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
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.
Dr Gaurav Atreja undertook his initial training and education in India. After completing his postgraduate training in paediatrics from reputed institutes in India, he moved to the UK in 2004. He has trained and worked in some of the most reputed hospitals in London before being accredited as a specialist in neonatal medicine and paediatrics.
He has extensive experience in paediatrics and neonatal medicine and he is currently a consultant neonatal paediatrician and is currently working at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. As a part of a dedicated neonatal service, he facilitated the first ever reported successful neonatal organ donation in the UK at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, London.
Dr Atreja strives to work towards developing and supporting evidence base in neonatal care to further minimise risk, as many aspects of neonatal care are still not evidence based which leads to confusion and ambiguity.
He is passionate about the quality of neonatal care and is always working towards improving it. Having originally trained in India, he is committed to improving the new-born care in India and the rest of the world.
Dr Atreja also speaks Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.
Dr Jayanta Banerjee graduated from Calcutta Medical College, India with a Gold Medal in internal medicine. Thereafter he received neonatology training in the UK and became a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Additional languages spoken: Bengali, Hindi
Dr Badr Chaban trained in neonatology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, University College London Hospital and the Royal London Hospital. He completed a master’s degree in advanced paediatrics and child health at University College London in 2013.
In 2013 he was appointed as a consultant neonatologist at Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust. In 2015 he was appointed as a neonatal consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, working at both Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital. Since 2014 he has been working as an associate director of the Centre of Perinatal Neurosciences at Imperial College, London.
He is closely involved in neonatal MR imaging and various cerebral MR biomarkers studies. His work entails detailed neurological assessment and monitoring growth of high risk babies and evaluating their developmental progress.
Languages spoken: Arabic
Ms Helen Cox graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa in 1985.
She completed her paediatric training at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Guy’s Hospital in London, and did research for her MD at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and the University of London.