respected, peer-reviewed journals. She has recently completed postgraduate qualifications in Religion, Ethics and Philosophy with a First Class Honours Bachelor’s degree with The Open University. She has also undertaken medical voluntary work for Health-Point Foundation for refugee crisis relief and has an ongoing non-medical volunteering commitment to the Society of St Vincent de Paul. She is involved in medical politics and is an appointed spokesperson and member of the Advisory board for the campaining organisation EveryDoctor.

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Dr Mark Vanderpump is a highly experienced consultant endocrinologist based in London who specialises in adrenal gland disorders, hyperparathyroidism and hyperthyroidism alongside hypothyroidism, thyroid disorders and diabetes. Furthermore he has significant expertise in treating polycystic ovaries (PCOS). He practices at The Physicians' Clinic, Wellington Diagnostics & Outpatients Centre and One Welbeck Digestive Health clinic.

Dr Vanderpump has had a career spanning over 30 years, and was previously a consultant physician and honorary senior lecturer in endocrinology and diabetes at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. His main area of expertise is thyroid disease, but his clinical practice includes all aspects of diabetes and endocrinology. He also sees referrals of less frequently-occurring conditions such as thyroid cancer; pituitary conditions such as acromegaly; and adrenal disorders including Addison's disease, plus calcium and bone disorders.

Dr Vanderpump, who is highly qualified with an MBChB, MRCP and MD alongside a CCST and FRCP, did higher training in the West Midlands, North East England and North Staffordshire.

Dr Vanderpump is a respected figurehead in the endocrinology community. He is the former president of the British Thyroid Association and former chair of the London Consultants' Association.

He continues to lecture on diabetes and thyroid disease, is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and has published a book called Thyroid Disease (The Facts). He is also a member of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), where he is also a fellow, the British Thyroid Association (BTA) and the Society of Endocrinology (SoE). Furthermore, he has professional membership of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) , London Consultants' Association and the Independent Doctors Federation.   
 

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Mr Amer Khan is a renowned consultant orthopaedic surgeon whose areas of expertise include soft tissue sports injuries, knee and shoulder conditions, arthroscopy, ACL reconstruction, meniscus repair and both cartilage preservation and replacement. He is a highly trained surgeon and sports arthroscopist who works alongside a multidisciplinary team of experts.

He was educated at King's College London where he studied physiology and exercise medicine. He completed further subspecialist fellowship training in complex shoulder surgery at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and complex knee surgery at Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospital. Mr Khan was awarded the highly respected British Orthopaedic Association European Travelling Fellowship which gained him further subspecialist training working with leaders in arthroscopic surgery. This took place in several cities in Belgium and France before starting additional fellowships in the USA and other European Centres of Excellence.

Mr Khan was appointed to work on the knee team for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. There, he treated various athletes and performed their surgery at the Homerton University Hospital. He still treats professional athletes from all disciplines and also sports and fitness enthusiasts.

While practising as a consultant, he also dedicates his time to research and medical education, teaching courses on shoulder and knee surgery and has recently been involved in teaching and examining orthopaedic and sports and exercise medicine trainees to practice at a consultant level.

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Mr Jonathan Bull is a consultant neurosurgeon and spinal surgeon. He treats a full range of brain and spinal disorders which cause pain and dysfunction in the spine and the limbs with both simple and complex procedures.

He studied neurophysiology and medicine at Cambridge University before qualifying in 2000.

Mr Bull completed initial surgical training at St Mary’s campus, Imperial College, followed by higher surgical training in neurosurgery under the tutelage of Henry Marsh in the south Thames Programme. Alongside this, he achieved a Doctor of Medicine (MD Res) at University College London (UCL) specialising in MRI imaging of paediatric brain tumours.

He then undertook two specialist fellowships in complex spine surgery, initially as the Sir Victor Horsley Complex Spine fellow between the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (Queen Square). He was subsequently awarded a European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) fellowship at University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2011.

Mr Bull joined the Barts Health Trust as a Consultant in 2012; his NHS practice is based in the Trust’s Royal London Hospital.

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Dr Gustavo Silva is a highly experienced and revered general dental and implant surgeon who possesses particular expertise in dental implants. He also specialises in dental bone grafts, complex restorative dentistry, gum grafting, immediate loading implants, as well as tooth restoration. He currently practises at the highly renowned London-based The London Centre for Implant and Aestehtic Dentistry. 

Dr Silva, who obtained his first official medical qualification in Lisbon (LMD) in 2004, notably undertook postgraduate training in implantology in 2005 at said university. He would then go on to successfully complete a one-year clinical residency in implantology with the globally renowned Dr Mark Hamburger in London in 2009. 

