108 Medical Chambers

Simon Marsh trained at Trinity College Cambridge and the Clinical School, Addenbrookes Hospital.  He was one of the few students to be awarded the William Harvey Studentship in consecutive years.  His MD thesis, from the University of Cambridge focused on the role of growth factors in breast cancer.  He is Senior Consultant Surgeon in the Colchester Breast Unit in Essex and has been a member of The London Breast Clinic since 1999.  In 2006 he halved his workload within the NHS to dedicate more time to The London Breast Clinic. He retains an active interest in cancer research and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer to the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the University of Essex.

Following qualification he developed an interest in sports medicine and has advised on many sports, including equestrian events, motorcycle speedway and rugby.  This expertise has ensured his success since joining The Gilmore Groin and Hernia Clinic where he has become adept and experienced in assessing, diagnosing and treating patients not only with hernia of all types but also with Gilmore’s Groin.

Fiona MacNeill qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London in 1983. She was appointed as a Consultant in 1996, firstly at Colchester and more recently at The Royal Marsden Hospital London. Fiona joined The London Breast Clinic in 1996. She is the Chairman of the Education and Training Committee, The Royal College of Surgeons of England and her main areas of interest are oncoplastic reconstructive surgery and sentinel lymph node training. In 2006 her educational and training achievements were recognised with the Silver Scalpel award. Fiona lectures nationally and internationally and is a member of a number of national and department of health committees.

Listed in The Times Top 50 Doctors 2012.

Included in the Breast Section of the Tatler Doctors Guide 2013 – Britains Top 250 Consultants by Speciality.

Tena Walters qualified from the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1983.

She was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy, and subsequently lecturer in Surgery on the Professorial Surgical Unit at Barts where she completed an MS thesis studying smooth muscle cell proliferation.  She has worked in Breast Test Wales and in the Royal National Hospital of Wales, the Heath Cardiff.

In 1996 she was appointed as a Consultant in Breast and Colorectal Surgery at Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup and became Lead Clinician of the Breast Unit in 1998 and Lead Clinician in Oncology in 2002.  In the same year she was nominated for the Hospital Doctor of the year award and gained proxime accessit in the oncology category.

Her special interests include family history of breast disease, the effects of HRT on breast tissue and the management of breast pain as well as the early diagnosis and management of breast cancer.

She joined the London Breast Clinic team in 1996.

Mr Giles Davies was educated at Harrow School and St Georges Hospital where he was awarded the William Brown and Devitt-Pendlebury Exhibition and graduated in 1997. He trained at the Royal Marsden Hospital and was awarded his MD thesis for investigating the role of COX-2 inhibitors in the prevention of breast cancer which was published and presented internationally. 

He trained in oncoplastic breast surgery via an international fellowship at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia and since 2008 has worked as full time Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust.and also closely with the Royal Marsden Hospital. Mr Davies specialises in Oncoplastic breast surgery.

Professor Drew qualified at St Mary’s Hospital, part of Imperial College, London, in 1990.

In addition to the basic MBBS degrees he holds two higher medical degrees with both a Master of Surgery and Doctor of Medicine with Honours. He has published several books and over 100 scientific articles with his main interests being in the molecular biology of breast cancer, reconstructive breast surgery and gynaecomastia. He is regularly invited to lecture nationally and internationally.

He is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Imperial College and several other Universities at home and aboard.

He is co-director of the Advanced Management of Breast Disease Course of the RCS England and a member of council of both the Association of Breast Surgery and the Society of Academic and Research Surgeons.

Dr Julia Scarisbrick is a Consultant Dermatologist. Julia works at the London Skin Clinic and 108 Harley Street. She has been a consultant since 2004 and trained in London at St Thomas’, University College and the Hammersmith Hospitals.

She consults on all skin conditions for both children and adults. She has published widely on dermatology and skin cancer (pubmed website).

Julia provides a friendly and efficient family dermatology service. She is able to provide advice on the management of all skin conditions and offer support to help cope with living with skin problems. She can usually give a diagnosis and treatment plan or arrange suitable tests on the day of your appointment. When a referral is needed to another speciality she can readily arrange this.

Julia is fully accredited with the GMC and is on the British Specialist Register of the General Medical Council. She is also a member of the British Association of Dermatologists.

