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Mr Jehangir Mahaluxmivala (pronounced ma-ha-lux-mi-vala) is a highly experienced orthopaedic and trauma surgeon specialising in hip and knee joints, including hip and knee replacements, complex knee replacement revisions, and arthroscopic knee surgery. 
He can provide expert opinion on knee and hip pathologies and uses the most up-to-date, evidence-based procedures with a focus on safety, and helping patients understand the risk-benefit ratio of joint replacement surgery.

As a former national level badminton player, Mr Mahaluxmivala understands the need for joint replacement treatment arising from a sports career. His work in hip, knee and lower limb procedures is highly regarded and he has received a Clinical Excellence Award from the Princess Alexandra Hospital, as well as being awarded Trainer of the Year by the Royal London Hospital Rotation.

He has been an invited guest speaker at national and international conferences, including being a former invited speaker on performing knee replacements at the combined British Orthopaedic Association and Irish Orthopaedic Association Annual Conference, and he is the co-founder and co-director of the Royal College of Surgeons of England FRCS(Orth) Course.

Mr Mahaluxmivala has a special interest in patient education and is a surgeon designer for animations for hip and knee replacement surgery, done specifically to educate parents and help them to understand their forthcoming surgery. This was shortlisted for the NHS Innovation Awards.
He has also published peer-reviewed scientific papers and has been an invited chapter author for the prestigious Oxford Textbook of Surgery. Mr Mahaluxmivala is also on the editorial board for the Journal of Surgical Simulation and on the faculty of numerous teaching courses, including the Cambridge FRCS(Orth) Course and the Harlow Knee Replacement Course. 

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Dr Sarah Partridge is a renowned consultant clinical oncologist in London. She offers patients personalised and holistic care during their cancer treatment, providing them with an opportunity to engage in hypnotherapy to achieve profound alterations in mood, well-being and symptom control.

Dr Partidge is a leading expert in her field who works closely with surgical and nursing teams. Her areas of expertise consist of thyroid cancer and head and neck cancer, including cancers of the larynx (voice box), tongue, tonsils and other rarer sites. She supervises and creates management plans for patients' individual needs, which can involve curative treatments with radiotherapy, postoperative radiotherapy treatments, chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

She graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in 1990, following which she completed five years of postgraduate specialist training in oncology in London, based between Charing Cross, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Mount Vernon hospitals. She has also completed a diploma with distinction in clinical hypnotherapy. Since 2002, she has practised at Charing Cross Hospital, which is where she developed a service for cancer patients as part of her role as lead for complementary therapy services.

Furthermore, Dr Partridge plays an active role in specialist training support within oncology as well as participating in the education of medical students. She also is on the Council for Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine, promoting wider recognition and education regarding hypnosis.

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Dr Bessam Farjo is the founding director of the renowned and award-winning Farjo Hair Institute in Manchester and London. After graduating from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1998, he founded Farjo Hair Institute in 1992. Since then, Dr Farjo has been delivering top-quality hair restoration for thousands of patients. He is considered one of the UK's leading hair loss experts and one of the world’s top hair transplant surgeons.

Dr Farjo is a Past President of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery and the British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery, and past Medical Director of the Institute of Trichologists. He is also an active researcher with current research projects in collaboration with the Universities of Manchester, London, Birmingham, Bradford and Durham. 

The Farjo Hair Institute is internationally known and receives thousands of patients every year from around the world. Having undergone a hair transplant himself, while training in hair surgery, Dr Farjo believes that his experience allows him to see the procedure from the patient's point of view.  Dr Farjo is committed to providing the highest quality of care and ensuring that each patients' hair restoration experience is the best it could possibly be.

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Mr Matthew Ricks is a leading consultant orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in upper limb surgery. His areas of expertise include shoulder surgery, hand and wrist surgery and upper limb joint replacement alongside cuff repair, labral repair for shoulder instability and Dupuytren’s contracture. He privately practices at Sussex Premier Health Hastings, The Horder Centre and The Montefiore Hospital. His NHS base is East Sussex Healthcare Trust.

