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Mr Aniruddha Chakravarti is a leading consultant urological surgeon based in Birmingham. Specialising in robotic and laparoscopic kidney surgery, and prostate surgery procedures such as HoLEP, UroLift, and Green Light laser surgery, Mr Chakravarti also provides treatment and diagnosis for a wide range of urological conditions. 

He originally qualified as a medical graduate in 1990, before completing extensive training in urology, and specialist training in laparoscopic and robotic surgery. He has since gained experience in a number of hospitals and clinics across Birmingham and the West Midlands.

Mr Chakravarti has also completed specialist laparoscopy training at the European Institute of Telesurgery in Strasbourg, France, for which he received a laparoscopic surgery diploma. Through his substantial training and vast experience, he is an expert in all types of laser-assisted surgery. He is one of a small number of surgeons experienced in Holmium-YAG laser enucleation and morcellation of the prostate.

Mr Chakravarti is the founder of the Urology Consultancy (Birmingham) Limited, and has been involved in numerous research projects in the field of urology, such as the development of an encrustation-free catheter. He has been a principal investigator in many international clinical trials and is an expert advisor for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. He has also published extensively in peer-reviewed medical journals. 

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Professor Raj Mookerjee is a consultant hepatologist based in London, with a specialist interest in management of cirrhosis complications and alcoholic liver disease. His practice also addresses management of fatty liver and derangement of liver function tests, in addition to endoscopic management of liver conditions including varices. He privately practices at The Royal Free Private Patient Unit and London Medical, Marylebone.  His NHS practice base is at The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Professor Mookerjee's work specifically centres around the complications of chronic liver disease and liver failure. He's at the forefront of research for new therapies for portal hypertension and managing cirrhosis complications, including the application of innovative remote monitoring of cirrhosis to provide early intervention, and incorporating novel biomarkers to assess liver disease progression. Recently, Professor Mookerjee and his team were the first to trial the CirrhoCare app, which will allow hepatologists to remotely monitor liver disease patients. 

Professor Mookerjee qualified with a First Class BSc and then a Distinction MBBS from University College London (UCL). After graduating, he went onto pursue a specialist training program in gastroenterology and hepatology within the Central and North London Deanery, including Liver transplantation experience at The Royal Free. Professor Mookerjee completed his specialist training in 2005. During this period, he also completed a PhD that focussed on new mechanisms for portal hypertension. He then took up a post as Consultant Hepatologist at UCLH and went onto to lead that service before its migration and integration into the Royal Free Liver and Transplantation Unit in 2010, where he continues to be based. 

He also has an esteemed academic research and teaching career which currently sees him as Professor of Translational Hepatology for leading institution University College London, and he is also a Skou Professor of Hepatology at Aarhus University in Denmark. Additionally, his international role also includes him serving on the steering committee for the European Foundation for Chronic Liver Failure research (EF-CLIF), and on the educational committee for the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). 

He is also within a professional working group that has written the International Guidelines for managing cirrhosis complications. Nationally, he serves on the Committee for Hepatology Training and also within the Board of the British Association of Studies of the Liver (BASL), as Secretary-elect, and within a special interest group for managing portal hypertension. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.  

Professor Mookerjee's research over the last two decades spans the breath of translation including delivery of First-in-Man studies in cirrhosis patients. He has been principal investigator of many multi-centre clinical trials and has published in many peer-reviewed journals, with an h-index of 50. He is a regular invited speaker to many international meetings and is passionate about seeing new concepts reach early clinical translation for the benefit of patients.  

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Mr Ricardo Camprodon is a respected Consultant General, Laparoscopic and Benign Upper GI Surgeon with over 25 years’ experience, practising in Birmingham and Dudley. Mr Camprodon’s knowledge spans multiple areas, and he specialises in gastroesophageal reflux disease, gallbladder and biliary stone disease, abdominal wall hernia surgery, weight loss surgery and gastroscopy.
 
Mr Camprodon qualified from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with an LMS (equivalent to a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) in 1994, followed by a master’s degree in surgical science (MSc). He then moved to the UK in 1998 to complete his surgical training.
 
His interests lie in benign upper GI diseases, bariatric and laparoscopic surgeries. In his career he has performed over 2500 general surgical operations, including 800 laparoscopic cholecystectomies and 100 anti-reflux procedures. He also performs over 800 gastroscopies a year.
 
Mr Camprodon is also dedicated to research and medical education. He pursued a multicentre, multinational research project in transplant immunology at Sheffield University, Kings College London and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, for which he was awarded two international prizes and, a Ph.D. in 2019.

