Mr Christian Brown is a Consultant Urological Surgeon and a member of the prostate robotic and laparoscopic teams at King's College Hospital and Guy's Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts in London. He trained at a number of leading healthcare institutions across England, including King's College Hospital, University College Hospital, The Royal Marsden and The Royal College of Surgeons, as well as other hospitals across the South East of England.

Mr Brown offers care in both general and specialist urology. His general urology practice involves the assessment and management of general urological conditions including those of the kidney, bladder, prostate and male genitalia. His specialist urology practice involves laparoscopic and robotic surgery, with particularly extensive experience in robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), having over 1250 cases under his belt.

Mr Brown shares his vast surgical experience as a lecturer on various postgraduate courses at University of London and in Europe. He has educated trainees and consultants in practical surgical skills in the UK and abroad. He is also an active clinical researcher in benign and malignant prostate disease, and has published over 45 peer reviewed articles in the field of urology.

Rajesh Nair, FRCS (Urol.), FEBU, MSc. (Urol) is a Consultant Urological Surgeon appointed in 2017 at Guy’s and St. Thomas’. Nair has a sub-specialist interest in open, laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgery with a particular focus with bladder, kidney, prostate and testis cancer issues as well as reconstructive urological surgery.

Nair has done fellowship training in robotics, uro-oncology and reconstructive urology at St. George’s Hospital, Guy’s Hospital, London and the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia.

He specialises in Blood in the Urine, Urinary Tract Symptoms, Bladder Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Testis Cancer, Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer, Urinary Tract Reconstruction, Minimally Invasive Surgery (Robotic and Laparoscopic), Open Surgery, Blue-light Cystoscopy and Intravesical Bladder Treatment Strategies in Bladder Cancer, Continent and Incontinent Urinary Diversion, Bladder and Kidney Preservation for Cancer, Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment, PUJ Obstruction, Robotic Pyeloplasty, Prostatitis, Testicular Pain. 

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Minimally Invasive Surgery (Robotic and Laparoscopic) & Open Surgery in Bladder Cancer
• Kidney Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Testis Cancer
• Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer and Complex Urinary Tract Reconstruction
• Haematuria (Blood in Urine)
• Bladder and Kidney Preservation for Bladder and Kidney Cancer
• Surgery for Benign (Non-Cancerous) Prostate Hyperplasia (Enlargement) 
• Blue-light Cystoscopy and Intravesical Bladder Treatment Strategies for Bladder Cancer
• Continent and Incontinent Urinary Diversion (Neobladder, Mitrofanoff, Ileal Conduit)
• Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment
• PUJ Obstruction and Robotic Pyeloplasty
• Penile Surgery
• Scrotal Surgery
• Acute or Chronic Prostatitis (Prostate Inflammation)
• Kidney cancer
• Bladder cancer
• Non-cancerous and cancerous prostate disease
• Testis cancer
• Upper tract urothelial cancer
• Urinary tract reconstruction
• Minimally invasive surgery (robotic and laparoscopic) and open surgery

Mr Tsepov is an internationally recognised expert gynaecological surgeon performing robotic surgery on DaVinci Xi surgical robot for severe endometriosis, uterine fibroids and complex benign gynaecological pathology. At The Princess Grace Robotic Endometriosis Centre, which Mr Tsepov has established, he works in close partnership with multidisciplinary robotic surgery experts. The Centre has been accredited as an endometriosis referral centre by The British Society Of Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE) in 2022 based on the results of a surgical and patient outcomes audit.

Mr Tsepov is a certified robotic DaVinci Xi console surgeon by Intuitive Surgical as well as by the British and Irish Association of Robotic Gynaecology Surgeons (BIARGS). He is a robotic surgery proctor for Intuitive Surgical and teaches advanced robotic surgery techniques across UK and Europe. The Princess Grace Robotic Endometriosis Centre led by Mr Tsepov is an observation centre for robotic surgery and provides regular training courses for surgeons.

He widely participates in major European and Global meetings dedicated to complex gynaecological surgery and endometriosis as a faculty member and invited speaker. He has received Surgical Video Competition Award by the British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy in Edinburgh UK in 2018 and Silver Video Surgery Award by the British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy in Newport, the UK in 2019. He has also performed live surgery broadcasts to several international congresses dedicated to deep infiltrating endometriosis.

In his clinical practice, Mr Tsepov widely uses traditional methods of diagnostics and treatment, as well as the latest innovative approaches and techniques recommended by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE), European Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).

Mr Denis Tsepov graduated from St. Petersburg State Medical University in Russia in 1997 and completed his higher specialist training in the United Kingdom, having received a CCT in 2010 (London Deanery) after completing his final years of the specialist training program at The University College London Hospital (UCLH)

Mr Tsepov is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of the United Kingdom (RCOG) since 2008. In addition to his UK training, he has learned and excelled in advanced surgical techniques for excisional treatment of severe endometriosis and complex gynaecological surgery in leading European Endometriosis Centres in Bordeaux and Rouen, (France), Bologna and Negrar (Italy) and Moscow (Russian Federation)

Outside his clinic, Mr Tsepov is a passionate hiker and enjoys long walks in the British and French Countryside and also fishing in northern Finland with his family and friends.

