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Mr Roberto Casula carried out his studies at Padua University Medical School in Italy. Following that he accomplished his postgraduate surgical training predominantly in the UK, until he was appointed as a consultant in 1998.
Additional languages spoken: Italian
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Dr Aristeidis Chaidos is a consultant haematologist and honorary senior lecturer at Hammersmith Hospital, with clinical and research interest in multiple myeloma, lymphomas and haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. He completed his training in haematology and PhD research on multiple myeloma at the University of Ioannina, Greece in 2005. He was then trained in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation at Hammersmith Hospital (2005 – 2007) and later joined Professor Karadimitris’ laboratory for post-doctoral research on multiple myeloma.
Dr Chaidos has a strong research interest in multiple myeloma propagating cells, epigenetic mechanisms in drug resistance and novel therapies. He is a principal investigator and co-investigator in several clinical studies on multiple myeloma and lymphomas.
Languages spoken: Greek
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Neil Chapman is a consultant in general & cardiovascular medicine and clinical pharmacology at Imperial College Healthcare Trust and honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College, London.
He qualified from Cambridge University before training in general medicine, clinical pharmacology and hypertension in London and Sydney, Australia.
He is a specialist in management of hypertension (high blood pressure). He is a Fellow of the British and Irish Hypertension Society and an Accredited Hypertension Specialist of the European Society of Hypertension. He is lead clinician for the Peart-Rose Clinic (based at the Hammersmith Hospital), a tertiary referral centre for hypertension and cardiovascular risk factor management and disease prevention.
He sees out-patients with all aspects of hypertension (including confirmation and investigation of newly-diagnosed hypertension, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, secondary hypertension, resistant and hard to control hypertension and patients who find it hard to tolerate usual treatments).
He participates in the acute medicine on-call rota at St Mary’s Hospital and looks after in-patients with acute and general internal medical problems. He also runs a general medical out-patient clinic seeing patients with a wide variety of medical problems.
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Mr Chukwuemeka qualified from the University of London (St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School) in 1992 and trained in London (Royal Brompton, Hammersmith, Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College hospitals).
He completed a fellowship at the University of Toronto prior to appointment as a consultant in 2006.
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After qualifying in medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School in London, Dr Robina Coker completed postgraduate training with posts at the Royal Brompton, London Chest, Bart’s, Charing Cross and Whipps Cross hospitals. Her PhD (undertaken at the National Heart & Lung Institute and University College, London) focused on the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of lung fibrosis.
Since her appointment at Hammersmith Hospital in 1999 she has developed sub-specialty interests in interstitial lung disease, and in air travel and lung disease. In addition to her work as consultant and honorary senior lecturer in respiratory medicine she is currently clinical director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network, north west London, which supports clinical trials across north west London.
Additional languages spoken: French
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Dr Graham Cole is a consultant cardiologist primarily based at Hammersmith Hospital. He has broad expertise in assessing patients with shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations, dizziness, collapses and ankle swelling. He also has expertise in assessing cardiovascular risk and assessing patients needing surgery to minimise their risk.
He is a sub-specialist in cardiac imaging, being extensively trained and accredited in using modern techniques (echo, cardiac MRI, cardiac CT) to investigate patients painlessly and non-invasively. He has additional expertise in heart failure.
Dr Cole qualified from Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge in 2005, achieving a first class honours degree in natural sciences. He went on to achieve distinctions in every area of his final medical examinations at Cambridge. He subsequently completed the Hammersmith medical rotation as a junior doctor followed by a further decade of specialist cardiology training in the prestigious north west Thames rotation. This included a four-year fellowship in cardiac MRI at the world-leading Heart Hospital Imaging Centre under Prof James Moon, the London CT fellowship and a PhD in echocardiography.
Highlights of Dr Cole’s research include developing ways to help patients make individualised decisions about the pros and cons of different treatments, and developing imaging techniques to be able to make precise diagnoses and know when a patient’s condition has changed.
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Dr Alexander Comninos joined Imperial College School of Medicine on Academic and Music Scholarships in 1997. He completed an intercalated BSc in Endocrinology in 2001, for which he was awarded first class honours. On completion of his medical degree, he trained in Endocrinology & Diabetes and General Internal Medicine in several renowned London hospitals and was awarded an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship to continue his research alongside his training.
