HCA UK at The Shard

Mr Panos Liantis is a renowned Consultant Spinal Surgeon with HCA Healthcare at London Bridge Hospital and The London Clinic. Additionally, he works at Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust where he is the Spine Fellowship Director. Mr Liantis treats clients suffering from all issues of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine including neck and low back pain, sciatica, spinal deformities, spondylolisthesis,infections, disc protrusions, trauma and tumours. He is experienced in all the types of spinal surgeries using the latest techniques with a special interest in minimal invasive surgery ( TLIF, ALIF, XLIF, OLIF), navigated spinal surgery, robotic spinal surgery, deformity correction, spinal injections for pain management, kyphoplasty/vertebroplasty for osteoporosis, decompressions and discectomies. Clients can be assured they are in safe and skilled hands under Mr Liantis specialist care.

After being awarded his Medical Degree, Mr Liantis completed dual Fellowships in Orthopaedics and Neurosurgical Spine Surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery UCLH ( Queens Square). He remains involved in Medical Education and was awarded a PhD in Orthopaedics and a Bachelor Degree in Education, and is on the teaching panel at Kings College Medical School.

Mr Sedra is an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon with special interest in the spinal surgery. He completed his basic orthopaedic training in Cairo University Egypt and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore. He has been awarded the doctorate degree in research in the field of scoliosis surgery. Mr Sedra finished two prestigious fellowships at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and The Royal London Hospital. He practices spine surgery at a consultant level at the Royal London hospital. He manages complex spine trauma cases including craniocervical, cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. He has special interest spinal deformity surgery both in adult and paediatric age groups. He treats lumbar and cervical disc disease in the adult patients.

He is currently leading on a number of studies in gynae-oncology at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He has been elected as a Faculty member at The British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy BSGE where he regularly teaches for national and international courses in minimal access and advanced open Gynaecological Surgery including as live surgery. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Medical School, Imperial College London. He is as well an Honorary Senior Lecturer and the Lead for Undergraduate Teaching for Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the School of Medical Education, King's College London.

Dr Pablo Garcia Reitboeck is a Consultant Neurologist at St. George's Hospital in London. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Vienna and Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, Paris. He was awarded a PhD in Clinical Neurosciences from the University of Cambridge in 2008 for his research on the molecular pathology of Parkinson's disease.

Dr Garcia Reitboeck completed his postgraduate medical training and neurology training in various hospitals in London, including the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and St. George's Hospital. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the UCL Institute of Neurology, where he researched the role of microglia in Alzheimer's disease. Dr Garcia Reitboeck became a consultant in 2018 and specializes in acute neurology, myasthenia gravis and motor neuron disease.

Aleix Rovira is a Consultant head & neck surgeon at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital London with a sub-specialty tertiary referral practice in head & neck cancer surgery. He is a member of the Guy’s and St Thomas head and neck, thyroid and non-melanoma skin cancer multidisciplinary teams as well as part of the renowned transoral robotic surgery (TORS) program.

He has significant experience in the diagnosis and management of all types of head and neck cancer. Mr Rovira graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and completed his extensive ENT/Head and neck surgical training at the prestigious Bellvitge University Hospital. He completed further specialised fellowship training in advanced head and neck cancer surgery at Guy’s Hospital.

He is actively involved in research and published internationally with book chapters and a PhD thesis analysing the role of salvage surgery after head and neck squamous cell carcinoma treated with anti-EGFR. He is an expert reviewer for several head and neck international journals.

Dr Guy Chung-Faye is a consultant gastroenterologist at King's College Hospital and London Bridge Private Hospital. He previously served as the Clinical Lead in Upper GI Cancer for 15 years and is the current director of Bowel Cancer Screening. He treats patients with a wide range of gastrointestinal disorders, with specific expertise in gastro-intestinal cancer, gastroenteritis, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, dyspepsia, bloating and reflux. He is particularly skilled in advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures and is a nationally qualified Bowel Cancer Screening Colonoscopist with a colonoscopy completion rate of over 95 per cent and very high endoscopic comfort scores.

Dr Chung-Faye graduated from the University of Leicester Medical School and earned a PhD from the University of Birmingham for his work on Gene Therapy in Colon Cancer. He has multiple peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters to his name and is currently involved in IBD, cancer and genetics research. In his free time, Dr Chung-Faye enjoys playing tennis and learning languages.

Mr Matthew Gee is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon located in London and Kent. He is highly experienceed in pathologies related to the pelvis, hip and knee. After qualifying from King's College London in 2000, he completed his surgical training in Orthopaedic Surgery in London and the South-East of England and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 2011.

