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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.
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Dr Syed Babar trained in radiology at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He obtained a fellowship in body imaging at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.
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Professor Tara Barwick attended Edinburgh University Medical School. She undertook her core medical training and MRCP at London Bart’s Hospital & The London Radiology training scheme.
She has had sub-specialist training in nuclear medicine, PET and CT at GSTT/St Thomas’ PET centre.
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Dr Bharwani completed her medical training at Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ schools of medicine and dentistry in London where she qualified with an upper second class honours in basic medical sciences and pharmacology and MBBS with distinction.
Following medical school, Dr Bharwani undertook general medical training in London and Brighton. She obtained membership of the Royal College of Physicians during her general radiology training at St George’s Hospital, London and then went on to become a fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists. She then undertook a body MRI fellowship at Bart’s Health NHS Trust in London with sub-speciality training in gynaecological, urological and oncological imaging.
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Medical qualification
- B Med Sci MBBS
Dr Kunwar Bhatia is a consultant general radiologist with a specialist interest in head & neck imaging. He is privileged to be an integral member of several superb multidisciplinary teams with particular strengths in management of head and neck cancer, skull base, airway and thyroid diseases.
Besides clinical service, Dr Bhatia is an active researcher and lecturer, and previously had an academic tenure as clinical associate professor (radiology) under the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2007 to2016). He is enthusiastic about all aspects of head and neck imaging. His current research interests include advanced MRI imaging in head and neck cancer including nasopharyngeal and squamous cell carcinoma, advanced imaging of salivary masses and US elastography in the head and neck.
A few recent publications include:
Routine and advanced ultrasound of major salivary glands. Bhatia KSS, Dai YL. Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2018 May;28(2):273-293.
Thyroid nodule ultrasound: technical advances and future horizons. McQueen AS, Bhatia KS. Insights Imaging. 2015 Apr;6(2):173-88.
The influence of precompression on elasticity of thyroid nodules estimated by ultrasound on shear wave elastography. Lam AC, Pang SW, Ahuja AT, Bhatia KS. Eur Radiol. 2016 Aug;26(8):2845-52.
Feasibility study of texture analysis using ultrasound shear wave elastography to predict malignancy in thyroid nodules. Bhatia KS, Lam AC, Pang SW, Wang D, Ahuja AT. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2016 Jul;42(7):1671-80.
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Dr Dominic Blunt trained in radiology in London, transferring to Leeds for subspeciality training within imaging for the centre for digestive diseases. He has also worked at St Mark’s Hospital for bowel diseases at Northwick Park, and the Royal Marsden Hospital before taking up his appointment at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
He also has a major interest in training of junior radiologists and quality assurance as part of colon CT scanning in the UK bowel cancer screening programme, for which he is on the national panel and lead for the London QA program.
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Following a biochemistry degree at Imperial College London, Dr Nick Burfitt worked in the City for Credit Lyonnaise Rouse before taking up full-time training with the British Olympic Rowing Team.
After this break from work, he went on to study medicine, qualifying from Cambridge University in 1997. Dr Burfitt completed surgical training at St George’s Hospital, then transferred to St Mary’s Hospital for radiology training with an interventional radiology fellowship at Charing Cross Hospital, where he became a consultant in 2008.
Dr Burfitt leads the prostate artery embolization (PAE) for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) service at Imperial. Following training in Lisbon with Dr Pisco, the originator of PAE, in 2015 he started the PAE programme at Imperial College Healthcare and was the site primary operator for the UK-ROPE study which has recently led to NICE approval of PAE. Dr Burfitt is expert in the use of embolization throughout the body: varicocele embolization, uterine fibroid embolization, treatment gastrointestinal or traumatic bleeding.
He is currently developing musculoskeletal embolization (MSKE) for chronic tendon and joint pain at the Trust, having travelled to Japan recently to observe this new technique.
Other areas of expertise include deep venous stenting with intravascular ultrasound, peripheral arterial angioplasty and stenting, complex aortic aneurysm endovascular repair, venous access for oncology/dialysis and endo-urological intervention.
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Dr Martin Clark undertook his medical and radiological training at the University of Melbourne and in the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.