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Mr Sai Kolli is a highly trained and skilled consultant ophthalmic surgeon with over 20 years of professional experience.

He has leading expertise in performing numerous surgeries, including cataract surgery and corneal surgery. In fact, Mr Kolli is the lead consultant for cataract and corneal surgery at University Hospitals Birmingham. Furthermore, he is one of the few consultants who have been fellowship trained in corneal and external disease as well as cataract and refractive surgery. He also regularly performs laser eye surgery, vision correction surgery, premium lens surgery and treatment for dry eye. 

Mr Kolli underwent extensive studies and training. He graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Cambridge followed by the acquisition of his membership of The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) in 2001. In 2005, he became a Fellow of the RCOphth and, in 2009, he achieved his PhD award after three years of academic research in stem cell biology. What's more, he completed his specialist training at the world-renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital where he started as a consultant in 2010.

As a national expert in cornea, cataract and refractive surgery, he lectures across the UK and internationally to share his experience and research with many medical professionals. 

Mr Kolli's knowledge and skill mean he can offer tailor-made treatment to ensure patients receive the best possible outcomes. He prides himself on his open and honest approach and provides first-class medical and surgical eye services to patients across the Birmingham region and beyond.

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Dr Sundeep Kaul is one of London's leading experts in both respiratory medicine and critical care. He sees patients at  Bupa Cromwell Hospital and his NHS base at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital.

Dr Kaul has a special interest in a wide range of areas including breathlessness, cough, weaning, non-invasive ventilation, COVID-19, sleep disorders, lung cancer, ILD, multi-resistant infections and bronchoscopy.

When it comes to patients impacted by COVID-19, Dr Kaul aims for total body optimisation and doesn't just focus on one organ. Dr Kaul has treated COVID-19 patients across the board, from those in intensive care units (ICUs) to people at home suffering from long COVID. Dr Kaul actively assists those who have symptoms of the disease via e-Consultation and appointments. Dr Kaul is at the forefront of efforts to treat coronavirus patients, making him extremely suited for offering second opinions and advice on managing covid-related complications.

Outside of his clinic, he is dedicated to passing on his expertise, serving as a senior lecturer at Imperial College, London and has delivered over 500 talks in primary care. He is often invited to appear as a guest speaker by such organisations as the British Thoracic Society.

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Dr Jonathan Garabette is an expert Consultant Psychiatrist in London who is a registered specialist in the fields of both general adult psychiatry and medical psychotherapy.  Dr Garabette's approach focuses on providing individualised, bespoke care, understanding the whole person rather than just the diagnosis, looking at multiple avenues to improve long term emotional and mental health and wellbeing.  These may include combinations of lifestyle modification, psychotherapy and medication.

He treats conditions such as depression, bipolar affective disorder, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, OCD, body dysmorphic disorder, eating disorders, psychosis, schizophrenia, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and personality disorders among others. He also specialises in providing second opinions and treatment of complex and 'treatment resistant' conditions.

As a dual specialist, Dr Garabette provides expert general adult psychiatric assessment, diagnosis and treatment, but also highly specialist individualised psychotherapeutic assessment, recommendations and therapy.  Dr Garabette also has extensive experience providing medicolegal reports and acting as an expert witness to the courts.  

Dr Garabette also has an interest in dietary, nutritional and lifestyle approaches to improving mental health including ways of modifying the body's stress response (the autonomic nervous system) and achieving and sustaining high level performance.

Dr Garabette trained as a medical doctor at Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School, University of London. He obtained a first-class degree in Neuroscience before graduating in Medicine and Surgery in 2004.

He then undertook specialist psychiatry training at the prestigious South London and Maudsley training scheme, and other renowned schemes in Oxford, South West London and at St George’s.

Dr Garabette qualified as a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry in 2012 and then undertook a further period of specialist training, qualifying as a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist in 2015.  He has held a number of consultant positions within the NHS as well as a number of senior training and supervision roles appointed by Health Education England, and works in private practice, offering face to face consultations in Harley Street and also video consultations.

