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Biography
Mr Hamid Abboudi is a Consultant Urologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones, benign prostate diseases including benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), recurrent urinary tract infections and bladder cancer.
Following his graduation from St George’s University of London, Mr Abboudi completed his higher urological training in North London, including a fellowship year at the Institute of Urology, University College London Hospitals.
He subspecialised in endourology and the minimally invasive management of kidney stones using laser technology, ureteric stricture disease and urothelial cancer of the kidney and ureter.
During his fellowship year, Mr Abboudi was awarded the prestigious British Association of Urological Surgeons Travelling Fellowship Grant. He travelled to Columbia University Medical Centre in New York City and to the city of Agra in India at the Centre for Minimally-Invasive Endourology, Global Rainbow Hospital, where he enhanced his skills in the medical and surgical management of advanced kidney stone disease.
Mr Abboudi has also developed subspecialty interests in laser prostate surgery (HoLEP) for the treatment of men with urinary problems, as well as other minimally invasive prostate treatments such as Rezum (water vapour therapy) and Urolift. He also leads a weekly outpatient clinic specialising in the diagnosis and laser treatment of bladder cancer. He is a core member of the bladder cancer and kidney stone multi-disciplinary teams at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Mr Abboudi has a strong academic background and is involved in recruiting patients into national trials, publishing in peer-reviewed medical journals and regularly presenting at national and international conferences. He has been awarded numerous postgraduate research prizes and is also a peer reviewer for several urology journals.
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
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.
Biography
Dr Afshin Alavi completed his medical education at the University of Cologne in Germany, and completed his radiology training at the universities of Cologne, Bonn and Dusseldorf.
