Biography He graduated from the Kaunas University of Medicine and worked as a gastroenterologist and endoscopist at the largest health care institution in Lithuania – Kaunas University Hospital. Throughout the 38 years of his professional journey, he has demonstrated exceptional proficiency in performing a wide range of endoscopic procedures, including gastroscopy, colonoscopy, and flexible sigmoidoscopy….

Biography Mr Venkatesh completed medical school at a prestigious institution, Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore, India and have completed higher specialist training in Trauma and Orthopaedics awarded Diplomate National Board (DNB) T&O, National Board of Examinations(NBE), India. He pursued higher specialist training further in Orthopaedics in the United Kingdom and was awarded FRCS Edinburgh T&O and CCT…

Biography Oliver Blocker is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Birmingham. He was previously a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Emersons Green in Bristol, but relocated in September 2024, to our hospital in Birmingham. Mr Oliver Blocker specialises in primary and revision knee and hip replacements.  In addition to…

Biography Petros Mikalef is a Consultant Orthopaedic Hand and Spasticity surgeon who works at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham. He has completed Fellowship training in Hand Surgery and in Spasticity Surgery, in 2013. His classification system for surgical neurectomy has been adopted internationally. He has significant experience in the operative treatment of elective hand…

Biography Mr Parker is a Consultant Orthopaedic Hip and Knee Surgeon. He completed his training in Scotland and South West England, before undertaking sub-specialty fellowships in hip and knee surgery at the University Hospital Llandough (Cardiff). His interests include enhanced recovery and orthopaedic infection. He worked as a NHS Consultant (2016 – 2023) in the…

Biography Mr Rosario Mela graduated from medical school in 1992 at the University of Florence, Italy and completed his speciality training in Odonto-Stomatology three years later. He has over 25 years’ experience working in oral surgery. Mr Mela retired with the rank of colonel from Italian Air Force Medical Service in 2019 and joined the…

Biography Mr Bishay retired from the Royal united Hospital after serving as a consultant Orthopaedic surgeon for 25 years in January 2020. Mr Bishay started working as a part time consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Practice Plus Group Hospital, Shepton Mallet in 2014 mainly to do revision hip surgery for a cohort of Metal on metal…

Biography Dr Lydia Knoell graduated from the Medical Faculty of J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1986. She started her medical career in general medicine and paediatrics and then began her training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Medicine and Emergency Medicine in 1990. Dr Knoell qualified as a specialist in Anaesthesia in 1996…

Biography Peter Vasas is a Bariatric (weight loss) surgeon having completed an Ethicon-sponsored national bariatric fellowship programme in the UK and Belgium. He specialises in Bariatric operations including band, bypass and sleeve gastrectomy as well as revision surgery. I came here for a Sleeve Gastrectomy with the great Dr. Peter Vasas. My surgery went smoothly…

Biography Mr Charles Kanavati MB ChB, FRCSEd, FRCOphth Medical Director and Clinical Director, Ophthalmology, Rochdale Following Medical School Graduation in 1983 and two years in General surgery, he completed higher surgical ophthalmology training at St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem and UK in 1990 and undertook a subspecialty training fellowship in Vitreous and Retina surgery…