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Dr Natalie Phillips is a consultant gastroenterologist with specialist training in hepato-pancreatobiliary medicine. Her specialist interests are gastroscopy, colonoscopy, ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and hepatobiliary medicine.

Dr Phillips began her studies at the renowned Guy's and St Thomas' hospital and qualified with Honors in 2000. She then earned her MBBS at the Guy's King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine in 2003 and has since earned her MRCP followed by her MRes with research in pancreatitis. In 2012, she studied in an international Fellowship in EUS/ERCP in Sydney, Australia, at the Royal Northshore Hospital.

She is a consultant within the GI Doctors group and this group consists of some of the top London specialists in diagnosing and treating gastrointestinal conditions. Dr Phillips attends private patients at the London Clinic on 116 Harley Street and at the Sainsbury Wing of Hammersmith Hospital in West London.

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Mr Harbhajan Plaha is a top consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in Brentwood with over 40 years of experience. His areas of expertise lie in hip and knee replacement, hand surgery, foot and ankle surgery, knee arthroscopy and soft tissue and joint injections.

He began his post-graduate medical training in 1972 in India, obtaining his fellowship from the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Bombay in 1975 and masters in surgery from the University of Bombay. He received broad general, paediatric and vascular surgery training whilst working in major trauma centres in Bombay. He also obtained knowledge in plastic surgery, maxillo-facial surgery and the management of upper and lower limb injuries, building up a comprehensive understanding of different surgical specialities before pursuing a career in orthopaedics.

After moving to England, he continued training in orthopaedics where he obtained an FRCS Edinburgh, FRCS England & FRCS (Orth) Edinburgh. He finished his training in orthopaedic surgery in many different hospitals in London.

Mr Plaha is now a leading consultant orthopaedic surgeon practising in various private hospitals in the UK. He has a special interest in both hand and foot surgery and lower limb reconstructive surgery. He often performs very complex hip and knee revision surgery.

Mr Plaha published widely and frequently attends training courses in the UK and around Europe to stay up-to-date with new techniques.

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Mr Gidon Ellis is a leading consultant urological surgeon in London specialising in general urology, kidney stones, and the management of urinary symptoms and prostate problems in men.

He is skilled in numerous aspects of urology, including the assessment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men, treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) with HoLEP and TURP and the management of kidney stones with extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) and ureteroscopy and laser. He regularly assesses patients with haematuria (blood in urine), which can be a sign of bladder cancer or urothelial cancers of the upper urinary tracts; conditions which he is an expert in managing also. He treats patients with scrotal swelling, difficulty with the foreskin, urinary tract infections, and elevated PSA blood test, as well as other abnormal investigations.

Mr Ellis offers a patient-centred holistic practice with the needs of his patients at the centre of his decision making and treatment selection. The satisfaction of his patients is paramount and is reflected in the excellent feedback he consistently receives from those he treats. His surgical practice is honed towards minimally invasive endoscopic treatments, ensuring that his patients can have the best available treatments and then return to their normal lives as quickly as possible.

In 2012 Mr Ellis ranked number one in the UK national selection process and went on to complete his higher urological training in North London, which included a year at the renowned Institute of Urology at University College London Hospitals where he undertook further subspecialist training in endourology and kidney stones. At the end of his training he was awarded The Urology Foundation Endourology Travelling Fellowship Award. He went on to complete a fellowship position in HoLEP at Luton & Dunstable Hospital where he gained extensive experience in minimally-invasive low power HoLEP.

He is a core member of the bladder cancer and kidney stone multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) at Royal Free London NHS Trust, where he holds an NHS consultant post, and provides endourology expertise to the renal cancer MDT also. He runs the male lower urinary tract clinic at Royal Free London. Private patients can access his highly professional and personalised patient care at The Royal Free Hospital Private Patients Unit, The Platinum Medical Centre and Wellington Hospital in Central London, and Hadley Wood Hospital in North London.

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Dr Maciej Danilewicz is a consultant psychiatrist who specialises in adult psychiatry, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.

After graduating from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland with his medical degree in 1997, Dr Danilewicz then completed his post-graduate degree in cognitive psychotherapy at Oxford University. In 2013 he completed a post-graduate degree in psychiatry at Cardiff University.

Amongst his special interests is the recognition, management and treatment of substance misuse amongst patients suffering from major mental illness and development and efficacy assessment of the services.

Dr Danilewicz is on the Myogenes genetic testing panel and specialises in prescribing for the psychiatric part of the DNA test. This method can improve approximately 80% of the accuracy in prescribing medication. 

Following the test, Dr Danilewicz can suggest the choice of medication based on configuration of the receptors in the brain and activity of the liver.

This almost eliminates the trial and error often found in prescribing and shortens the time to find the right medication for the person. 

It is very important for people who are off work due to psychiatric disorders, for example, those who suffer from depression, as he can suggest an antidepressant that works. This is called pharmacogenomic prescribing and is sometimes known as personalised medicine.


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Professor Nick Makwana is a distinguished consultant paediatrician based in Birmingham, specialising in child allergies, paediatrics, immunotherapy, eczema, food allergies, and hay fever. With over 25 years of experience, Professor Makwana has demonstrated expertise in providing comprehensive care for children with various medical needs.
 
He currently serves as a consultant paediatrician at Edgbaston Private Medical Practice, Consulting Rooms Birmingham, and the Birmingham Treatment Centre.  His NHS practice is based at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust where he has led the development of a nationally recognised paediatric allergy service that sees over 3000 children per year.
 
Professor Makwana's academic journey began with an MBChB from the University of Birmingham in 1996. He furthered his education with a PCME from the University of Wolverhampton in 2004 before going on to graduate with an MD from the University of Liverpool in 2010. He then qualified as an Accredited European Paediatric Allergist through the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2016.
 