He also has obtained a post-CCT fellowship in bariatric and antireflux Surgery. Mr Camprodon is a fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons and is currently involved in establishing the Black Country Bariatric Collaborative Group, which will focus on delivering a weight loss surgery service to the Black Country population without the need to outsorce.

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Mr Nitin Shetty is a vastly-experienced consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon based in London, specialising in degenerative spinal conditions, spinal infections and spinal fractures. His interests are minimally-invasive spinal operations, slipped disc and sciatica alongside neck and back pain.

He graduated with an MBBS in India, where he also completed his postgraduate degree in orthopaedics. Afterwards, Mr Shetty trained as an orthopaedic registrar on the London-KSS deanery. He completed two spinal fellowships; the first was at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, and the second was at Guys and St Thomas Hospital. Mr Shetty's training was particularly focused on spinal deformities and minimally invasive surgery.

Also being involved in full-time research, Mr Shetty submitted a thesis to Sheffield University and received a masters degree. Along with his research, he has many publications in peer-reviewed journals. Mr Shetty has presented and co-chaired sessions in national and international conferences, as well. In addition, he is a clinical and educational supervisor for junior trainees and orthopaedic registrars in three different programmes. 

Currently, Mr Shetty is a consultant in multiple clinics and with the NHS Trust Foundation. He is a go-to surgeon in regards to the neck, spine and arms as well as legs. 

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Dr Saagar Mahida is a consultant cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist whose private practice is based in Liverpool and Manchester. He specialises in treatment of heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmia), including atrial fibrillation, heart palpitations, ectopic beats, supraventricular tachycardia, and ventricular tachycardia. 

Dr Mahida specialised in management of heart rhythm abnormalities at a number of the best centres in the world, including Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and Hospital Haut Leveque, Bordeaux where the first curative catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation worldwide was performed. He spent three years in the Harvard system in Boston working with world-leading heart rhythm experts. He has since established himself as a leading UK heart rhythm specialist and atrial fibrillation specialist. 

Detailed information on Dr Mahida’s areas of expertise can be found at www.drsaagarmahida.co.uk

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Dr Syed Haris Ahmed is a highly esteemed and experienced consultant endocrinologist who possesses a notably high level of expertise in thyroid disorders, adrenal gland disorders, pituitary gland disorders, diabetes, osteoporosis, and transgender hormone replacement therapy. He is, at present, practising at the Spire Murrayfield Hospital in Wirral, Spire Yale Hospital in Wrexham, and The Grosvenor Nuffield Hospital in Chester. He has practicing privileges in CQC-certified practices in Liverpool.

Dr Ahmed, who is also the current diabetes antenatal services and diabetes technology lead at Countess of Chester Hospital, completed his specialist registrar training in endocrinology and general medicine in the Mersey region in 2013. He has experience in an array of conditions in the field of endocrinology, including chronic fatigue and sex hormone disorders.

His specialised diabetes-specific treatments include continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pump therapy. Dr Ahmed, who is a certified MRCP PACES examiner of the Royal College of Physicians, is also an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively to date within established peer-reviewed medical journals and publications, and is a member of the British Diabetic Association (Diabetes UK), the Society for Endocrinology and British Medical Association (BMA). 

He has presented posters and oral abstracts in national and international conferences. Impressively, Dr Ahmed successfully pioneered the use of Skype technology to improve antenatal patient care and overall experience. For this initiative, Dr Ahmed's antenatal team was awarded the Quality in Care (QiC) diabetes award 2019 in the Patient Care Pathway - ‘Telemedicine in Improving Care and Outcomes, in Antenatal Diabetes Patients’ category. He also received an award for Outstanding Patient Care at Countess of Chester Hospital in 2016.

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Mr Dipen Menon is a leading consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in Kettering who holds a special interest in routine and complex primary hip and knee replacements, revision hip and knee replacements, arthroscopic knee surgery, ACL reconstruction and foot and ankle surgery.

Mr Menon graduated with his degree in Medicine from the University of Madras in Chennai, India in 1985. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (in General Surgery) in 1994. He trained on the West of Scotland (Glasgow) Orthopaedic Training Programme for 3 years from 1993. Between 1997 and 1999 Mr Menon undertook fellowships in Limb reconstruction at The Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Unit, Chertsey, Surrey, Upper limb surgery at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital in Oswestry (Orthopaedic Centre of Excellence) and Hip, Knee & Revision Arthroplasty at The Wrightington Hospital for Joint Disease (International Orthopaedic centre of excellence). He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Trauma and Orthopaedics thereafter. He subsequently completed his training as a Senior Registrar (Type I training programme) on the Wessex training programme in Portsmouth from 2002 to 2003. He was awarded his Certificate of Completion of Surgical Training (CCST) and entry into the Specialist Register in Trauma and Orthopaedics in May 2003.

