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Biography
Dr Marius Venter is a consultant in stroke medicine, geriatric medicine and general internal medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is based at both Charing Cross and St Mary’s hospitals. He undertook his undergraduate studies and completed a master’s degree in general internal medicine at Pretoria University in South Africa. He then advanced his postgraduate training in stroke and geriatric medicine in London. He is a member of The European Stroke Organisation, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Royal College of Physicians and The Health Professions Council of South Africa. His work in the prestigious hyper acute stroke unit includes a seven-day thrombolysis service and access to advanced neuroimaging and an on-site thrombectomy service. In addition to presenting his work at international conferences, he has a strong commitment to teaching and is the lead for undergraduate training in stroke medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
He is currently undertaking several large international stroke trials to provide his patients with the latest advances in stroke medicine. His clinical and research interests are in hyper-acute and acute stroke medicine, TIAs and stroke rehabilitation, prevention & cardiovascular risk factor management.
Dr Ventner holds the following qualifications:
2013 Stroke medicine CESR (CP)
2013 Geriatric medicine CESR (CP)
2013 General internal medicine CESR (CP)
2007 MRCP (UK) equivalence status through JCHMT
2004 M.Med (internal medicine), University of Pretoria
1995 M.B., Ch.B. University of Pretoria
Languages spoken: Afrikaans, Dutch
Biography
Dr Ward qualified MBBS with distinction from Barts and the London School of Medicine in 2001. She trained in respiratory and general medicine in South Thames (including King’s, Guy’s and St Thomas’) and at the Royal Brompton Hospital and became a consultant in 2016. She gained a PhD in respiratory physiology in 2012 and has published and collaborated on many peer reviewed research papers over the last 12 years. Her research interests cover physiology of cough, breathlessness and respiratory failure in patients with respiratory and multisystem disease.
She is an honorary senior lecturer for Imperial College London School of Medicine. Dr Ward participates in the general medical take (admitting patients via A & E) as well as working on the acute respiratory unit and gives respiratory opinions for patients on the wards at the Trust. She performs diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy and pleural procedures. She has respiratory outpatient clinics at Hammersmith Hospital for interstitial lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis including connective tissue disease in the lungs) and for vasculitis affecting the lung (EGPA (Churg Strauss), GPA (Wegener’s) and others). Clinics are always held alongside rheumatology and renal physicians. She has a particular interest in multisystem disease affecting the lung and works closely with renal physicians and rheumatologists. She has set up a joint clinic at for scleroderma and connective tissue disease patients with lung involvement with Dr Maresa Carulli, consultant rheumatologist.
Primary medical qualification
- MBBS MRCP PhD
Biography
Dr Florian Wernig is a Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. Dr Wernig has a strong basis in research as well as training from top London institutions. He completed his MD in molecular endocrinology at the University of Innsbruck and carried out further research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at St George’s University of London. His postgraduate training was in endocrinology as general internal medicine in London on the Imperial/Hammersmith rotation. Florian is experienced in all aspects of endocrinology but has a particular interest in pituitary disease, neuroendocrine tumours, thyroid cancer and adrenal disorders. He remains actively involved in research and is principle investigator for several national and international multicentre clinical trials. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the Endocrine Society, the British Society of Endocrinology and the European Society for Endocrinology.
Biography
Dr Matthew Williams completed his undergraduate studies in Birmingham, before moving to London where he worked as a senior house officer at Hammersmith Hospital.
He then ran an A&E department in The Gambia for a year, in the capital’s main hospital. Upon returning to the UK he completed his clinical oncology training in London, followed by a PhD with the Advanced Computation Lab at CRUK/UCL.
He was appointed as a consultant and honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College Healtcare NHS Trust in Feb 2012.
Biography
Dr Jason Wilson is a neuroanaesthetist and professionally qualified biostatistician.
Biography
Professor Mark Wilson is dual qualified in neurosurgery and pre-hospital care working both at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and for Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust.
He is clinical lead for neurotrauma at the Trust and co-director of the Imperial Neurotrauma Centre (http://www.imperialneurotrauma.uk). His area of clinical interest is acute and traumatic brain injury (TBI), especially the first few minutes and hours after injury.
Professor Wilson is chair of the trauma committee for the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS) and lectures regularly both nationally and internationally on TBI. He holds the position of professor of practice of brain injury at Imperial College and is honorary professor (the Gibson Chair) of pre-hospital care at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. He is co-founder of http://www.goodsamapp.org.
