Dr Daniel Crespi is an experienced Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Endoscopist at The Royal Free Hospital London. He sees children from newborn to 18 in Golders Green, London and Elstree in Hertfordshire. He can offer parents rapid access to telephone and video consultations, as well as face to face appointments in some clinical situations.

Daniel sees infants, children and teenagers with a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) problems and conditions.

These include:

abdominal pain, blood in stools, coeliac disease, constipation, diarrhoea, feeding problems, food allergy, gastro-oesophageal reflux, swallowing and vomiting problems, and concerns about weight loss and poor growth due to a GI cause.

Background

Dr Crespi qualified from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College London in 2001, and subsequently trained in London in general paediatrics. He then specialised in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition, working in several of the major paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology centres in London and Southampton.

Current Roles

Daniel has been a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist since 2011 at the Centre for Paediatric Gastroenterology at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He has helped to develop the service there with new style nurse-led and telephone clinics, clinical governance and departmental guidelines and currently sits on the Hospital Drugs and Therapeutics Committee.

He is also involved in teaching medical students at University College London (UCL) Medical School, and was recently made an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor.

His Kids Gastro Care clinics are usually in North London (Hampstead and Golders Green) and in Elstree, Hertfordshire.

Memberships and research

He is a member of the:

• British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN)
• Gastrointestinal (GI) motility working group of BSPGHAN
• British Society of Gastroenterology
• Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Dr Crespi is also actively involved in research in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Gastroscopy
• Colonoscopy
• Paediatric Endoscopy
• Breath Tests
• General paediatric gastroenterology problems
• Abdominal pain in children
• Acid reflux
• Constipation in children
• Diarrhoea 
• Coeliac disease
• Blood in stool
• Blood in vomit
• Paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
• Eosinophilic oesophagitis
• Food allergy
• Food intolerance
• Gastro-oesophageal reflux
• Reflux and colic
• Feeding issues
• Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• Bloating
• Helicobacter infections
• Peptic ulcer disease

Dr Margarita Burmester is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS, where she is Director of Paediatric Intensive Care, and she sees patients privately, including at The Portland Hospital, 77 Wimpole Street and the Bright Futures programme at the Chiswick Medical Centre. Dr Burmester is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. She is an expert in critical care in children, including cardiac intensive care, child health education, health screening and surveillance and preventative care.

Dr Burmester has worked at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, Canada, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University, USA. She completed postgraduate certification in clinical education in 2016 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority and member of the Academy of Medical Educators. She is passionate about preventing ill health, and is co-founder and director of the UK Bright Futures programme, an extensive all-encompassing health surveillance and screening programme based on the American Academy of Pediatrics model.

She has published multiple articles, delivered numerous lectures and workshops, and is a co-recipient of a Wellcome Trust award. She also contributes to national strategy through advising the national paediatric critical care clinical reference group and in her role as vice president of the Paediatric Intensive care society (PICS). Dr Burmester has been president of the paediatric section of the Royal Society of Medicine since 2018.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

General Paediatrics

Paediatric Intensive Care

Child Health Education

Health Screening and Surveillance

Dr Becky Bayele is a consultant paediatrician based in North and West London and is specialised in paediatric neurodisability, community paediatrics and epilepsy.

Dr Bayele has specialised in paediatric neurodisability, community paediatrics and epilepsy for over 12 years. Dr Bayele has held several senior positions, including: Lead for Lambeth Autism & Neuro-disability diagnostic service (LANDS), Lead for Tower Hamlets Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessment Service (ASDAS) and neurodisability lead for British Forces Germany Health Service (BFG) as a visiting consultant across severeal regions under Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from 2011-14 . She provides expert care and advice, backed by her extensive experience in paediatrics, neurodisability and epilepsy, which makes her a trusted choice for hundreds of people in the UK.

She typically sees children with delays in their development (e.g., communication and motor skills), suspected autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, paediatric epilepsy, and other complex neurodisabilities. She has specialist interests in childhood autism and developmental assessments for children born premature and/or with chromosome or brain abnormalities.

Dr Bayele practises at the following private hospitals and clinics:

• BMI The Cavell Hospital, London EN2 7PR
• BMI The Kings Oak Hospital, London EN2 8SD
• Chiswick Medical Centre, London W4 4HS
• Barnet, Enfield, Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust EN2 0JB (NHS practice)
• The Portland Hospital, London W1W 5AH

Dr Bayele is also a member of the following professional bodies:

• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
• British Academy of Childhood Disability
• International League Against Epilepsy

Dr Bayele received her medical degree from Minsk Medical Institute in 1995 and received her MRCPCH in 2012 from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She also has a PGC in epilepsy.

She is currently a practicing consultant paediatrician in neurodisability at Barnet, Enfield Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and is the Lead for Complex Neurodisability 

She served also as the lead for Chronic Childhood Epilepsy services for Barnet/Enfield under the Royal Free Hospital for over 6years.

