London Bridge Hospital

Mr Giles Stafford is a London-based Consultant Orthopaedic Hip Surgeon with specialist expertise in sports-related hip injuries, minimally invasive and custom hip replacement (including hip athroscopy), femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) surgery, hip dysplasia (DDH), among many other kinds of hip and pelvis complaints. Having had extensive training and years of experience in hip and knee surgery, Mr Stafford's is a true expert when it comes to hip arthroscopy and sports hip injuries and even shares his insights and expertise through teaching hip arthroscopy courses.

After graduating with a medical degree in 1999 from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital (King's College London School of Medicine), Mr Stafford went on to train at Bart's and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Following this, he went onto to complete a specialist training programme in orthopaedics as part of the North West Thames Foundation School (Imperial College London). He also went on to complete fellowships at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, Norfolk and Norwich.

Mr Stafford practices privately at Sport Hip London, where he works closely with leading sports physicians and physiotherapists to help patients receive the optimal care both before and after surgery. He is a firm believer in providing an individual and tailored approach to each of his patients, according to their wishes, needs and their particular injury. Mr Stafford is also equipped with the latest technology and specialist techniques when it comes to treatment, including 3D-printed instruments and customised implants, and often uses a particular technique called ‘Enhanced Recovery’ for patients requiring a hip replacement, which helps to minimise post-operative pain and complications. Mr Stafford has also published widely in the field of orthopaedics and is often invited to speak at both national and international conferences.

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 Liantis is offering second opinion in the surgical management of spinal pathologies.

Mr Hugh Apthorp is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon. Within the field Mr Apthorp specialises in Hip Surgery and joint replacement, performing around 600 primary and revision joint replacements each year. His clinical interests lie in rapid recovery hip replacement, minimally invasive surgery, complex and revision hip surgery and hip problems in young adults. After qualifying from St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, Mr Apthorp commenced Orthopaedic training at St Thomas' Hospital. Following this, he moved to Perth, Australia where he spent a year working with Professor David Wood developing his expertise in complex hip surgery.

In addition to his practice, Mr Apthorp assists with the training of young surgeons as well as teaching established surgeons new and advanced techniques. He pioneered rapid recovery hip replacement surgery in the UK with his patients enjoying the shortest length of stay for hip replacements in England.

Dr. Douglas is a Consultant Cardiologist with specializations in adult congenital heart disease and heart disease in pregnancy. She received her primary medical degree from Queen's University Belfast and completed most of her medical training at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast before joining Guy's and St Thomas' as a Sub-Specialty Fellow. Since January 2020, she has been working as a Consultant within the Adult Congenital Heart Disease and General Cardiology Team, where she leads the Heart Disease in Pregnancy Team and contributes to the management of pulmonary hypertension.

Dr. Douglas has additional skills in transthoracic and transoesophageal echo, both day case and peri-procedural (catheter intervention and cardiac surgical). She has also conducted research on chronic total occlusive coronary disease with the use of cardiac MRI, cardiomyopathy in pregnancy, placental dysfunction and identification in cardiovascular risk factor prediction, as well as pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy and long-term cardiovascular health in women of childbearing age.

Professor O’Neill is a Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology, who sees private patients at The Cardiac Clinic at London Bridge Hospital. He completed a DPhil in Cardiac Physiology at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1995 before graduating with first-class honors from University College Dublin in 1998. He completed his subspecialty training in interventional cardiac electrophysiology at St Mary’s Hospital and in the internationally renowned arrhythmia centre in Bordeaux.

He became a Reader in 2011 and was appointed a Professor in 2013. Since then, he has led the arrhythmia service, the regional training program, and the cardiac electrophysiology divisional research program. He was awarded a National Bronze Clinical Excellence award in 2016 and 2021 in recognition of the quality and breadth of both his clinical and academic work.

Dr Anoop Shetty is a highly qualified and experienced Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, with expertise in complex electrophysiology and complex device implantation. He is part of The Cardiac Clinic team at London Bridge Hospital, where he provides specialised care to patients.

Dr Shetty has undergone rigorous training in both London and Australia, and he holds international accreditations in electrophysiology (CEPS) and implantable cardiac devices (CCDS) from the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE). He is also a Consultant Cardiologist for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.

Dr Shetty has an extensive research background and has contributed significantly to international medical literature. He is a peer reviewer for several reputable scientific journals such as Circulation, Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, JACC Clinical Electrophysiology, The American Journal of Cardiology, Heart, Europace, PACE and BMJ Case Reports. Additionally, he is an editorial board member for Europace, which is a leading academic journal in the field of cardiac electrophysiology.

Mr Zameer Shah is the Clinical Lead / Head of Department at Guys & St Thomas' Hospitals, the leading Hospitals in the UK. He specialises in treating Hip and Knee conditions. The advent of his distinguished career came through his initial training at Kings College, London. He would later undertake surgical training in Cambridge, Oxford and London. It should come as no surprise that Mr Shah has been awarded numerous prizes and honours throughout his medical career.