He was subsequently awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust PhD Research Fellowship in 2011, NIHR Clinical Lectureship in 2015, Wellcome Trust Institutional Lectureship in 2016 and a Biomedical Research Grant.
Dr Comninos has authored over thirty-five research publications in Endocrinology and has presented his work in talks internationally, including at the British Endocrine Society, International Congress of Endocrinology, American Endocrine Society and European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology Annual Conferences. He has won several international awards including three Outstanding Abstract Awards and the Best Oral Presentation in Reproductive Science from the American Endocrine Society, as well as the Clinical Endocrinology Trust Prize from the UK Society for Endocrinology.
Dr Comninos is heavily involved in clinical work as a Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (based at St. Mary’s, Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals). Alongside general endocrinology, his special interests include reproductive hormones and calcium disorders including osteoporosis and hyperparathyroidism. In addition, he continues in research and education as an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.
His clinical and academic contributions were recently recognised by the UK Society for Endocrinology with the award of the prestigious Early Career Clinical Prize, presented to the leading Early Career Clinical Endocrinologist in the UK. He continues to publish research in world-leading journals including The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, The Journal of Clinical Investigation and The Lancet alongside his clinical Consultant Endocrine practice.
Additional languages spoken: Greek
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Dr Susan Copley trained at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School (UMDS).
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Dr Jonathan Cousins has trained in weight loss surgery by visiting and attending courses at nine different bariatric centres across Europe and the UK. Combining this training with his broad experience, he has created a tailored anaesthetic procedure to allow patients to return to full mobility as quickly as possible. All patients are monitored during surgery with Entropy, a brain-wave monitor, to ensure the perfect depth of anaesthesia.
Dr Cousins personally runs a dedicated pre-assessment service prior to surgery to ensure safety and minimise the risk of complications and potential cancellation of the surgery.
In 2006 Dr Cousins became interested in bariatric surgery and bariatric anaesthesia. While learning this specialty he noted that there were no training opportunities for anaesthetists, no syllabus, and no sources of reference in the UK. He founded the Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia for the UK (SOBA UK). He is the current chairman. The society has become the largest society in the field globally and has worked closely with the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), the Royal College of Anaethetists (RCOA), the British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMMS), the National Institute for Clinical and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Independent Healthcare Advisory Service (IHAS) to formulate guidelines, syllabus and CPD ratification and national and local advice regarding obesity anaesthesia.
Dr Cousins is passionate about making obesity anaesthesia simple and a transferable skill for all users, demystifying complex algorithms for routine use. He has a long history of enhancing collaboration between surgery and anaesthesia to drive efficiency and success.
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Mr Jeremy Crane is a consultant transplant and vascular surgeon based in London. His NHS practice is at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where he is an honorary senior lecturer and the lead for education and training in transplant and vascular access surgery.
His practice encompasses kidney and pancreas transplantation, dialysis access surgery, vascular surgery (including varicose vein surgery) and he has a specialist interest in treating chronic wounds.
After qualifying from the University of Liverpool in 1997, Jeremy completed his house jobs at the Royal Liverpool University, St George’s, Chelsea and Westminster, St Mary’s and Great Ormond Street hospitals.
He underwent higher surgical training in north west London, completing vascular surgery training at St Mary’s Hospital and specialist transplantation surgery training at Hammersmith, St George’s and Guy’s hospitals.
Between basic and higher surgical training, Mr Crane undertook a postgraduate degree at Imperial College and St Mary’s Hospital. He was awarded a doctorate of medicine from the University of London for his MD thesis in the subject of haemodynamics and blood flow patterns in vascular surgery.
Mr Crane’s specialist interests include kidney and pancreatic transplantation surgery (with both deceased and live donors), vascular access surgery and mainstream vascular surgery. In addition he has wide experience in other general surgical conditions and in the management of complex wounds.
Mr Crane was appointed as a consultant vascular and transplant surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2011. He is based primarily at Hammersmith Hospital where he provides a kidney and pancreas transplantation service and has set up a programme of vascular access surgery for haemodialysis patients – the first of its kind in north west London.