Mr Ricks is highly qualified with a first class honours BSc and two Master's Degrees. He completed his orthopaedic surgical training in the Wessex region. Here, he spent time doing complex tertiary trauma and elective upper limb work at a trauma unit. He then went on to undertake international upper limb fellowships in Nice, France and Melbourne, Australia. He also did an upper limb fellowship at dedicated orthopaedic hospital at Wrightington Hospital and was subsequently appointed as a consultant there.

Furthermore he was awarded the prestigious BESS travelling shoulder fellowship where he visited North America, and the Watanabe travelling fellowship. He has also been awarded the Ethicon and Barbers awards, and has spent time abroad developing upper limb operative skills.

Mr Ricks, who previously help committee positions in the European Shoulder and Elbow Society and the British Hand Society, is a member of both of these organisations. He's also a member of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society, and the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society.                

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Dr Vanessa Eisman is a highly accomplished general practitioner based in London. She specialises in health check-ups, women's health, paediatrics, child development, mental health assessment, and preventive medicine.

Dr Eisman qualified in medicine from the University of Cape Town in 1996 and began work in general practice in 2004. With wide ranging expertise as a GP, she holds diplomas in obstetrics and gynaecology, and family planning. She is also an appointed member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Dr Eisman works exclusively in private practice and sees patients at Eisman and Myers GP Practice at HCA Golders Green Outpatients and Diagnostics.

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Dr Yohan Samarasinghe is a highly esteemed consultant in general internal medicine and clinical pharmacology, based in Frimley. He specialises in diabetes and hypertension from his private clinics at both the Frimley Park Hospital and Spire Clare Park Hospital, Surrey.

He grew up in South East London, and was educated at Dulwich College. After training at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School for his MBBS, he spent his junior years in London and the South East practising a variety of medical specialities. His registrar years in clinical pharmacology and general internal medicine were spent mostly at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. There he received valuable training in drug trials in the Kobler HIV Centre. He then went on to complete two and a half years of research for his MD at King’s College Hospital in the field of diabetes and was mentored by some of the best specialists in the field, like Michael Feher and Stephanie Amiel.

Having completed training, Dr Samarasinghe worked as a locum diabetes consultant at King’s and worked as a locum consultant in acute medicine at West Middlesex Hospital, in west London, before being appointed a permanent position as a consultant in acute medicine and diabetes at Frimley Park Hospital in 2009. Dr Samarasinghe is now the medical directorate lead for clinical governance at Frimley Park Hospital and chair of the drugs and therapeutics committee there.

Dr Samarasinghe has published numerous peer-reviewed publications in his areas of research, which include diabetes, insulin resistance and clinical pharmacology (drugs and their side effects). He is a member of a number of organisations, including the British Medical Association and Diabetes UK. Research interests include; diabetes, hypertension, problems with high lipids, including cholesterol and dyslipidaemias.

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 Dr Nikesh Malik is a leading consultant cardiologist and interventionalist with over 20 years’ experience based in London. He concentrates on multiple cardiac issues and specialises in coronary angioplasty, coronary artery disease and hypertension, as well as interventional cardiology, arrhythmia and palpitations.
 
Dr Malik studied medicine at the prestigious St George's Medical School, University of London. Following his studies, he pursued further training at St George's Hospital in London. He completed his medicine residency at University of Leicester.
 
He is actively involved in research, with a keen interest in prevention and treatment of coronary stent thrombosis and intravascular imaging. He has worked as a co-ordinator and a co-investigator for several national and international clinical trials and research studies.
 
Dr Malik is also heavily involved in teaching, boasting several year’s experience working as a clinical supervisor to cardiology trainees in his NHS practices. He has also organised and taught numerous training courses for both cardiology trainees and consultant colleagues. 
 
He has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and has written several book chapters.
 
Dr Malik is a member of various medical organisations, including Royal College of Physicians, and The European Society of Cardiology.
 