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Mr Alex Torrie is a consultant spinal surgeon who holds regular private practice clinics across Gloucestershire. 

As a specialist in spinal surgery, he provides surgical management for issues involving the whole spine, the spinal cord and the nerves of the spine. To date, he has performed more than 1200 spinal and trauma operations. Among his specialist interests are sciatica, lumbar spinal stenosis, back pain, degenerative spinal conditions (of the whole spine) and spinal instability. Furthermore, he provides surgical care for trauma and sports injuries of the spine. 

Mr Torrie is extensively trained in a wide range of routine and complex procedures, such as discectomy, spinal cord decompression, spinal column reconstruction, nerve root blocks, kyphoplasty, fusion and sacroiliac joint injections. He is dedicated to developing and providing a comprehensive spinal service in Gloucestershire that reflect all his patients’ individual needs.

After undergoing training at the University of Bristol Medical School, he pursued basic and higher surgical training in trauma and orthopaedics on the Bristol Orthopaedic Registrar training scheme. He continued to hone his skills through a specialist neurosurgical complex cervical spinal fellowship and completed a doctorate in Anatomical Sciences investigating the aetiology of degenerate lumbar scoliosis.

Mr Torrie remains actively involved in clinical research and has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific research papers concerning a broad spectrum of spinal issues. His research includes the risk factors associated with degenerate spondylolisthesis, the influence of lumbar spine subtypes on intervertebral disc degeneration in the young, the basic science of spinal degeneration, the relationship between sacral kyphosis and pelvic incidence and factors influencing the diagnosis of spondylodiscitis.

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Mr Ajay Swaminathan is a leading consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Cheshire. As a specialist in gynaecology, reproductive medicine and sexual and reproductive healthcare, he assists patients with a wide range of conditions.

His private practice is based at Spire Regency Hospital in Macclesfield along with an online and ‘virtual practice’. His NHS practice is based at Mid Cheshire (Leighton) Hospital and at the Hewitt Fertility Centre (Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust). Within the field of gynaecology, he specialises in subfertility and laparoscopic surgery.

During his training in the UK, he was in the Mersey rotation. He also attended the Kiel School of Gynaecological Endoscopy in Germany and is a British Fertility Society (BFS) accredited specialist in pelvic ultrasound, as well as a BFS accredited trainer in pelvic ultrasound.

Ajay has received extensive training in transport IVF and has vast experience in laparoscopic procedures (key-hole surgeries) as well as day case procedures including surgeries for ectopic pregnancy, endometriosis, adhesiolysis, ovarian cyst removal, tubal surgery and laparoscopic hysterectomy. He is also the deputy lead for gynaecology oncology at Leighton Hospital and a member of the South Manchester Cancer Network MDT.
 
In his clinics, in addition to patients with general gynaecological problems, he consults patients with heavy periods, pelvic masses and fibroids, subfertility, pelvic pain, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, recurrent miscarriages and menopausal symptoms. At Leighton hospital, he implemented the enhanced recovery programme for gynaecological surgery.
 
Ajay was awarded the Diploma in Management in 2012 (University of London – London School of Economics and Political Sciences). He is involved in training candidates for the MRCOG examinations and was an RCOG moderator for the Enhanced Revision Programme. Ajay is the departmental lead for undergraduate medical education with the Manchester Medical School and is also a trained mentor for newly appointed consultants.

He was the principal investigator at Leighton Hospital for the GaPP2 trial which is a multi-centre randomised controlled trial looking at Gabapentin for pelvic pain. Ajay has presented research papers in various conferences including the European Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy Conference. He is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and specialist societies including the British Fertility Society and British Menopause Society.
 

