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Biography
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.
Biography
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.
Biography
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.
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.