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Professor Ahmed Allam is a highly accomplished and renowned consultant ENT surgeon, based in Brentwood and Warrington. He possesses expert knowledge in a wide range of issues related to the ENT speciality, focusing principally on dizziness, tinnitus and ear drum perforation, as well as sinus problems, stapedectomy and septoplasty.

Professor Allam was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB ) in 2005 from Mansoura University, Egypt. Following this, he undertook higher surgical training in a number of renowned teaching hospitals, including Manchester University Hospitals and Cambridge University Hospitals, where he gained a wealth of knowledge.
 
In his career thus far, Professor Allam has performed over 4,000 surgeries in ENT, with over 1,000 in ear surgery including cholesteatoma, tympanoplasty (repair of ear drum perforations) and implants, as well as over 1,500 sinus surgery and skull base surgeries.
 
He has been awarded numerous fellowships, including one from the American Academy Fellowship in 2013, as well as a Cambridge based fellowship, where he underwent speciaist training in multiple areas, including skull base surgery, hearing implantation surgery, ménière’s disease and endoscopic sinus surgery.
 
Throughout his illustrious career, Professor Allam has consistently demonstrated his commitment to providing the highest standard of patient care, concentrating on the importance of trust between doctor and patient. He is dedicated not only to his patients, but also future medics, who he lectures at his former unviersity, Mansoura University in Egypt. 

Furthermore, until very recently, he held the coveted role of educational supervisor for the Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Trust Programme, which works to train Otolaryngology specialists in the North West. He is also a member of The Royal College of Surgeons of England and the European Board of Otolaryngology.

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Professor Daniel Forton is a respected London-based consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist. Specialising in diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal system, he holds appointments at St George's University Hospital and Medical School. His special interests include the medical and endoscopic management of diseases of the liver, pancreas and bile ducts. He is a skilled endoscopist, performing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, including ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) in addition to upper GI endoscopy and colonoscopy. He maintains a busy practice, always aiming to make his patients feel comfortable whilst offering them the most up to date and effective care possible. He is motivated to accurately understand symptoms in order to move rapidly to the correct diagnosis and treatment. He is often asked to give second opinions.

Professor Forton qualified in medicine at University College London in 1993 and then undertook specialist training in London teaching hospitals and performed important scientific research and clinical trials in the area of viral hepatitis. After gaining his PhD at Imperial College London, he was appointed a Consultant in 2005 and now has many years of experience in managing both common and complex clinical conditions. He takes a special clinical interest in abnormal liver function tests, fatty liver, alcohol-related liver disease, cirrhosis, Fibroscan, liver and pancreatic cancer and viral hepatitis. He also treats indigestion, bowel symptoms, colonic polyps and investigates gastrointestinal cancer.

Currently Associate Medical Director for Research at St Georges Hospital and reader in hepatology, he publishes extensively in peer-reviewed journals and lectures at international meetings. He was awarded the Dame Sheila Sherlock Research Medal for his research in liver disease. Professor Forton is a keen advocate of evidence-based medicine and continues to be a leading investigator in clinical trials of novel treatments in a range of liver diseases.  He is a founding partner at the London Gastroenterology Partnership and consults privately at Parkside Hospital and Spire St Anthony's, all in London. He complies with insurance company fee schedules.

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Dr Dipesh Mistry is a well-regarded and extremely experienced consultant sleep physician and psychiatrist. He honed his skills in the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (NHS) and offers face to face consultants at Ankha Clinic, in the heart of Chelsea, moments from Chelsea Green (private).
 
Dr Mistry, who specialises in insomnia, depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and stress, also possesses expertise in panic attacks, phobias, bipolar disorder and emotionally unstable (borderline) personality disorder.
 
Dr Mistry obtained a BSc in biochemistry at University College London in 2005, after which he completed his MBBS at the Royal Free and University College London Medical School in 2008. Dr Mistry went on to complete his specialist training in general adult psychiatry, and became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2014.
 
Whilst completing his specialist training in psychiatry at the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Mistry simultaneously pursued his interest in sleep medicine. As a sleep physician, Dr Mistry possesses valuable experience with the treatment of insomnia, restless leg syndrome, sleepwalking (somnambulism), nightmares, night terrors and REM sleep behaviour disorders.
 
Dr Mistry has a particular interest in the treatment of insomnia which is occurring alongside a mental health condition, such as anxiety or depression. He is also able to assist patients who wish to come off their sleeping medications.
 
