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…

Learn more about Shirjeel Chaudhry Inspired by his father, Dr Chaudhry specialises in chronic pain and anaesthetics. He has worked in some of the busiest hospitals in Pakistan and brings his extensive expertise in the field of anaesthetics to the UK. Dr Chaudhry treats self-pay, private medical insurance, and NHS patients. A private consultation with…

Learn more about Oliver Blocker Mr Blocker specialises in knee and hip replacements but also has subspeciality interest in revision joint replacements and is passionate about NHS research and education in Trauma and orthopaedics. He joined Practice Plus Group in 2024 as the first consultant appointed at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Birmingham. Mr Blocker treats…

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 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 who completed an Ethicon-sponsored national bariatric fellowship programme in the UK and Belgium. He specialises in bariatric operations, including gastric band, bypass, and sleeve gastrectomy, as well as revision surgery. Additionally, he performs removal of benign skin lesions, total cholecystectomy, and hernia repair (unilateral and bilateral)….

Biography Having trained as a specialist registrar at the Oxford Eye Hospital, Rubina completed a two-year fellowship in Vitreo-retinal surgery. She has been working as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS foundation Trust since September 2002, providing Vitreo-retinal service to the whole of Huddersfield, Halifax and surrounding areas. She has recently retired from…

Biography Mr Zsolt Balogh graduated from the Medical University of Debrecen, Hungary in 1989. He qualified in Radiology in 1993, and Radiation Oncology in 2003. He has worked in the Radiology and Oncoradiology Departments of the Aladar Petz County Teaching Hospital in Gyor, Hungary from 1989 to 2010. He was granted an honorary observer post…

Biography Mr Yahia Al-Tamimi completed his medical training in 2002 and graduated with honours from the University of Leeds. He gained membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England following training in Preston and Cambridge. He was subsequently placed onto a post-graduate neurosurgical training program in Leeds General Infirmary and gained entry to the…

Biography Miriam Langdon’s science and clinical background began in Canada as an undergraduate in genetics and progressed to a medical degree and post-graduate research in physiology in Ireland. Dr Langdon was appointed to Practice Plus Group following thirteen years as Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist in the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Ireland where she specialised in anaesthesia and…