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.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Myocarditis

Cardiac sarcoidosis

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

Dilated cardiomyopathy

Professor Mark O’Neill is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at St. Thomas’ Hospital London and Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology at King’s College London. He qualified with first class honours from University College Dublin Medical School in 1998, having completed his DPhil in Cardiac Physiology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 1995. He undertook subspecialty training in interventional cardiac electrophysiology at St Mary’s Hospital and in 2005 undertook a British Heart Foundation fellowship in the world-renowned arrhythmia centre in Bordeaux where he gained particular expertise in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. 

He joined St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College London as a consultant in the Department of Cardiology and Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering in 2009. He was promoted to Reader in 2011 and Professor in 2013 and has since led the arrhythmia service, regional training programme and divisional research programme in cardiac electrophysiology. In 2016, in recognition of the quality and breadth of his clinical and academic work, he received a National Bronze Clinical Excellence award.

Professor O'Neill is an international opinion leader in cardiac electrophysiology, is actively involved in research and has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His research addresses the mechanisms of atrial fibrillation and the use of novel mapping, imaging and computational modelling techniques to better understand the reasons why a patient develops AF and therefore how best to manage it. 

He lectures regularly in the UK and abroad on atrial arrhythmia management. He treats patients with simple and complex heart rhythm disturbances of atrial and ventricular origin, in particular atrial fibrillation and tachycardia in the context of inherited and acquired structural heart disease.

His private practice is based at The Heart Rhythm Clinic, 88 Harley Street. He performs interventional electrophysiology procedures at the Harley St Clinic.

In June 2018, the Daily Mail published the profiles of the top ten UK electrophysiologists recommended by cardiologists themselves. About Professor O'Neill, his peers were quoted as saying: "On the leading edge, he has built an international reputation based on his prolific research work. He is also known to provide a measured opinion on what is best for patients. He is an extremely astute doctor, particularly in diagnostics. He will look at patients very objectively and pick up very subtle clinical signs that others will overlook."

At the Heart Rhythm Clinic, Professor O'Neill will give you the time to help you understand your symptoms and reach a diagnosis. He will provide treatment advice and expertise in partnership with you and tailored to your concerns.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Catheter ablation
• AF ablation
• Pulmonary vein isolation
• Electrophysiology Study
• DC Cardioversion
• Implantable Loop Recorder
• Ambulatory heart rhythm monitoring (1-14 days)
• Atrial fibrillation
• Atrial tachycardia
• Atrial flutter
• Arrhythmia in adult congenital heart disease
• Supraventricular Tachycardia
• Ventricular Tachycardia

Ben is a consultant urological surgeon with a special interest in the minimally invasive treatments of prostatic diseases. He is the Guy’s & St Thomas’ MDM urological cancer and clinical robotics lead, a UK robotic surgery mentor and robotic fellowship director. He trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, The Royal Marsden Hospital and with Professor Tony Costello at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he was awarded the prestigious Rowan Nicks Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He is currently the British Association of Urology (BAUS) Oncology Section Chairman and in 2019 will be awarded the BAUS Golden Cystoscope for contributions to British urology within 10 years of consultant appointment.

He has learnt both laparoscopic and robotic surgical approaches and performed the first randomised trial of telerobotics between Guy’s and Johns Hopkins Hospitals, in 2002. This formed part of his Master of Surgery thesis on robotic surgery and telemedicine. Ben is associate editor of the BJUI, with over 230 peer-reviewed publications, 3 books, and 25 book chapters on minimally invasive and robotic urological techniques.

He has performed over 1000 robotic radical prostatectomies and over 1100 robotic upper tract procedures including 560 robotic partial nephrectomies and also performs holmium laser prostatectomy (HoLEP) with an experience of over 900 cases. He has also helped to develop both the robotic cystectomy and robotic partial nephrectomy programmes at Guy’s Hospital and is the highest volume surgeon for both robotic partial nephrectomy and upper tract robotics in the UK. His current research interests are in robotic surgery training, trans-perineal template biopsy techniques, active surveillance of low risk prostate cancer, sentinel node techniques and haptic probe development in robotic surgery.

Ben is a Trustee of The Urology Foundation Charity, for whom he regularly lectures, and is fortunate to have a very supportive surgical wife and three energetic boys

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Robotic Prostatectomy
• Kidney Cancer
• Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
• Robotic assisted Partial Nephrectomy
• Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP)
• Malignant and benign prostate disease
• Robotic laparoscopic prostatectomy
• Robotic partial nephrectomy
• Pyeloplasty
• Minimally invasive urological procedures
• HoLEP (laser prostate surgery)

Professor Heather Payne is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist, specialising in urological and prostate cancer at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust and she also sees patients privately, including at The Harley Street Clinic and The Prostate Centre.