Laurence has been Consultant Dermatologist at Northwick Park Hospital since1994 and is the skin cancer lead for the North West Hospitals NHS Trust.

He looks after patients with general dermatological conditions with a special interest in the management of malignant and pre-malignant conditions of the skin.

Dr James Mackay is the only accredited Consultant Clinical Genetic Oncologist with a special interest in cancer genetics in the UK and is an honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Biology, University College London.  His clinical interests are cancer genetics, inherited cancer, cancer screening and the introduction of complex genetic tests into clinical cancer care.

Dr Mackay established regional cancer genetics services in East Anglia and North East Thames and developed a remote cancer genetics service, using real time tele-conferencing technology, based in Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust. He holds honorary consultant contracts at several large London teaching hospitals.
 
He is the clinical principal investigator of an evaluation of regular mammography in women under 50 with a family history of breast cancer funded by the NHS Research and Development Programme. He initiated the Genetic Breast Cancer Trial, which is a trial of chemotherapy in women with breast cancer, who carry a faulty breast cancer gene. This is the first randomised trial of chemotherapy based on inherited genetic make-up in the world.

Emin Carapeti is Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon and worked as Consultant at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals. He is a Member of Council of the Section of Coloproctology of the Royal Society of Medicine, a member of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland and an examiner in surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

He graduated from Guy’s Hospital and undertook his training in London and South East England. His specialist training was at St. Mark’s Hospital in London and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. His thesis and main research was in the treatment of and anal fissure at St. Mark's Hospital and he was awarded the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 2000. He has published widely on anorectal disorders and pilonidal sinus disease and has pioneered new surgical techniques in complex recurrent pilonidal disease and day case surgery for haemorrhoids. His special interests are , ,, management of fissures, haemorrhoids and, and he is a specialist in the surgical and 

In addition to his colorectal work he also has a extensive experience in the treatment of all types of abdominal and groin hernia both simple and complicated. He also attended The Shouldice Hernia Clinic near Toronto, Canada where he learnt about the famous Shouldice hernia repair. He is also a member of The Gilmore Groin and Hernia Clinic team undertaking repair of groin disruption (Gilmore’s Groin). He is a recognised specialist in reconstruction and repair of complex incisional and recurrent ventral hernia and major abdominal wall hernias, including component separation and advanced mesh repair techniques for which he has a tertiary referral practice.

Dr Ralph Rogers attended the University of Delaware, where he was a top college lacrosse player. After graduating with a degree in Psychology, he travelled to Europe where he completed medical training at the Catholic University of Leuven. Upon graduating medical school, Dr Rogers returned to the United States to attend the University of Maryland where he received a PhD in Exercise Physiology. He was also awarded research Fellowship from the National Institute of Health. After he completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Free University of Brussels.

In his search to be the very best Dr Rogers has also gained additional diplomas and degrees, including a Masters in Business Administration (MBA). In addition he is a Fellow of the Faculties of American College of Sports Medicine, the American College of Nutrition, as well as the Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine in the UK and Ireland." and holds many prestigious posts and sits on National Advisory Boards.

It is this desire to be at the top of his game that makes Dr Ralph such a good Consultant in Sports & Musculoskeletal Medicine. He is a former elite athlete himself so he understands the needs of athletes needing the best in Human Performance techniques, nutrition and sports rehabilitation.

Dr Rogers is the European Medical Adviser to the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Mr Black graduated from Queen’s University of Belfast medical school in 1993 and underwent his registrar training in ENT surgery at Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. He attended the Memorial Sloane Kettering Hospital, in New York and the European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Paris in his final year of training to further his training in surgery. In 2006 Mr Black was appointed as Head & Neck Fellow, at Christchurch Public Hospital and Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand for 1 year until his return to the United Kingdom as Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat (Otorhinolaryngology) and Surgeon to East Kent University Hospitals Foundation Trust in 2007.

Mr Myles Black was awarded his first Fellowship by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1999 (FRCS (Otol.) and his second in Head & Neck Surgery (FRCS ORL-HNS) in 2005. Mr Myles Black is fully trained in all aspects of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgery with extensive experience both in paediatric and adult ENT disease. His subspecialist interests are salivary gland, voice, paediatric, snoring and sinus surgery.

Mr Myles Black offers Minimal Access Surgery which involves using a standard 2cm skin incision in the neck as opposed to the standard 5-10cm incision used elsewhere in the UK and Europe. In 2012 Mr Black will be commencing master class instructional courses to other Consultants in the UK and Europe in minimal access surgery.