Mr Menon has published his research in many peer-reviewed journals. He holds teaching and training responsibilities and also offers courses to GPs on hip and knee pathways, forefoot and hindfoot problems and in the early diagnosis of infected joint replacements.

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Mr Paul John Tomlins is a leading consultant ophthalmologist based in Cheltenham and Gloucestershire who specialises in corneal and complex cataract surgery, including lamellar and penetrating corneal transplantations. In addition to cataract and cornea procedures, he is an expert in the treatment and management of keratoconus and ocular surface diseases, such as dry eye disease. Alongside his NHS post at Gloucestershire Hospitals, Mr Tomlins currently sees patients at his private practice and at Nuffield Health Cheltenham Hospital.

Mr Tomlins completed his medical training at the University of Birmingham in 2001 before going on to undertake his ophthalmological training at Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, in the West Midlands. He joined the University of Birmingham as a clinical lecturer in 2009, teaching medical students and developing his research interest in dry eye disease. His investigation of the immunology of the ocular surface in patients with severe dry eye disease would later win the Bron Award in 2013.

He then went on to accomplish a corneal and anterior segment surgery fellowship in 2014 at Nottingham University Hospital under the guidance of esteemed Professor Harminder Dua, acquiring specialist proficiency in complex corneal and ocular surface disease. That same year, Mr Tomlins obtained his FCROphth and was appointed locum consultant at Gloucestershire Hospitals. In 2015, he took up a position at Cheltenham General Hospital, where he continued his interest in simulated surgical teaching and developed the hospital’s corneal service, introducing corneal cross-linking techniques that prioritised patients and their needs. Mr Tomlins was awarded an MD from the University of Birmingham in 2018.

Besides his ophthalmology practice, Mr Tomlins publishes his academic work in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is an active member of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.

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Dr Abhay Bajpai is a highly experienced consultant cardiologist in who sees patients at Epsom Hospital, St George's Hospital, London, Ashtead Hospital and Spire St Anthony's Hospital who specialises in the management of heart rhythm disorders, autonomic dysfunction, PoTS syndrome, blackout, chest pain, breathlessness and cardiovascular screening and risk reduction.

He performs all varieties of complex and standard ablation procedures for correction of heart rhythm disorders, including atrial fibrillation, implantation of cardiac devices, including pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronisation devices for heart failure.

Dr Bajpai graduated in India and moved to the UK in 1999. After completing a period of research in the field of atrial fibrillation at St George's University Hospital, London. He pursued specialty training in cardiology and electrophysiology at major London hospitals, which included King's College Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital, and St George's Hospital. He gained additional electrophysiology experience at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital.

Dr Bajpai has written several book chapters and articles, which have been published in peer-reviewed journals. He is regularly involved as an investigator in multiple research projects in the area of atrial fibrillation and cardiac implantable devices at St George's University, London.

Dr Bajpai is the Medical Director for Surrey Arrhythmia Support Group, which is a patient charity that is dedicated to patient education and community screening programmes.

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Dr Laurence Maiden is a highly esteemed and experienced consultant physician and gastroenterologist who specialises in bowel cancer screening, abdominal pain and bloating, stomach pain and bloating, irritable bowel syndrome, performing colonoscopies, inflammatory bowel disease, as well as carrying out capsule endoscopies. He currently practises at the Spire Tunbridge Wells Hospital and Nuffield Health Hospital in Tunbridge Wells, the Kent-based Benenden Hospital, as well as Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. 

Dr Maiden's main areas of research interest include nutrition, liver disease, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, interventional endoscopy (polyp removal), as well as small bowel enteroscopy. Presently, he is Chief of Medicine and Emergency Care at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and is, impressively, only one of two officially accredited consultant colonoscopists for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in Tunbridge Wells. 

His role as nutrition clinical lead at Tunbridge Wells Hospital NHS has seen Dr Maiden notably develop original and effective pathways in relation to the management of specialised feeding (both parenteral and enteral) and of patients suffering from eating disorders. He was appointed Chief of Medicine and Emergency Care at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in 2018, a role which sees him responsible for overseeing three different directorates, 70 consultants and 300 nurses. 

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