Notably, Dr Mistry is currently the honorary treasurer of the Sleep Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He enjoys teaching, and has served as an examiner at University College London Medical School since 2012. He has given talks about Sleep Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine.
 

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Dr Albert Edwards is a highly experienced consultant clinical oncologist based in Canterbury and sees patients at BMI The Chaucer Hospital and Genesis Care in Maidstone. Dr Edwards also sees patients at Kent and Canterbury Hospital and is a member of the prostate brachytherapy team at Maidstone Hospital.

Dr Edwards delivers non-surgical treatments to people with urological cancers. His specialist interests are image-guided IMRT radiotherapy, prostate brachytherapy, inserting SpaceOAR hydrogel spacers for patients receiving prostate radiotherapy, as well as prostate brachytherapy.

He undertook a radiation oncology clinical fellowship at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto in Canada where he gained extensive knowledge regarding image-guided intensity modulated radiotherapy. He also completed training at the Royal Free Hospital and later a prostate brachytherapy fellowship at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. During his time there, he spent two years performing real-time prostate seed implant procedures and ran a phase 2S clinical study of focal prostate brachytherapy. This is the third trial of its type in the world.

Dr Edwards undertook his specialist oncology training in Essex and London, working at well-known institutions such as the Royal Marsden Hospital Chelsea, Southend Hospital, St. Bartholomew's Hospital and University College London Hospital. He is a principal investigator for several clinical trials in urological and colorectal cancers, his research is published in renowned medical journals.

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Dr Aneesha Shah, is a leading consultant and specialist oral surgeon based in London who specialises in dental surgery, wisdom teeth and tongue-tie alongside extraction of teeth. She privately practises at Serio Dental clinic, which offers state-of-the-art dental treatments, diabetes and mouth cancer screening, oral surgery, dental hygiene services, and a range of advanced facial aesthetic treatments. Dr Shah's NHS base is at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where she is a consultant oral surgeon.  

Dr Shah obtained her BDS from the University of Bristol in 2006 and pursued further qualifications from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, including the membership of the Joint Dental Faculties (MJDF) in 2008 and the membership in Surgical Dentistry (MSurgDent) in 2012. She also holds a postgraduate certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) from King's College London (KCL) and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Shah's prioritises patient comfort and employs a minimally invasive approach, ensuring a calm and comfortable experience for her patients, even those who may feel anxious.

Dr Shah is actively involved in the field of oral surgery and holds leadership positions such as examiner for the MFDS England and examiner for the tri-collegiate membership examination for Oral Surgery. She also serves as the Oral Surgery MCN deputy chair for north-west London. Her dedication to education is evident through her past role as lead tutor for the RCS Diploma in Primary Care Oral Surgery and as a guest editor for the Primary Dental Journal’s Oral Surgery issue in 2022.

Dr Shah's commitment to research is reflected in her numerous publications and contributions to the field. 

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Dr Amit Chatree is an exceptionally skilled and renowned consultant gastroenterologist, currently practising in Newcastle upon Tyne. He holds expertise in a wide range of gastroenterological issues, with a particular focus on inflammatory bowel disease, bowel cancer, general liver disease, coeliac disease, dyspepsia, gastrointestinal cancer (upper and lower GI cancers), small bowel conditions, diarrhoea, rectal bleeding, gastrointestinal polyps, bowel cancer screening and complex abdominal pain.
 
Dr Amit Chattree qualified from Bart’s and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and undertook specialist gastroenterology training on the North East Thames Gastroenterology Training Programme. He worked at world-leading centres gaining valuable expertise in treating the most complex gastrointestinal conditions.

He undertook an advanced endoscopy fellowship at the University Hospital of North Tees and completed an MD Thesis at Durham University with numerous publications. Dr Chattree is the lead author of the British Society of Gastroenterology Guidelines for the management of large colorectal polyps and also developed the world’s first framework for the management of large polyps. He was awarded a British Society of Gastroenterology prize for his work in 2015.

Dr Chattree specialises in advanced therapeutic endoscopy with high-quality outcomes.  He is an accredited endoscopist for the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme and is a nationally recognised expert in small bowel endoscopy. He leads the small bowel department at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, the main tertiary referral centre for double-balloon enteroscopy and capsule endoscopy for the North East and Cumbria. He is also the Course Director for the renowned Lumley Castle European Capsule Endoscopy Course and a faculty member of the Sheffield Capsule Endoscopy Course.