Impressively, Dr Silva was an invited surgeon assistant at the Maxillo-Facial Department at the Lisbon-based Hospital Amadora-Sintra from 2005 to 2007. He is the current implant dentistry and operative dentistry lead clinician at Portman Healthcare Maidenhead and is also a operating theatre staff surgeon for maxillofacial surgery at the Hospital Amadora Sintra. 

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Professor Margaret Johnson is a senior consultant physician in thoracic medicine and the HIV research director at the Royal Free Hospital. Professor Johnson is one of the UK’s leading consultants in respiratory medicine and currently sees patients at St John & St Elizabeth Hospital and at Royal Free Hospital.

Her main expertise is in asthma, breathlessness, COPD, long Covid, interstitial lung disease, occupational lung disease, pneumonia, lung cancer, tuberculosis and respiratory infections (HIV and respiratory infections in the immunocompromised).

She is the clinical lead for respiratory diseases at St John's and St Elizabeth's Hospital and she is the present clinical director of the North Thames Clinical Research Network (CRN) for the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). She was the immediate Academic Vice President at the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Professor Johnson qualified in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and was awarded an MD from London University. Subsequently, she was awarded a personal chair in medicine at University College. Professor Johnson was previously the chairman of the British HIV Association and the medical director at the Royal Free London Foundation Trust. She has published more than 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals on both respiratory and HIV topics.

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Dr Simon Peake is a revered consultant gastroenterologist who specialises in performing colonoscopies, and is an expert in conditions such as Crohn's disease, diarrhoea and constipation, acid reflux, abdominal pain, and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). He is London-based and currently practises at OneWelbeck Digestive Health and the Lindo Wing at St Mary's Hopsital. His current NHS practice is Imperial College London.

Dr Peake is also the current lead of the inflammatory bowel disease service at Imperial College London, and both a clinical examiner and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the highly established college. His main areas of clinical research include inflammatory bowel disease, colon polyps, as well as endoscopy. He has published, to-date, a particularly substantial amount on these areas of interest. He is also an expert when it comes to food intolerance, acid reflux, rectal bleeding, gastrointestinal bleeding, and coeliac disease. 

Dr Peake successfully completed a BSc with first class honours at the Imperial College London in 2001, an MBBS at said university two years later, as well as a MRCP at the Royal College of Physicians, London, in 2006. He would then later obtain an MD from the previously mentioned Imperial College London in 2015. He possesses a notable level of expertise in endoscopy, and is the current endoscopy training lead at St Mary's Hopsital, London. 

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Miss Ivilina Pandeva is a leading consultant gynaecologist in London and Cambridge who holds a sub-specialist interest in urogynaecology. She treats conditions such as primary and recurrent pelvic organ prolapse, female urinary incontinence, perineal problems and sexual dysfunction.

Miss Pandeva’s area of expertise lies within the management of female pelvic floor dysfunction, having undertaken three years of the RCOG (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist) accredited sub-specialist training in urogynaecology and laparoscopic pelvic reconstructive surgery at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. 

She remains active in the research for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction and has authored peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in this field. She is a member of the British Society of Urogynaecology (BSUG) training subcommittee and participates in the International Continence Society (ICS) mentorship scheme.

Miss Pandeva is passionate about improving women’s quality of life and self-confidence by providing care and treatment to common and potentially upsetting conditions.

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Mr Nick Kopsachilis is a leading consultant ophthalmologist who currently sees patients at BMI The Chaucer Hospital, Kent Eye Centre and East Kent Hospitals NHS, University Foundation Trust. He has a wide range of experience, specialising in complex corneal and ocular surface disease as well as refractive surgery. He specialises in the implantation of multifocal and astigmatism-correcting intraocular lenses as well as cornea graft surgery.

Mr Kopsachilis' clinical interests include small incision cataract surgery, complex cataract surgery with toric and multifocal lenses, laser cataract surgery, complex corneal disease including corneal transplantation, infections, surgery for Fuchs' dystrophy, dry eye disease, keratoconus surgery, meibomian gland dysfunction, blepharitis, Sjogren's disease and contact lens-related eye problems.

Mr Kopsachilis completed his ophthalmology training at some of Germany's most prestigious ophthalmic hospitals in Munich and Nuremberg. He continued with his subspecialty training at the highly regarded Moorfields Eye Hospital and King's College Hospital in London. Since 2016, Mr Kopsachilis has been running the cornea service at The East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. In 2019 he became the clinical lead for ophthalmology. He has a keen interest in researching and has published more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles.

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