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Biography
Dr Priya Bhagwat has many years of experience in pathology. She worked in India and the Sultanate of Oman before training and working in histopathology in the UK.
Additional languages spoken: Hindi, Kannada, Marathi
Biography
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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Dr Arun Bhaskar graduated from the University of Kerala medical school, India. He subsequently completed his specialist training at the north west deanery, UK in 2006 and started his consultant career at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester. In addition to Royal College fellowships in anaesthesia, pain medicine and intensive care, he also has a fellowship in interventional pain practice. Dr Bhaskar has special interests in complex pain, including neuropathic pain, cancer pain, visceral and pelvic pain, pain interventions and neuromodulation.
Dr Bhaskar also has a specific interest in opioid management in complicated cancer pain, as well as opioid dependence and its management in the pain patient population. He has been involved with several clinical trials in cancer pain and neuropathic pain in cancer including chemotherapy-induced neuropathy. He has been involved in developing novel techniques for interventional treatment of pain including intractable cancer pain.
Dr Bhaskar is on the faculty of many courses, including the European Pain School. He is an examiner for the European Diploma in pain medicine and also the FIPP examination for the World Institute of Pain. He writes a regular column in the European Pain News and serves as section editor for the Journal of Observational Pain Medicine. He is an elected member of the Council of the British Pain Society and is also the executive liaison for the Society’s interventional pain special interest group (SIG), neuropathic pain SIG and cancer pain committee. He also chairs the communications committee.
Dr Bhaskar is the honorary secretary of the Neuromodulation Society of UK and Ireland. He is also the co-chair of the neuromodulation for pain guidelines committee of the British Pain Society and NSUKI. He is the present chairman of the UK section of the World Institute of Pain. Dr Bhaskar advises NICE on interventional procedures, cancer pain and was a co-opted member of the GDG for care of the dying.
Dr Bhaskar has been a contributing author towards the British Pain Society’s ‘cancer pain management’ document in 2010 and is currently the co-chair of the committee for the cancer pain management guidelines of the British Pain Society. He is also a member of the European Pain Federation Task Force on cancer pain management. Dr Bhaskar is the co-chair for the OPEN Consensus group for opioid analgesic dependency. He is also the immediate past-chair of the Northwest Pain Clinicians, UK, and was a member of the steering group of the Northern England Pain Society. Dr Bhaskar was also part of the scientific committee for European Pain Federation, EFIC 2017 and is also the co-chair of the International Meeting of the Spinal Interventional Society, London 2018 and President-elect of the British Pain Society.
Additional languages spoken: Hindi, Malayam, Tamil, Urdu
Biography
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.
Biography
Mr Rajarshi Bhattacharya completed his basic surgical training in the north of England and simultaneously obtained a master’s degree in evidence based orthopaedic studies. He then undertook higher training as a specialist registrar (Calman training scheme) in trauma and orthopaedics within the northern deanery, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Subsequently, Mr Bhattacharya undertook specialist fellowship training in knee surgery at the Edinburgh Knee Unit followed by a trauma fellowship at the Edinburgh Trauma Unit, with a further fellowship in knee surgery at the Southampton Knee Unit.
In 2010 he was appointed as a consultant in trauma and orthopaedics at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and was subsequently appointed as honorary clinical senior lecturer at Imperial College, London.
In 2012 he was elected as the ASG (Austria, Switzerland, Germany) orthopaedic fellow by the British Orthopaedic Association. In 2013 he was appointed as head of trauma and orthopaedics at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Languages spoke: Bengali, Hindi
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Colin Bicknell is a senior lecturer and consultant vascular surgeon at Imperial College London and is head of specialty for vascular surgery.
Clinically he is a vascular surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital and works privately at The Lindo Wing. His work encompasses a wide range of venous and arterial treatments.
He is the chair of the British Society of Endovascular Therapy annual meeting committee and the director of the Imperial Health Policy MSc.
His academic research interests include examination of methods to reduce error in vascular surgery procedures leading to the initiation of a unique team training programme at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He has notably has studied the application of novel technologies, such as the advantages of robotic endovascular catheters in the vascular tree, which has led to the world’s first trials of vascular robotics in man.
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Mukhtar Bizrah is a consultant cornea and cataract surgeon at the Western Eye Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is one of the few ophthalmic surgeons in the world who is board certified in the UK, Canada and Europe:
1. Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth, UK)
2. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC, Canada)
3. Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO, Europe)
Mukhtar is an expert in advanced corneal diseases and cataracts. His clinical interests include cataract and refractive surgeries, cornea transplants (partial and full thickness), pterygium surgery and advanced cornea diseases. He is interested in complex cornea and cataract disorders, and provides second opinions on such cases.
Mukhtar has presented his research at numerous international conferences and peer-reviewed research articles. By 2020, he had won 25 awards and prizes on International, national and regional levels.
Mr Bizrah completed his core ophthalmology training at the London deanery, which included 2 years at the Western Eye Hospital and 2 years at Moorfields eye hospital.
He has completed advanced cornea and cataract surgery fellowships at two of the world’s most renowned eye institutions: Western Eye Hospital (London, UK) and University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).
He attended University College London and St George’s University of London. He won numerous awards by the time he completed undergraduate training, including London Student of the Year award, Royal Society of Medicine Brigadier Haywood prize and Wellcome Trust Research Prize.
Mukhtar Bizrah is the founder & co-director of London Eye Course, the largest ophthalmology revision course in Europe & North America.
Biography
Dr Susanah Bloch is a respiratory physician with an NHS practice at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.
She is the lead for lung cancer for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, runs the lung cancer multidisciplinary team and works closely with the wider thoracic and oncology teams. She is responsible for managing the lung cancer pathway for patients from pre diagnosis, supporting them through their diagnosis and then on to referral for treatment.
Dr Bloch also runs the acute non-invasive ventilation service and acute respiratory unit. She is on call for acute general medicine and looks after general medical and respiratory inpatients. She leads the tracheostomy ward rounds and supports inpatients who are being weaned off a tracheostomy in intensive care. Her experience includes management of obesity hypoventilation and obstructive sleep apnoea with non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and continuous positive airways pressure (CPAP).
Dr Bloch runs a general respiratory clinic diagnosing and treats all general respiratory diseases. She also sees patients that require bronchoscopies each week.
She trained at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College School of Medicine in London and since qualifying has also gained both an MSc in respiratory medicine and a research PhD in the field of post critical illness muscle wasting.
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Philip Bloom has clinical interests in Glaucoma & Cataract. He qualified in 1984 (Bristol University) and trained in Bristol, The Western Eye Hospital & Moorfields Eye Hospital. He is President of the UK & Ireland Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS), Chairman of the International Glaucoma Association (IGA), Trustee and Board Member of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), council member & past President of the RSM Ophthalmology Section and a Keeler Scholarship Board Trustee (Royal College of Ophthalmologists). His special clinical and research interests include minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (including glaucoma laser treatments), neuro-protection, surgical simulation/training and spectacle independence after cataract surgery.