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Mr Nicholas Gibbins is an award-winning London based consultant otorhinolaryngologist and ENT specialist. He has a special interest in voice disorders and the care of the professional voice, as well as performing salivary gland and thyroid surgery, while also treating more general ENT complaints. He primarily specializes and has gained a reputation for dealing with complex voice and throat symptoms and is a world lead in the treatment of vocal fold scar and sulcus. Mr Gibbins is also renowned for his work in the diagnosis of head and neck cancers.

Mr Gibbins completed his initial medical training at Guy's Hospital in London in 1998, then going on to complete further training in The UK and Australia, including work in paediatric ENT at Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 2011 he received a medical doctorate for his advanced research into tongue cancers from the University of Sussex. For this work he was also awarded the gold medal at the ENT masterclass in 2011. That same year he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, having been awarded membership in 2003. Mr Gibbins was appointed as a consultant otorhinolaryngologist in 2012 at University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich where he continues to work as the head and neck cancer lead. There, he has pioneered referral streamlining for patients with suspected head and neck cancers and is also responsible for the running of the corresponding thyroid team. He is expert in thyroid, parathyroid and salivary gland surgery. As well as his consultant position, Mr Gibbins also currently  works in private practice, treating adults and children. 

In more recent years, Mr Gibbins has become widely renowned for his work with professional voice care, treating singers, actors and performers. He is clinical director and co-lead of the Voice Service in his NHS Trust and was awarded the Van Lawrence Prize in 2016 and the David Howard Prize in 2017 for his research in this field. Mr Gibbins is a member of a variety of respected associations relevant to his areas of specialisation, including the British Laryngological Association and the British Voice Association. 

Mr Gibbins is passionate about teaching and is dedicated to passing on his expertise. He runs the London ENT courses and has published numerous book chapters and articles on his specialist areas. He is also the national e-learning lead for laryngology (voice) and an examiner for the European Board Exam in ENT. 

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Dr Thomas Sheeran is a leading consultant rheumatologist with more than 35 years of professional expertise.

He aims to provide first-class care to all patients. Being a highly trained and skilled expert in all aspects of rheumatology, he offers the diagnosis and management of rheumatoid arthritis, Raynaud's disease, scleroderma, osteoarthritis and SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus) among numerous other conditions. He also assists patients with sports injuries.

Dr Sheeran has been the clinical lead for rheumatology for the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Foundation Trust since 2015, managing rheumatology services across the Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire areas. Private patients can access his leading medical services at the renowned Spire Little Aston Hospital.

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Mr Soumendra Datta is a highly skilled and dedicated consultant urologist based in Colchester and Chelmsford who specialises in lower urinary tract dysfunction and kidney stones. He is a leading expert in all aspects of the bladder, kidneys and urological conditions which affect men’s genitalia and prostate, and has particular expertise in laser surgery for prostate enlargement. When it comes to urinary stone disease, Mr Datta is highly trained and experienced in treating this condition with minimally invasive surgery and working towards the prevention of stones.

Within his range of specialist treatments, Mr Datta is skilled in both medical and surgical management plans for his patients’ condition, providing top-quality care for each and every one. He also provides paediatric urology services and care for women’s urological conditions.

Mr Datta received his first medical qualification in 1997, at the renowned University College London (UCL), where he graduated with an intercalated degree in neuroscience and a distinction in medicine and surgery. He undertook his basic training on the Hammersmith surgical rotation before going on to accomplish higher surgical training on the Imperial urology rotation. Mr Datta went on to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, graduating in 2012 as an urological surgeon with a masters and doctoral theses. Mr Datta is currently a consultant urological surgeon at Springfield Hospital, Ramsay Health Care and East Suffolk and North Essex NHS, where he is also the clinical director for urological and vascular surgery.

Besides his practice, Mr Datta devotes his time to research, including research into urinary tract stones and their prevention. He also contributes to the field of urology through the teaching and training of future urological specialists and is qualified in medical education. Mr Datta pursues this profession today as the undergraduate tutor for urology at Colchester Hospital and holding senior lecturer posts at Anglia Ruskin University and Queen Mary University of London,

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