Mr Gee undertook extensive Fellowship training in lower limb arthroplasty and trauma. This included a 12-month fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre and the Repatriation Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia and 6 months at The Royal London Hospital. His expertise lies in primary and revision hip and knee replacement surgery, knee arthroscopy and ligament reconstruction, and pelvic and acetabular trauma surgery. He has a special interest in CT planned custom hip replacements and robot assisted hip and knee replacements.

In 2015, Matthew was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon at King’s College Hospital. He is also the Clinical Lead for Orthopaedic Services to Bexley CCG. Matthew grew up in Cornwall and now lives in South East London with his family.

Dr Ansari is a Consultant Gastroenterologist who specialises in Crohn's Disease, who works at the HCA The Shard.

Mr Daniel Williams is a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon for Barts Health NHS Trust. He provides both elective and trauma care at The Royal London Hospital, London's busiest major trauma centre, and Whipps Cross Hospital. Mr Williams values evidence-based clinical practise and open communication with his patients.

Mr Williams has specialist interests in trauma, hand and wrist surgery, elbow surgery, and shoulder surgery. He received his medical qualification from the University of Bristol Medical School and completed his Orthopaedic specialty training on the Percivall Pott Rotation in London. After receiving his Fellowship of The Royal College of Surgeons in 2017, he completed a two-year fellowship at the Brisbane Hand and Upper Limb Unit in Australia. He is highly trained and proficient in all areas of upper limb surgery, including trauma, arthroscopic wrist and shoulder procedures, microsurgery, and joint replacements (shoulder and hand). His areas of expertise include complex trauma, minimally invasive wrist surgery, and small joint arthroplasty.

Mr Williams actively participates in teaching and research and is regularly invited as a faculty member on national courses. He also teaches in the QMUL Trauma Sciences MSC Programme. Mr Williams' research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and specialist textbooks. He has also presented at national and international meetings.

Mr Andrew Goldberg is renowned London Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in foot and ankle disorders for adults and children. He is known for his non-interventional approach and treatment plans that keep in mind the patient's concerns and lifestyle. He works in a multidisciplinary setting, including podiatrists, physiotherapists, Pilates instructors and orthotists, which helps avoid surgery on more than 85% of patients he sees.

Mr Goldberg is fellowship trained and is a Visiting Professor in Trauma & Orthopaedics at Imperial College London and an Associate Professor at UCL. He was an Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Foot & Ankle Surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore between 2010 and 2018 and is the Chief Investigator on the TARVA Study which is run across 17 NHS Hospitals and is comparing ankle replacement against ankle fusion.

He runs other research studies to discover new and innovative treatments from stem cells for cartilage repair, to the outcomes and effectiveness of foot and ankle surgery. Andrew Goldberg pioneered the introduction of the patient-specific PROPHECY™ instrumentation technique, which enables ankle joint replacements to be personalised to the patient’s anatomy and thus perfectly tailored to the needs of each individual patient.

Mr Edward Westcott is a Consultant General Surgeon, with sub-specialties in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and colorectal cancer. His NHS base was Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and currently, he sees patients privately, including at The London Digestive Centre.

Mr Westcott was appointed a consultant in 2012 and his main areas of practice are colorectal cancer, IBD, hidradenitis supurativa of the groin and perineum, proctology including fistula and hernia surgery. He performs both laparoscopic and open surgery. He studied at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and undertook surgical training at five of London’s main teaching hospitals. He attained an MD based on his research into the pathogenesis of Crohn’s Disease at St Mark’s Hospital.

Mr Sayasneh is Consultant Gynaecologist and Gynaecological Oncology Surgeon. His main clinical and research interest is gynaecological surgery and ultrasonography. He developed a special research interest in ovarian cancer (screening, diagnostics and management), with a long track of peer review publications. He has obtained his Doctorate of Medicine MD(Res) degree in gynaecological ultrasonography from Imperial College London. He has completed his subspecialty training in Gynaecological Oncological surgery from Hammersmith Hospital in London and has been a member and an invited speaker in the Faculty panel of the International Ovarian Tumour Analysis Group IOTA and the International Society of Ultrasound in obstetrics and Gynaecology ISUOG in the last 6 years. Mr Sayasneh has obtained his RCOG advanced training in vulval disease and vaginal surgery from Cambridge University Hospitals.

He is currently leading on a number of studies in gynae-oncology at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He has been elected as a Faculty member at The British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy BSGE where he regularly teaches for national and international courses in minimal access and advanced open Gynaecological Surgery including as live surgery. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Medical School, Imperial College London. He is as well an Honorary Senior Lecturer and the Lead for Undergraduate Teaching for Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the School of Medical Education, King's College London.