e-Consultation with Internal medicine specialists

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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 Arnold Deering is a vastly experienced Consultant Physician based in Cheltenham, Gloucester and Worcester who specialises in general (internal) medicine, stroke medicine and syncope (fainting).  Dr Deering was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and later graduated from The Queen's University of Belfast. Portora is one of the oldest schools in Ireland, having been granted a Royal Charter in 1608. Famous alumni include Oscar Wilde. Dr Deering's specialist medical training was at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. In 1991 he was appointed as consultant physician at Cheltenham General Hospital. Dr Deering retired from NHS practice in 2020 but still holds an Honorary Consultant Physician contract with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  Dr Deering established the Cheltenham Syncope Service, one of the first of its kind in the UK, in 1992. The service specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of unexplained Transient Loss of Consciousness (TLoC). It also provides tilt table testing. Dr Deering is a leader in the diagnosis and management of Autonomic Dysfunction (Dysautonomia) including Autonomic Mediated Syncope and Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS). He is also a leader in the diagnosis and management of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). Dr Deering is an International MRCP (PACES) Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians. He has published numerous peer-reviewed publications in medical journals. 

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During the coronavirus pandemic, Professor Lobo is aware that many patients have concerns about hypertension, their medications and the risk of COVID-19. As such there are two things to be aware of:   1. The following link will give you free access to trustworthy information on these issues from the International Society of Hypertension which is available to all-comers: https://ish-world.com/news/a/A-statement-from-the-International-Society-of-Hypertension-on-COVID-19/   2. Please be aware that ALL insurers are currently covering as usual for remote consultations and Professor Lobos continues to run virtual clinics by telephone to provide ongoing care for his patients whilst also contributing to the NHS frontline at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. It may be possible to also have video calls. Professor Melvin Lobo is a pioneering cardiovascular physician and clinical hypertension specialist, based in London. He is renowned for his work as a specialist in all forms of blood pressure disorders, and has been involved in a number of key clinical studies of device-based therapies for these conditions. He is an internationally recognised specialist in hypotension (low blood pressure) and highly variable BP disorders and circulatory conditions including PoTS and fainting disorders. His group has been involved in novel treatments (some first in man) to help patients with these diagnoses. To assist with the diagnosis and management of complex circulatory conditions, he set up the Barts Autonomic Laboratory in 2012 staffed with experts in neurophysiology and haemodynamics. Professor Lobo is director of the renowned Bart's Blood Pressure Clinic in London, which has been recognised as a Hypertension Centre of Excellence by the European Society of Hypertension. The centre has become the premier UK centre for trials of device-based therapy of hypertension. He is a specialist advisor to NICE on interventional therapy of hypertension, and has authored UK and European guidance on renal denervation. Dr Lobo is an NHS Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at Bart's and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed articles for medical journals and medical textbooks.

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Dr Tarun Solanki is a highly-experienced consultant physician in general and geriatric medicine based at the Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital.He specialises in all aspects of geriatric care, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease, perioperative care of the elderly, Parkinson’s disease, falls and funny turns and stroke. After graduating from the University of Wales, Cardiff he specialised in geriatrics and completed a master's degree in gerontology at King’s College London. In 2002, he was nominated a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London. He is currently the Chair of the England Council of the British Geriatrics Society. Dr Solanki has a research interest in vitamin D and bone disease and as a geriatrician, he has a vast amount of experience in managing complex patients with multiple organ diseases. He set up and oversaw the osteoporosis service for the Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust and also developed an award-winning orthogeriatric service. He was also awarded the National Osteoporosis Foundation Gold Star for the Fracture Liaison Service he set up. He is passionate about patient safety and quality of care and was the British Geriatrics Society Lead for Quality and Safety. He has a keen interest in education and training of doctors having been responsible for the education supervision of numerous specialist registrars in geriatrics, many of whom now practice as consultants. He is also an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians.

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Dr Mashkur Khan is a leading London-based consultant physician, with a special interest in geriatric medicine and diseases common in the elderly population. From his main base at New Victoria Hospital, and his private clinics across London, Epsom, Weybridge and Guildford, he provides clinical excellence in all aspects of general medicine, deals with multi-system pathology and has vast experience in multi-system diseases which affect the quality of life of the patient, complex fainting and blackouts, along with patients who present with an acute crisis, diagnostic dilemmas and atypical presentations. Alongside his clinical practice at New Victoria Hospital and the Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital, Dr Khan also devotes time to teaching and examining future doctors, and is an active member of a number of associations in his field.

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