At the completion of his training he was selected as the International Fellow at the prestigious Insall Scott Kelly Institute and the world famous Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, USA. He returned to the UK and completed a further Fellowship at Guy’s Hospital. Mr Shah’s achievements are not limited to the field of medicine and healthcare: he has furthermore carried out an MBA to completion at Imperial College London and also received a Diploma in Sports Medicine from the Royal College of Surgeons. Whilst here, he focused primarily on measuring and improving healthcare performance and quality. Mr Shah has a particular interest in the importance of research and teaching, maintaining his passion for uncovering new advances. To this extent, he is involved in national trials and programmes aimed to further medical and surgical knowledge and is currently Senior Clinical Lecturer at Kings College London.

Dr Jonathan Behar is a Consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in managing patients with heart rhythm disturbances. He works at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust where he is also a Senior Clinical Lecturer within the Department of Imaging Sciences, Kings College London.

Dr Behar sees patients with a whole range of cardiac complaints including chest pain, palpitations, dizziness, fainting, swollen legs and breathlessness. He is highly experienced in the implantation of cardiac devices (pacemakers, defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation therapy) including the latest, miniaturised leadless pacemakers. He also carries out catheter ablations for a range of arrhythmias including supraventricular and ventricular tachycardias with a particular interest in new technologies for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

He graduated with honours from the Royal Free and University College Medical School before specialising in general medicine and cardiology in north London. He trained in cardiac rhythm management at the Barts Heart Centre and was a Locum Consultant at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals before taking up his current position.

Mr Lucky Jeyaseelan is a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon.His NHS base is the Barts Health NHS Trust.

He has specialist interests in a wide range of areas including ankle arthroscopy, flat feet deformity, bunions, arthritis, plantar fasciitis, rheumatoid foot, sports injuries, and soft tissue conditions of the foot and ankle. He also treats all acute injuries (including fractures) of the foot and ankle.

Mr Jeyaseelan gained his MBBS from the University of London in 2007 before undertaking training on the Percivall Pott Rotation. He has been awarded a number of fellowships including The Singhal Travelling Fellowship from the British Orthopaedic Association and an AO specialist trauma fellowship. Additionally, he has worked at notable hospitals including Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He has a keen interest in research and has a number of peer-reviewed publications to his name. He also delivers international lectures and has contributed to speciality textbooks in his field of expertise. Outside of the hospital, Mr Jeyaseelan enjoys spending time with his young family and keeping up with the latest sporting events.

Konstantinos Savvatis is a Consultant Cardiologist in the Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases Unit at Barts Heart Centre in London and Honorary Associate Professor in University College London and Queen Mary University London. He trained at the Department of Cardiology at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, one of the largest centres in Europe focusing on dilated and inflammatory cardiomyopathy. He acquired his PhD on the immunomodulatory role of matrix metalloproteinases in acute myocarditis and continued working as Clinician Scientist at the Charité and the Centre for Regenerative Therapies focusing on the role of fibrosis and fibroblasts in heart failure and cardiomyopathy.

His main clinical and academic interests are genetic and inflammatory cardiomyopathies and, especially, the risk assessment and therapy of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, myocarditis and cardiac involvement in Neuromuscular Conditions (limb girdle, Duchenne and Becker’s muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, Friedreich’s ataxia). He is specialised in advanced cardiovascular MRI and echocardiography. His work has been published in several high impact journals, such as Nature Communications, Circulation, Circulation Research, JACC and European Heart Journal.

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.

In 2004 Mr Marco Sinisi was appointed Consultant at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore working on the Peripheral Nerve Injury (PNI) Unit. He is a Neurosurgeon by training, having graduated from the University of Milan in 1997 and then completed his training in Neurosurgery in the Institute of Neurosurgery of Milan.

In 2002, Mr Sinisi was appointed to a permanent consultancy at the Carlo Besta Neurological Institute of Milan, a centre of excellence among neurosurgical centres in Italy, where he was the lead surgeon for the development of the treatment of surgical disorders of peripheral nerves. Mr Sinisi holds the post of Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. His scientific work encompasses over forty nationally and internationally published scientific papers/presentations.

Mr Zameer Shah is the Clinical Lead / Head of Department at Guys & St Thomas' Hospitals, the leading Hospitals in the UK. He specialises in treating Hip and Knee conditions. The advent of his distinguished career came through his initial training at Kings College, London. He would later undertake surgical training in Cambridge, Oxford and London. It should come as no surprise that Mr Shah has been awarded numerous prizes and honours throughout his medical career.

At the completion of his training he was selected as the International Fellow at the prestigious Insall Scott Kelly Institute and the world famous Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, USA. He returned to the UK and completed a further Fellowship at Guy’s Hospital. Mr Shah’s achievements are not limited to the field of medicine and healthcare: he has furthermore carried out an MBA to completion at Imperial College London and also received a Diploma in Sports Medicine from the Royal College of Surgeons. Whilst here, he focused primarily on measuring and improving healthcare performance and quality. Mr Shah has a particular interest in the importance of research and teaching, maintaining his passion for uncovering new advances. To this extent, he is involved in national trials and programmes aimed to further medical and surgical knowledge and is currently Senior Clinical Lecturer at Kings College London.