Professor Payne trained at St Mary’s Hospital and after qualifying, spent time in general medicine in London and Haiti.

On her returned to London, she trained as a Clinical Oncologist, and also developed an interest in urological oncology.

In addition to her clinical work, she is also actively involved in research, and she has pioneered a program of high-dose rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer. Current research interests include hormone therapy, sensitisation of hormones and radiotherapy, predictive indices for bowel toxicity with radiotherapy, proton beam therapy for prostate cancer, chemotherapy and assisting men with decision making and prostate cancer.

Professor Payne is principal investigator in a number of international and national studies and has been published in peer-reviewed journals. She is Chair of the British Uro-oncology Group and Oncology Lead for the National Prostate Cancer Audit. She also serves on the Prostate Cancer Advisory Group for the UK.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• External Beam Radiotherapy
• Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy/Rapid Arc
• Low Does Brachytherapy
• Hormone Treatment
• Prostate Cancer
• Novel Hormone Therapy
• External beam radiotherapy
• Chemotherapy
• Brachytherapy
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Dr Lowe is a highly experienced Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist who specialises in the treatment of arrhythmias in adults and children with catheter ablation and pacemaker/defibrillator implantation. He works at The Harley Street Clinic and Portland Hospital, London. After studying medicine at St George’s Hospital, London, he completed his specialist training in London and Cambridge, before undertaking a Research Fellowship at The Mayo Clinic, USA.

Martin has been active in leading arrhythmia services in the UK through his work with the British Heart Rhythm Society and as Clinical Director at the Barts Heart Centre in London. His research interests include ablation strategies in those with arrhythmias accompanying congenital heart disease and heart muscle disease, risk stratification in patients and families predisposed to sudden cardiac death, and multisite pacing in heart failure patients, and his work is regularly published in peer-reviewed journals. He is active in the education of trainees in his field and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London and Queen Mary University London.

Consultant Adult and Paediatric Neurosurgeon Mr Sanjeev Bassi is a highly trained specialist in treating all kinds of problems relating to the brain and spine and operates a complete adult and paediatric practice for both cranial and spinal surgery. Mr Bassi offers treatment for a vast range of conditions, including sciatica, back and neck pain, hydrocephalus, brain haemorrhage, brain tumours, spinal tumours, cerebral palsy, neuroendoscopy and implantation of skeletal muscle relaxant pumps. He provides treatment for premature children and helps with antenatal diagnosis and counselling of parents of babies diagnosed with brain and spinal problems pre-birth.

In 1992, Mr Bassi graduated with a medical degree from the University of Manchester, after which he embarked upon further education and extensive training. After becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr Bassi continued his neurosurgery training in Nottingham before receiving a prestigious fellowship at the The Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris and the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. He took up a role at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford as a paediatric neurosurgical fellow before working as a Consultant Adult and Paediatric Neurosurgeon at King's College Hospital and Evelina London Children's Hospital.

Mr Bassi is one of two leading paediatric neurosurgeons based at King's College Hospital in London and performs 25-30% of all paediatric neurosurgical procedures in the South of England. His specialist areas of interest also include general neurosurgery for adults, paediatric diseases that progress into adulthood and degenerative spinal problems.

Thanks to his extensive training and expertise in the applications of neuroendoscopy in neurosurgery, Mr Bassi lectures internationally on the complex topics of endoscopic treatment of craniopharingiomas, third ventriculostomy and endoscopic applications in pineal tumours. He also leads a course on hydrocephalus and endoscopy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 

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Dr. Rodney Foale is a Consultant Cardiologist at The Harley Street Clinic. His main clinical interests are general adult cardiology, arrhythmia, hypertension and percutaneous interventional treatment of coronary artery disease. He specialises in angioplasty - a procedure that can open up a blocked blood vessel in the arteries using a tiny stent.

Dr. Rodney Foale was an Honours graduate from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1971. He completed further training at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, before travelling to India to work in rural Madras and Kashmir. After a training programme based in the UK at the Hammersmith and Royal London Hospitals, he took up the Registrar's post at the National Heart Hospital. He then spent two years at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA before returning to his Senior Registrar's post at the Hammersmith Hospital in London. In 1985 he was appointed as Consultant Cardiologist at St. Mary's Hospital, London. He then became the Clinical Director of Surgery, which incorporates Cardiovascular Medicine and Intensive Care. He is also the Co-Director of the International Centre for Circulatory Health (ICCH) which supports research at St Mary's Hospital-Imperial College.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Angioplasty
• Coronary Angiography
• CT Coronary Angiogram
• Defibrillator Implantation
• ECG (electrocardiogram)
• ECG monitor (24 hours)
• Coronary Artery Disease
• High Blood Pressure