Dr Bayele also led the neurodisabilty service on the Outpatient private wing at Great Ormond Street Hospital from 2020-21

Dr Babu Vadamalayan is a paediatric doctor and gastroenterologist, sees children from birth to 18 years of age, currently practising in the UK.

Dr Vadamalyan qualified in 1996 with a Bachelor of Medicine. Following this, he then completed his fellowship at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2001. Dr Vadamalyan then went on to get a Diploma in Paediatric Nutrition in 2006. As well as this in 2006 he went to Australia and completed a FRACP.

Since returning to the UK he has worked and gained experience in various international centres of excellence including King’s College Hospital, London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, London, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, The Children’s Hospital in Westmead, Sydney and Jichi Medical Centre, Japan. He is the lead gastroenterology consultant in King’s College Hospital and Evelina Children’s Hospital (Guy’s and St Thomas NHS trust) in London. Dr Vadamalayan has also trained at various international centres of excellence in the UK, Australia and Japan.

Dr Vadamalyan has special interests in children's GI investigations such as endoscopy (gastroscopy, balloon enteroscopy, capsule enteroscopy and colonoscopy), pH studies to diagnose reflux, hydrogen breath tests to diagnose lactose intolerance, food allergy tests and pancreatic function tests. He trains other paediatric doctors on endoscopy and run endoscopy course, and he is also the Chair for the endoscopy working group in BSPGHAN (British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition)

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Colorectal surgery
• Colonoscopy
• Capsule endoscopy
• Upper GI endoscopy gastroscopy
• Food allergy tests
• Pancreatic function tests
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Abdominal pain
• Constipation
• Food allergy
• Poor weight gain
• Gastro-oesophageal reflux
• Celiac disease
• Crohn's disease
• Ulcerative colitis
• Gastrointestinal problems
• Paediatric endoscopy

Dr Jideofor O Menakaya is an experienced Consultant Paediatrician based in London and

Middlesex. A General and Neonatal Paediatrician, he is also the Lead Clinician for

Paediatric Gastroenterology at Hillingdon Hospital. He was formerly the Clinical Lead for Neonatal Services at Hillingdon Hospital.

Jide was appointed a Consultant Paediatrician with Specialist Interest in Neonatology in 2003 after Specialist Training in General Paediatrics and Neonatal Medicine in London, Hampshire, West Midlands and Australia. In 2007, he was appointed Honorary Consultant Paediatrician in Paediatric Gastroenterology at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London.

He has a wealth of experience in the assessment and management of medical disorders affecting children including paediatric emergency care. In addition, he has specific expertise in the care of newly born babies and infants including those born prematurely. He is also well versed in the management of children with disorders of the gastro-intestinal tract.

In addition to his clinical duties as a medical consultant, his other roles include his work as a clinical researcher, a medical educator, a trainer and mentor for post graduate doctors, a UK Resuscitation Council Instructor On Newborn Life Support, a Provider of Advanced Paediatric Life Support and a Neonatal Simulation Facilitator. He is also a National Trustee of ORCHYD, a Charity for Disabled Childre

Dr Menakaya specialises in general paediatric disorders, neonatal diseases, paediatric gastroenterology, child-hood nutrition particularly faltering growth, coeliac disease, micronutrient deficiency and childhood immunisation. He has published several papers on paediatric and neonatal medicine and has lectured at many venues around the world.

His favourite hobbies are cycling, running, singing and travelling. He is married and lives in London with his wife and two children.

Please visit his website: www.moorparkpaediatrics.com for more information about his services.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Trans Anal Irrigation.
• Childhood Vaccinations.
• Abdominal Pain in Childhood
• Constipation
• Coeliac Disease
• Faltering growth in children
• Newborn Feeding problems
• Premature Newborn Baby conditions
• Infant well being clinic
• Student welfare clinic
• Childhood Immunisation programme
• Fussy eating in toddlers
• Jaundice in the newborn
• Anaemia in children
• Virtual Consultations
• Antenatal Counselling
• Adolescent Medicine

Dr Muftah Eltumi is a highly experienced children's doctor with a specialist interest in gastroenterology. Combining over twenty years of medical experience with high standards of care and support, your child's health and well-being is at the forefront of everything he does. 

He specialises in the diagnosis and management of children who suffer from infantile colic, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, food and milk intolerance, coeliac disease and inflammatory bowel disease. He is skilled in endoscopic procedures, using a camera to look inside the digestive system.

Dr Muftah Eltumi has over 20 years experience in paediatric medicine and has held many notable clinical positions and published numerous research articles in leading medical journals. 

In 1992, Dr Eltumi was appointed as a lecturer and senior registrar at Charring Cross and Westminster Medical School where, with colleagues, he established the Paediatric Gastroenterology Unit based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. In 1997, Dr Eltumi moved to Watford General Hospital where he established a state of the art, dedicated Children Gastrointestinal and Endoscopy unit. When he retired from his NHS post in 2014, a newspaper article in the Watford Observer called him a 'groundbreaking doctor.' 