He is a nationally and internationally renowned gastroenterologist.  He is an invited speaker at national and international conferences and remains active in teaching and research internationally.  He is a national assessor for small bowel endoscopy and is the Royal College of Physicians’s national lead for the small bowel capsule endoscopy certification pathway.  He is also a faculty member of the prestigious international teaching academy IRCAD.

Dr Chattree sees a wide variety of gastroenterology and hepatology cases and is often asked to provide a second opinion for complex cases.

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Dr Wallace Brownlee is an experienced consultant neurologist and multiple sclerosis specialist based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London. He currently sees private patients at the Cleveland Clinic London and the Queen Square Private Consulting Rooms.

Dr Brownlee has a busy general neurology practice through the NHS, seeing the full range of neurological disorders, and also leads specialist clinics where he is responsible for seeing patients with multiple sclerosis and related neuroinflammatory disorders. Dr Brownlee is lead consultant for the multiple sclerosis service at Queen Square, providing clinical leadership and strategic direction for the UK's largest specialist multiple sclerosis service. 

Dr Brownlee successfully completed undergraduate and postgraduate medical training in Auckland, New Zealand, before undertaking PhD studies at University College London. His thesis focused on the use of Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI) to improve the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, and better understand the long-term prognosis in individual patients. His research has helped to inform changes to the diagnositic criteria for MS to allow an earlier diagnosis than ever before. 

To-date, Dr Brownlee has published over 50 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals, including The Lancet and British Medical Journal. He is currently involved in clinical trials investigating cutting-edge treatments for multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. 

He was appointed Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Neurology in 2020, and Academic Director for the Multiple Sclerosis Academy in 2021.

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Dr Dominic Kelly is a consultant cardiologist of exceptional skill. He practises in the private healthcare sector from his clinics in Winchester and Basingstoke and performs public work in Andover.

He is an expert in all areas of general cardiology and assists patients with a wide range of symptoms, including breathlessness, palpitations and chest pain. He also has a strong subspecialist focus on the diagnosis and management of heart disease and heart failure, and he achieved his higher medical doctorate (MD) for his research in heart failure for the British Heart Foundation.

Additionally, he provides numerous treatments, including the implantation of cardiac devices such as pacemakers for atrial fibrillation and arrhythmia. He is the lead cardiologist for pacemakers and devices at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH) and runs the heart failure service.

Research is another aspect of Dr Kelly's contribution to the field of cardiology. He has contributed more than 50 scientific research publications and abstracts to renowned peer-reviewed medical journals and he has been invited to numerous national and international meetings to provide lectures on cardiac diseases.

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Dr Sarah Crawford is an experienced chartered counselling psychologist based in London. Treating a wide range of psychological disorders from stress and anxiety to borderline personality disorder, she uses techniques such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) to provide her patients with the best help they can get.

Dr Crawford graduated with Honours from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in Psychology. She holds certificates in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Counselling Psychology and earned a Masters Degree (MSc) in Occupational and Organisational Psychology from London Metropolitan University. She went on to complete a Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology (DPsych) from City University.

With over 10 years' experience working in mental health, Dr Crawford provides both long-term and short-term therapy and both primary and secondary care. She specialises in complex cases, working with both adults and children who suffer from various mental health problems. While most of her cases involve one-on-one therapy, she sometimes sees families or couples, and also facilitates group therapy. In addition to her private practice, Dr Crawford is also Lead Psychologist for FFCI.

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Professor Gideon Lack is a highly experienced consultant in allergy and immunology who specialises in asthma in children, allergies, anaphylaxis, immunity and infection, food allergies, food intolerance, paediatric immunology, and paediatric allergies.

Professor Lack qualified in medicine from Oxford University and proceeded to train as a paediatrician for four years in New York and another four years in Denver, Colorado. He is a current professor and the present head of paediatric allergy at King's College, London.

Thus far in his medical career, Professor Lack has contributed greatly to research regarding severe childhood asthma, food allergies, the treatment and prevention of food allergies, eczema, and hay fever in children and adults. Notably, he is currently on the Steering Committee as a representative of the Leadership Centre for CoFAR to give insights on the best studies to pursue, trouble shoot, and evaluate the progress of studies. 

To add to this, Professor Lack has, impressively, established two of the nation’s paediatric allergy centres and is a co-founder of the Allergy Academy at King’s College London. He is also a director of the Centre of Excellence course for international students and a consultant to the Sean Parker Allergy Centre and Stanford University. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology as well as the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Practice. Profesor Lack is also the secretary to the Food Allergy Section of the World Allergy Organisation. In 2010, Professor Lack was awarded the William Frankland Excellence in Allergy Award by the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

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