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Miss Avni Batish is a highly regarded and experienced obstetrician and gynaecologist who possesses expertise in abnormal smear tests, colposcopies, endometriosis, hysteroscopies, menopause, and ovarian cysts, but to mention just a few. She currently practises privately at the London Gynaecology clinic. 

Miss Batish successfully completed her MBBS in at the University of Kerala in India in 2001. She then completed her obstetrics and gynaecology specialist training from London Deanery. During her training, she worked in various esteemed London hospitals. She is extremely skilled in areas such as colposcopy, advanced labour ward practice and hysteroscopy.

Miss Batish is an accredited colposcopist and a trainer and shows leadership skills, as she is currently the clinical lead (obstetrics) at her NHS hospital. She is involved with undergraduate teaching and is a faculty member for the Basic Practical skills course for the RCOG. Miss Batish is also very passionate when it comes to undertaking research in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology and thus far, has several publications under her belt. Her main areas of research interest topics include the management of CIN2, gestational Lyme disease, as well as the risk management of obese women undergoing major gynaecological surgery.

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Dr Laura Corsinovi is a very experienced consultant cardiologist in all aspects of general cardiology and with special interest in cardiac imaging, such as echocardiography, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI and she is working in Winchester and Basingstoke. She privately practises in Candover Clinic, Basingstoke and Sarum Road Hospital and Healthshare in Winchester. Dr Corsinovi sees both insured and self-funding patients and there is no need for a referral.

Dr Corsinovi is also a consultant in general medicine, and she is a strong believer of holistic approach to patient healthcare, including doctor–patient trust and open communication.

Her NHs practice is at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospitals and at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. She works closely with the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital in London, where she holds an Honorary Consultant Contract.

She looks after patients with chest pain, cardiac murmurs, breathlessness, swollen legs, dizziness, tiredness and fatigue, blackouts and palpitations. She is an expert in diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart problems such as valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, heart failure, coronary artery disease and arrhythmias.

Dr Corsinovi is highly qualified. After a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery, with honours, from the University of Genoa, Italy, she specialised in Cardiology, General Medicine and Geriatrics at the University Hospital in Turin, Italy. She was awarded with a PhD degree on heart failure in 2008.
 
Dr Corsinovi came to the UK in 2014 to work in the MRI Department at Guy's and St Thomas Hospital, London. She gained further experience at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital before working as consultant at her current NHS Trust, since 2016.

Dr Corsinovi has a special interest in cardiac Imaging. She performs cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography (transthoracic, stress and transoesophageal echocardiography). In her career has performed thousands of scans attaining the highest International Certifications (Level 3)* in all these cardiac modalities.

She offers face to face and telephone consultations, ECG and echocardiograms; her service also includes Holter monitoring and 24 hrs ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. She performs cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, stress echocardiograms, bubble and contrast echocardiograms and transoesophageal echocardiograms.

Dr Corsinovi is a respected name in medical research and has more than 20 publications in various high impact peer-reviewed journals and presented at National and International Conferences.

She busies herself in teaching junior doctors of different seniority and various healthcare professionals (i.e. nurses, cardiac physiologists, pharmacists). Before focusing on Medical Education she held the role of Governance Lead of the Cardiology Department at Hampshire Hospitals. She is the Director of very successful Hands-on Echocardiography Courses, accredited at national level by the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE). She is part of the national BSE assessors for the national certification of transthoracic Echocardiography.

She has been humbled by more than 50 Hampshire Hospitals WOW awards from NHS patients who wanted to express their gratitude for the treatment received. A patient said “I often use a Maya Angelou quote, which I think captures the approach of Dr Corsinovi and her team: People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”.

She is an advocate of healthy and active lifestyle to prevent diseases and is driven by providing excellent care for all her patients and contributing to developing the future generation of healthcare professionals.

* Level 3 international certifications in cardiac imaging are: European Society of Cardiology Certification for transthoracic echocardiogram and transoesophageal echocardiogram; Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Certification for cardiac MRI; Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography for CT coronary angiography. In the last years she has performed an average of 400 MRIs, 300 CTCAs and 350 advanced echocardiograms per year.