Dr Eltumi treats patients in the Portland Hospital for Women and Children.

Dr Eltumi is father of four and lives with his wife Rukia in Gerrards Cross. In his spare time he likes to play golf and spend time with his family.

It is important that HCA is transparent about our relationship with those doctors who provide us with clinical guidance on delivering the best possible care to patients and operating our hospitals safely and efficiently. We set out here some of the ways in which we work together and the amount we pay this doctor for such services.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Gastro-oesophageal Reflux
• Infantile Colic
• Recurrent Abdominal Pain
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Paediatric Intervention Endoscopy
• Polypectomy
• Therapeutic Endoscopy
• Gastrostomy Insertion
• Gastro-oesophageal Reflux
• Infantile Colic
• Recurrent Abdominal Pain
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Paediatric Intervention Endoscopy
• Coeliac Disease
• Crohn's Disease
• Ulcerative Colitis
• Feeding disorders
• Food aversion
• Food allergy & intolerance

Dr. Deep is an expert in all aspects of paediatric conditions with a particular interest in acute paediatric conditions especially paediatric sepsis.

Dr. Deep is also the main author for the National Paediatric Sepsis Toolkits for Paediatrics and has co-authored the safety netting leaflet for sepsis awareness for parents in the UK. He is actively involved in sepsis awareness campaigns for the schools and GPs.

He is the medical advisor to the UK Sepsis Trust Executive Committee and represents England in the Core Panel Group to standardise pathways for the care of acutely unwell children in the Emergency Department.

Dr. Akash Deep is a Paediatric Intensivist and Director of Paediatric Intensive Care at King's College Hospital. He trained in prestigious Mumbai and Chandigarh Institutes and sub-specialized in Paediatric Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital, St Mary's Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital, London. 

Dr. Deep is actively involved in clinical research and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. He regularly presents his work and lectures in the UK and abroad.  

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• General paediatrics
• Paediatric Intensive Care 
• Sepsis - National and International expert on sepsis 

• Sepsis and infections on childhood
• Acute paediatrics
• Respiratory disorders
• Patients with complex needs
• Wheezing
• Acute liver failure

After graduating from University of Dundee in 1985, Dr Murtuza Khan trained at the Alder Hey Childrens’ Hospital, Liverpool, The Variety Club Childrens’ Hospital at Kings College, London, Guys & St. Thomas’ Hospital (where he was senior clinical research fellow), London, and The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. Following that, in 1999, he achieved dual certification (CCST) in general paediatrics and in paediatric respiratory medicine. 

Murtuza is currently a Consultant Paediatrician at the Northwest London Hospitals NHS Trust as well as a Honorary Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at Imperial College London. He is also the clinical lead for the paediatric allergy, eczema and respiratory services and the deputy clinical director at Northwick Park Hospital.

Murtuza is actively involved in research and his publications are regularly presented at international gatherings including the American Academy of Pediatrics, European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society. He has spent nearly three years in Saudi Arabia developing the paediatric services in hospitals in Jeddah and is currently a panel member on the National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD); a body set up by the Department of Health (DOH) to review all asthma deaths in children in the United Kingdom.

• Lung Function tests
• Skin Prick Tests
• Allergy testing
• ECG
• Electrocardiogram
• Food Provocation (Advice)

• Food and other allergy
• Cough
• Urticaria
• Asthma
• Eczema
• Management of recurrent infections
• General paediatrics

It is important that HCA is transparent about our relationship with those doctors who provide us with clinical guidance on delivering the best possible care to patients and operating our hospitals safely and efficiently. We set out here some of the ways in which we work together and the amount we pay this doctor for such services.

Dr. Amin trained at Leeds University where he received his degree in medicine (1991). He went on to train in paediatric medicine in London (1996) before specialising in paediatric endocrinology and diabetes in London and Oxford (2004).

Dr. Amin is passionate about medical research and was awarded an MD with commendation for research undertaken at Cambridge on the subject of the hormonal determinants of microvascular disease in type 1 diabetes (2006). After this, he was appointed as a Consultant in paediatric endocrinology and diabetes, initially at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (2005) and then at St Barts and the London Hospitals (2010). He started as a consultant and honorary senior lecturer at GOSH and ICH in 2012.

Dr Amin is a member of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED) and the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology. He is a member of the National Diabetes Audit Dataset Working Group and the BSPED Clinical Trials Study Group and numerous other study and research groups. He is the diabetes officer for BSPED. He has sat on the scoping group to update the NICE Guidance for Diabetes in Pregnancy.

Dr Amin has been invited to speak at a number of national and international meetings, and has received numerous awards during his undergraduate and postgraduate training.