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Biography
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.
Biography
Tom Bourne is adjunct professor at Imperial College London, consultant gynaecologist at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital and a visiting professor at KU Leuven Belgium. He is an internationally renowned authority on the use of ultrasound in gynaecology and in the management of problems in early pregnancy.
Professor Bourne has edited six books, published over 300 papers and spoken at numerous international meetings. He is board member of the International Society for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology and steers several international trials.
He sat on the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound panel developing guidelines for diagnosing miscarriage in the USA (2012), and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) guidelines panel for diagnosing ovarian cancer (2014). In 2014 he was awarded an honorary fellowship of the AIUM.
His expertise lies in using ultrasound to make a clear diagnosis, whilst being able to reassure people they have nothing seriously wrong if nothing is seen on a scan. If a problem is found he works closely with other specialist gynaecologists such as Christina Fotopoulou so that should surgery be required, it is carried out by the appropriate sub-specialist and so ensure the best outcome.
Biography
Dr Vassiliki Bravis graduated from Cambridge University with an MA (Honours) degree in medical sciences in 2000. She then completed her clinical training at Imperial College London, where she obtained her MBBS degree in 2003. Her postgraduate training was based in teaching hospitals and district general hospitals in north west London. In 2008 she was awarded a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) academic clinical fellowship in diabetes and endocrinology, based at Imperial College.
In 2011 Dr Bravis completed a fellowship in postgraduate medical education with the London deanery and in 2012 she obtained her MRes in translational medicine from Imperial College. She obtained her certificate of completion of training (CCT) in diabetes, endocrinology and internal medicine from the north west Thames clinical rotation, which included training at Hammersmith, Charing Cross and St Mary’s Hospitals, in February 2014. Her clinical research was based at Imperial College between the department of investigative sciences at Hammersmith Hospital and the department of metabolic medicine at St Mary’s Hospital.
Dr Bravis has been a consultant at St Mary’s Hospital since April 2015, where she practises clinical medicine and carries out translational research. She is currently the Trust lead for diabetic foot disease.
Biography
Dr Bray is a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia. She has held a consultant NHS post at St Mary’s Hospital since 2004 and is a founder member of Lindo Anaesthesia, focusing on the delivery of specialist obstetric anaesthetic care from booking to 6 weeks following delivery.
Other special interests include obstetric simulation team training, anaesthesia for robotic surgery and major trauma.
Biography
Professor Stephen Brett completed his undergraduate education at the University of Birmingham, and has served with the regular army. He undertook his specialist training in London and is a Doverdale fellow in critical care at the Royal Brompton Hospital. He completed his MD thesis in pulmonary vascular control.
Biography
Professor Adolfo Bronstein is a clinical neurologist specialising in problems of balance and eye movements.
Languages spoken: Spanish
Biography
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.