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Dr Sam Qureshi is a leading geriatrician who sees patients at Highgate Hospital and BMI Hendon Hospital. He also works as a consultant at the Royal Free NHS Trust.

Dr Qureshi, who specialises in stroke/TIA, complex co-morbidity, acute general and geriatric medicine. transient ischaemic attack, and instability and falls, qualified from the Royal Free Hospital in 2000, completing an MBBS. Following this, he successfully undertook training in general and geriatric medicine in a number of different London-based hospitals, including Charing Cross in Barnet and King's College London.

Dr Qureshi, who also notably completed a fellowship in stroke medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital in 2012, is a member of the British Association of Stroke Physicians, the British Geriatric Society, and the Royal Society of Medicine. He has also completed an MRCP, which he obtained from The Royal College of Physicians. 

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Dr Andy Li is an esteemed consultant gastroenterologist based in London, specifically serving the West Sussex region. With a focus on digestive health, his areas of expertise encompass a wide range of gastrointestinal issues, including the management of diarrhoea, constipation, acid reflux, indigestion (dyspepsia), abdominal pain and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
 
Dr Li began his medical studies at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, where he earned his MBBS degree in 1993. He also obtained a Bachelor of Science from the University of London before undertaking these medical studies. He was awarded FRCP status from the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2009.
 
Dr Li underwent specialist training in gastroenterology as part of the South East Thames Regional Rotation. During this period, he gained valuable experience at renowned teaching hospitals in London, including Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals and Kings College Hospital.
 
His contributions to the medical community extend beyond clinical practice. He is the founder and clinical lead for inflammatory bowel disease services at the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Additionally, he serves as a member of the Specialist Training Committee for Gastroenterology within the Kent, Surrey, and Sussex Deanery. His dedication to teaching and mentoring is evident through his involvement in the training of junior doctors, medical students, and nurses at Worthing Hospital.

Additionally, he is devoted to medical research and still recruits to multiple research studies during his NHS practice. His research publications have been widely publisehed across peer-reviewed journals.

Furthermore, Dr Li is an active member of multiple medical organisations, including the Royal College of Physicians (London), the British Society of Gastroenterology and the European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 

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Mr Aldrin Khan is a highly skilled consultant ophthalmologist with practice in Bingley and Leeds who specialises in surgery for cataracts, performing over 1,500 cataract operations a year with all complexity of cataract. He has performed over 10,000 procedures in total. With over 25 years’ experience in ophthalmology, Mr Khan is also an expert in glaucoma laser treatments and cornea transplant procedures, and has extensive experience providing multifocal /toric lenses for astigmatism correction as well. Mr Khan currently sees patients at The Yorkshire Clinic Bingley and at Newmedica Leeds.

Mr Khan, who also provides multifocal lens implants, qualified from the University of the West Indies before relocating to the UK. He successfully completed his surgical training in the North Thames, South Thames and the Yorkshire and Humber deaneries, while also working as an honorary fellow on the cataract, cornea and laser refractive surgery units at St James’ University and the prestigious Moorfields Eye Hospital. As a trainee, he undertook specialised clinical and laboratory research in endophthalmitis and gene therapy to the cornea at the renowned Institute of Ophthalmology, the largest site for ophthalmic investigation, treatment and medical education in Europe.

Upon the completion of his CCT, Mr Khan accomplished a prestigious fellowship in glaucoma surgery at York Hospital before taking up a consultant post at County Durham and Darlington Hospitals, where he also served as clinical audit and clinical governance lead. A fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Mr Khan has authored several publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a dedicated tutor for optometry students, and presented his clinical findings at national and international meetings. Mr Khan has been College Tutor at Bradford Royal Infirmary (from 2014 to 2019), and also has a passion for teaching/ mentoring trainee ophthalmologist.

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