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Biography
Dr Ameet Dhar qualified in medicine from Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals, London. During his medical school training he also was awarded an intercalated BSc (Hons). He completed his registrar training in general internal medicine and gastroenterology (north west London), with sub-specialty accreditation in hepatology from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal Free Hospital. During this period he obtained a PhD (Imperial College London) for research into the mechanisms of liver fibrosis (scarring), and the role of coagulation proteins in liver disease.
He was appointed a consultant in 2012, and is the current clinical head of speciality for liver services at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is also a consultant hepatologist in the department of hepatology and liver transplantation at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He is lead for cirrhosis and portal hypertension, liver pre-transplant and post-transplant care at Imperial College Healthcare, and manages patients post transplantation at the Royal Free.
His clinical role also involves the management of patients with a variety of general liver diseases, including viral hepatitis, alcohol related liver disease, non-alcohol related fatty liver disease and autoimmune disorders of the liver. He also performs diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI endoscopy
Professor Andrea Frilling
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Professor Andreja Frilling undertook her education and academic training as surgeon in Germany.
Languages spoken: French, German, Solvenian
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Professor Nagy Habib is an academic surgeon and in July 2003 was awarded the position of professor of hepatobiliary surgery in the department of surgery and cancer, faculty of medicine, Imperial College London. Professor Habib is director of the hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) unit at Hammersmith Hospital.
Professor Habib was selected as one of the top 10 surgeons in the UK by the Saturday Times Magazine and he was honoured to be elected to join the French Academy of Surgeons and the European Surgical Association. He has published more than 340 articles in scientific journals.
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Professor Jiao’s basic science work is focused on MicroRNAs, circulating tumour cells (CTCs) and liver regeneration. For the first time he described CTCs residing in organs local to pancreatic or colon cancers, and identified three mRNAs to differentiate benign from premalignant pancreatic cystic tumours. Furthermore, he has described a range of innovative surgical techniques performing a large number of laparoscopic liver and pancreatic resections including laparoscopic Whipple’s procedures. In liver surgery, he introduced radiofrequency assisted liver partition with portal vein ligation for staged liver resection (RALPP). In pancreatic surgery, he described longitudinal pancreaticojejunostomy following Whipple’s for pancreatic reconstruction, and laparoscopic Long’s sleeve pancreaticogastrostomy (LPG) for central pancreatectomy.
Professor Jiao has over 200 publications, including high IF journals as the first or senior author in Lancet Oncology, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Gastroenterology and Annals of Surgery (publication link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=jiao+lr). His ambition is to improve the survival rates of pancreatic cancer.
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Professor Shahid Khan is professor of practice (hepatology) at Imperial College London. He is an internationally renowned liver specialist. He has lectured on liver disease nationally and internationally at hepatology and gastroenterology conferences, including state of the art and invited presentations. He is the lead author on the National guidelines for biliary cancer and is co-author on the International and European guidelines. He has published extensively in the medical literature, including original research articles, reviews and book chapters.
Prof Khan is an accredited Royal College of Physicians educator and enjoys a large teaching role, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has supervised several PhD/MD studies in liver disease and is also deputy admissions tutor for Imperial College Medical School, as well as director of the gastroenterology & hepatology Bsc degree programme at Imperial College London. He was also previously director of clinical studies at St Mary’s Hospital. He is a member of the Association of Physicians of GB and Ireland, the British Medical Association, the British Association for the Study of the Liver, the British Society of Gastroenterology, the European Association for the Study of the Liver, the American Association for the Study of the Liver Diseases and International Liver Cancer Association, where he has served as the chair of a special interest group and he is currently chair of cholangiocarcinoma UK.
Additional languages spoken: Urdu
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Mr Duncan Spalding has a BSc in Biochemistry from Southampton University and studied medicine at Birmingham University Medical School.
He undertook specialist HPB surgical training at the Royal Marsden, Royal Free, Royal London and Hammersmith hospitals.
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Dr Andrew Thillainaygam attended Manchester University Medical School from 1979 to 1984. He then completed his doctoral research between 1987 and 1990 at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
In 1990 he became a lecturer in medicine at the Medical School of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, before becoming a senior medical registrar in Oxford between 1992 and 1996.
Professor Mark Thursz
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Professor Mark Thursz qualified at King’s College Hospital, London. Trained at St Marys Hospital and Northwick Park. He became a senior lecturer in 1997 and professor in 2007. He is currently the clinical lead for hepatology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
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Dr Christopher Wadsworth completed specialist training in London, including posts at St Mary’s, Hammersmith and St Mark’s hospitals. He completed his PhD at Imperial College, London, investigating novel techniques for endoscopic imaging of the biliary tree and pancreas. He undertook a short travelling fellowship to the hepatobiliary unit at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota and spent a year as senior fellow in advanced pancreatobiliary endoscopy at Aintree Hospital, Liverpool.