Mr Black is a member of the British Association of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the British Association of Endocrine and Surgeons and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh).

After graduating in 1991, Mr Jacob became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1997. He underwent higher surgical training in the southeast of England and was awarded the gold medal by the Royal Society of Medicine in 2003 for an outstanding performance at the intercollegiate exit exam for Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery.

Mr Jacob spent a year in advanced research into laryngeal cancer culminating in a Masters degree awarded by the University of Bristol. He was awarded travelling fellowships by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons of England and used them to gain clinical experience from centres of excellence in North America.

Mr Jacob now works at University Hospital, Lewisham, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich as a full-time ENT Consultant. He is involved in teaching and training junior doctors and is on various teaching faculties. He is a member of the British Association of Endocrine and Surgeons, British Association of Otolaryngologists, British Association of Paediatric Otolaryngologists and the Royal Society of Medicine.

In addition to extensive experience in the medical and surgical management of General ENT conditions, he also has areas of special interest to include all aspects of paediatric ENT that is borne from experience of working at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He also has special expertise in disorders, salivary gland disease and the diagnosis and management of head and neck cancers. He is the lead surgeon for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

Mr Jason Lee was educated as a scholar at both St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

In 1999, he qualified with a double distinction from the University of Cambridge Medical School. He undertook early surgical training at the Middlesex Hospital and subsequently went on to be awarded a postgraduate MS thesis from the University of London.

His research work looked into genetic influences on the inflammatory response to surgery. Higher Surgical training was spent in the North West Thames region, culminating in a prestigious National TIG Oncoplastic Fellowship year at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

In 2013 he was appointed as a full time Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon at London North West Healthcare NHS trust, and also as an Honorary Consultant at Imperial Heathcare NHS Trust. He is a core member of the London Cancer Alliance Breast Pathway group.

He lives in West London with his young family

Mr Amir Darakhshan is a Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon specialising in the management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Pelvic Floor disorders and Hernia repair, with an expertise in Laparoscopic Surgery, reflecting his sub-specialty work at Guy’s and St Thomas' Hospitals.

Graduating from King’s College Hospital London, he received his surgical training in London and the South East of England, with specialist colorectal training in Sydney, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College Hospital and St Mark’s Hospital in London, where he developed his interests in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Pelvic Floor disorders and Laparoscopic surgery. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a member of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland and the Pelvic Floor Society.

Awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 2008, his thesis and main research at the Royal London Hospital looked at the use of the Gracilis Neosphincter in the treatment of incontinence. He has published on general surgical, colorectal and pelvic floor disorders. 

• Hernia: Laparoscopic and open groin (inguinal, femoral), ventral and incisional repairs
• Coloproctology: rectal bleed, anal fissures, haemorrhoids, pilonidal sinus disease
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Recurrent Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
• Endoscopy: Colonoscopy and OGD
• Colorectal Cancer
• Pelvic Floor Disorders: rectal evacuatory dysfunction, faecal incontinence, Sacral Nerve Stimulation, STARR procedure, posterior and ventral rectopexy and enterocoele repairs and bowel dysmotility

Mr Kieran Power is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon based at the Royal Marsden Hospital London. He recently joined 108 Medical Chambers working in The London Skin Clinic and The London Breast Clinic teams. His special interests include:

• Skin Cancer

• Breast Reconstruction using the DIEP flap

• Reconstruction for range of other cancers including gynecological cancer, colorectal cancer and sarcoma.

• Aesthetic surgery of the Breast and Body Contouring

He graduated from the National University of Ireland in 2000 and completed his specialist training in 2013. Mr Power undertook part of his training in Ireland before commencing a fellowship in microvascular surgery at the Royal Marsden in 2012. He was then awarded a Scholarship by the Royal College of Surgeons to complete his training at the Melanoma Institute Australia with a fellowship in Melanoma and Surgical Oncology. He returned to the Royal Marsden as a consultant in 2014.

He was awarded the John Calder Medal by the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons for his work on wound healing research in 2009. He has published and presented his research nationally and internationally. He has recently been awarded a Master of Aesthetic Surgery degree by Queen Mary University of London. He is entered on the GMC Specialist Registrar for Plastic Surgery.