In addition to his clinical practice, Professor Makwana has made significant contributions to research and education. He has served as the Group Director for Women and Child Health at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals (2018) and Chair of the Paediatric Committee of BSACI (2021). He also serves as the Paediatric MBChB Curriculum Lead at the University of Birmingham since 2017. He has co-authored the national BSACI guidance on milk allergy and use of peanut immunotherapy.  Professor Makwana's efforts have been recognised with accolades such as Fundraiser of the Year and being highly commended for the Excellence in Customer Care Award from the Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust.
 
Professor Makwana is dedicated to providing compassionate care and advancing the field of paediatrics. His unwavering commitment to his patients and contributions to medical education make him a highly respected figure in the healthcare community.

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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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As a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, Mr Simon Newman specialises in treating hip conditions. He has extensive experience in performing hip replacements, hip arthroscopy, revision hip replacement, muscle/tendon surgery around the hip and pelvic osteotomy. He also specialises in the assessment and treatment of hip pain, hip dysplasia and hip fractures. He currently practises at a host of different locations including: King Edward VII Hospital and The Lister Hospital, Chelsea. He sees adolescent patients at the Portland Hospital or HCA Chiswick Outpatient Centre.

Mr Newman is committed to providing evidence-based treatments to his patients. He also contributes to the research field of hip and knee surgery by leading and participating in various projects. He has published over 60 papers and conference presentations and has received several awards for his research work. Notably, he collaborates with hip and knee research teams at the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and Bournemouth University. In 2016, Mr Newman completed a PhD at Imperial College London, where he worked on innovative implant coating materials and patient-specific guides for surgery.

Mr Newman undertook a specialist hip fellowship at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, which is well-known for its joint replacement surgery. He then received a second fellowship at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, where he gained specialist training in keyhole hip surgery (arthroscopy). He has also acquired highly specialised training in surgery for hip dysplasia at Guy’s Hospital in London. In 2023, after almost 6 years as a consultant at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, where he developed services for peri-acetabular osteotomy and day-case hip replacement, he was recruited as a specialist consultant in hip surgery at the world renowned Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London.

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Mr Ian Franklin is a full-time private venous specialist, whose areas of expertise include varicose and thread veins, aesthetic phlebology, pelvic vein congestion, deep vein thrombosis, phlebitis, leg swelling and leg ulcers. He is also an expert in the management of COVID-related thrombosis.

Mr Franklin practised as an NHS doctor for 23 years, which included 12 years as consultant vascular surgeon at Imperial College NHS Trust where he performed a full range of arterial, venous and emergency vascular surgery. During this time, he also introduced many minimally invasive techniques and treatments to the NHS. For 10 years, Mr Franklin was also a programme director of the world-renowned, annual International Charing Cross Venous Course in which 5,000 surgeons attended every year.

As well as chairing the Circulation Foundation, a UK vascular disease charity, Mr Franklin was a former council member of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland for around 4 years. He is now the President of the Royal Society of Medicine Venous Forum and trains other specialists in modern vein techniques all over the world. Throughout his career, he has also written many scientific papers, book chapters and a surgical textbook.

Mr Franklin is one of a very small number of vascular surgeons in the UK with extensive acute COVID-19 experience. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Ian Franklin returned to the NHS Charing Cross Hospital after suspending his private practice and spent several weeks on the frontline attending COVID-19 patients. During which, it became clear that many of those with COVID-19 develop thrombotic (blood clot) problems that can lead to serious effects on blood circulation. Ian Franklin has now reopened his private practice.

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Dr Michael Van Der Watt is renowned and patient-oriented consultant cardiologist with over 20 years of experience, who specialises in palpitations, syncope and angina alongside heart murmur, heart failure and pacemaker treatments. He privately practices at Spire Bushey Hospital while his NHS base is West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where he is the medical director at Watford General Hospital. 

Dr Van Der Watt is highly qualified with varying experience in different areas of medicine. He specialised in internal medicine in South Africa and then moved to the UK in 1995 to move into in the cardiology specialty. Furthermore, he is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Alongside the specialities mentioned above, he expertly carries out treatments in acute coronary syndromes, valvular heart disease and arrhythmias alongside fainting, chest pain and breathlessness. His clinical interests are invasive cardiology, echocardiology and pacemaker implantation.  

Dr Van Der Watt's clinical research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals, while he is an active member of numerous professional organisations including the European Cardiac Society, (ECS) the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) and British Cardiac Society (BCS). He is also a member of the Royal College of Physicians.

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Dr Naeem Ahmed is a highly skilled, qualified, and experienced consultant musculoskeletal radiologist who specialises in CT scans, gamma knife, musculoskeletal ultrasound scans, MRI scans, testicular ultrasound scans, and radiofrequency ablation. He is, at present, practising at the Alliance Medical Marylebone clinic. 

His multifaceted career spans clinical practice, research, and impactful leadership. Dr Ahmed’s journey began at Guy’s, King’s, and St Thomas’ Hospital in London, where he completed his undergraduate medicine degree in 2010. His exceptional performance earned him the prestigious St Thomas’ Hospital Cup, a testament to his early promise. Following his medical studies, Dr Ahmed embarked on a radiology career where he honed his skills during an academic foundation training at King’s College Hospital.

Notably, Dr Ahmed established Selfless, a global health NGO dedicated to providing healthcare to underserved populations. Additionally, he co-founded the MedTech startup ImproveWell, aiming to enhance healthcare quality through staff engagement. Dr Ahmed’s contributions have not gone unnoticed. He received the Point of Light award from former Prime Minister David Cameron for his exceptional service. Not only that, but at the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019, he was awarded the British Empire Medal.

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