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Biography
Mr Sanjiv Agarwal obtained his MBBS, MS (Gen Surg) qualification from India, and undertook urology training in the UK, gaining his FRCS (Gen Surg) and FRCS (Urol). He has undertaken fellowship training in uro-oncology and female urology at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI USA, and has a paediatric urology fellowship from the Sick Children’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Additional languages spoken: Hindi
Mr Ahmed Ahmed
Consultant upper GI and bariatric surgeon and clinical lead – bariatric surgery 4305462Biography
Mr Ahmed Ahmed is a consultant in upper gastrointestinal surgery and lead bariatric surgeon at Imperial Weight Centre. He has performed over 6,000 laparoscopic bariatric procedures, including over 4,000 gastric bypasses. He has trained in general and upper GI surgery in the UK and also at Stanford University and the University of Rochester in the US. He trains other surgeons in the field of bariatric surgery and is on the faculty of numerous courses on bariatric surgery.
He is also actively involved in bariatric surgery research and has numerous publications in peer reviewed journals. He is a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), International Federation of Surgery for Obesity (IFSO), Society of American Gastroenterological and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Association of Upper GI Surgeons (AUGIS) and the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS). In 2007, he was awarded the International Federation of Surgery for Obesity (IFSO) scholarship.
Mr Ahmed is often consulted by other professionals and medicolegal experts for his opinions on complex bariatric surgery cases. His Imperial Weight Centre bariatric surgery unit in London has been designated as an international centre of excellence for bariatric surgery and he now sits on the prestigious International Bariatric Surgery Review Committee (IBSRC), comprised of top bariatric surgeons from around the world who evaluate bariatric surgery units worldwide for ‘centre of excellence’ status.
Additional languages spoken: French
Biography
Faisal Ahmed is the lead Glaucoma Ophthalmic Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, as well as an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London.
Receiving his MBBS from St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London and BSc (Hons) from Imperial College London, Mr. Ahmed was also a trainee at the world-renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital. It was here that he began his specialism in ophthalmology.
Faisal is one of the leading eye surgeons in the UK, performing innovative combined cataract and glaucoma surgeries. He is regularly invited to speak at and chair national and international specialty meetings and conferences (including the Royal Society of Medicine).
His papers are regularly published in scientific journals and he is also an author on new glaucoma surgeries on the Royal College of Ophthalmology UK’s award-winning NHS e-learning website.
Faisal has won national prizes for developing an electronic patient record system, as well as for presentations at surgical meetings.
Biography
Prof Hashim U. Ahmed qualified from the University of Oxford where he attended St Peter’s College and Linacre College. Whilst he was a student he was awarded the William Osler Prize in Medicine. He then held house office posts in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham and University Hospital Manchester before returning to Oxford for an anatomy prosector post.
Prof Ahmed then held senior house jobs in surgery on the Royal Free Hospital London rotation followed by specialist registrar posts at West Middlesex Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and Imperial College London, University College Hospital and Watford General Hospital as part of the Imperial College urology rotation.
He was a Pelican Cancer Foundation research fellow, followed by a Medical Research Council (MRC) clinician research training fellowship at University College London at which time a number of imaging and focal therapy trials began. His research interests are in health technology evaluation including multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), histoscanning, tissue type imaging, as well as therapeutic interventions such as high intensity focused ultrasound, irreversible electroporation, photodynamic therapy, cryotherapy and radiofrequency ablation.
He has completed numerous phase I/II clinical trials evaluating the role of focal therapy in prostate cancer and is lead principal investigator and co-principal investigator in a number of multicentre trials including the UK National Institute for Health Research-Health Technology Assessment (NIHR-HTA) funded National Cancer Research Network (NCRN) PROMIS study evaluating the role of multi-parametric MRI in men with a raised PSA using template prostate mapping as the reference standard. Also for NCRN INDEX, a multicentre focal therapy study using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) with three-year follow-up and NCRN FORECAST. He previously held a £1.2 million MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship for five years and currently holds a £2 million Senior Clinical Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust.
He has been visiting professor to University of California, Los Angeles as well as Tokyo, Weill-Cornell and Detroit universities and has given over 30 plenary lectures at national and international urology, oncology and imaging meetings. The team he led recently was awarded the BMJ/BMA Innovation Award 2015 and the Health Services Journal Acute Sector Innovation Award 2016.
Biography
Dr Tina Ainsley has been a consultant since 1996.
Biography
Dr Abosede Ajayi trained at Imperial College School of Medicine. Following a period of training in New Zealand and at Cambridge, she returned to London to train in emergency medicine and sports medicine.
She took up her first consultant post in 2009 and returned to Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as a consultant in 2013 with ongoing sports medicine roles within the NHS and as consultant to the British Olympic diving team.
Languages spoken: French, German, Yoruba
Mr Chadwan Al Yaghchi
Consultant laryngologist and ear, nose and throat surgeon 6048397Ears, nose and throatBiography
Mr Chadwan Al Yaghchi is a consultant otolaryngologist at the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction and Imperial Voice and Swallowing Centre. He completed his higher surgical training in ear, nose and throat (ENT) in the London North Thames regional rotation.
During his training he developed a specialist interest in laryngology (throat disorders) with a specialist interest in airway stenosis (narrowing of the airway) and dysphagia (swallowing disorders). He visited various international centres including a visiting fellowship to UC Davies Center for Voice and Swallowing, Sacramento, USA. In addition to his adult service, he is an honorary consultant at The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust where he manages children with complex airway, respiratory and swallowing conditions.
Mr Al Yaghchi is a founding member of the British Laryngological Association and has served on the council since 2013. He is currently the associate honorary treasurer.