Mr Patrick O’Brien
MB, BCh, MFFP, FRCOG
Consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Mr Pat O’Brien has been a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London ( UCL) since 1999. He qualified as a doctor in Ireland, but all his postgraduate training has been in London. He specialises in Maternal Medicine and high-risk obstetrics, with particular interest in complications of pregnancy and jointly runs a multi-disciplinary antenatal clinic involving consultants in Fetal Medicine, Cardiology, Haematology, Diabetes, Anaesthesia, and an Obstetric Physician.
Mr O'Brien is the Chair of the International Division of the Institute for Women’s Health in London, a spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, a member of the Obstetric Guideline Development Group of the National Institutue for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK, and a reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration and several medical journals. He lectures widely in the UK and abroad, examines for the DRCOG examination and works as an Obstetric Advisor for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
Mr Pranav P Pandya
BSc MD, FRCOG
Consultant in Fetal Medicine
Mr Pranav Pandya is a Consultant in Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at The Institute for Women’s Health, University College London Hospitals. He is a graduate of University College London and undertook training in Fetal Medicine at Kings College Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto and University College Hospital.
He is Director of the Fetal Medicine Unit at University College Hospital, with a multi-disciplinary team of paediatricians, surgeons and midwives. His special interests and research areas are screening for chromosomal abnormalities, first trimester ultrasound, invasive prenatal diagnosis, fetal therapy and fetal echocardiography
Mr Seni Subair
MBBS MRCOG
Consultant in Obstetrics
Mr Seni Subair is a Consultant in Obstetrics and labour ward lead Obstetrician at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified as a doctor in 1998 and undertook all his postgraduate training in London.
He specialises in Labour ward leadership, Maternal Medicine and high-risk obstetrics.AND jointly runs multi-disciplinary antenatal clinics involving consultants in Diabetes, Psychiatry and an Obstetric Physician and a preconception counselling clinic as part of the antenatal endocrine service at UCLH. He has a particular interest in complicated pregnancies and regularly teaches on the advanced life support in Obstetrics course.
Mr Subair is Chair of the Maternity Services Clinical Guidelines and Labour Care Governance Committees at UCLH anda member of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society.
Dr Maggie Blott
MRCOG
Consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Dr Maggie Blott is a Consultant in Obstetrics and Maternal Medicine at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at The Institute for Women's Health at University College London (UCL). Dr Blott graduated from Newcastle University in 1982 and has done all her postgraduate training in London. She was appointed as a consultant in 1994 to King’s College Hospital where she stayed for ten years, after a brief return to Newcastle Dr Blott was appointed on to the staff of University College London NHS Trust in 2006 where she jointly manages a multidisciplinary high risk antenatal clinic and runs the labour ward.
Dr Blott is a regular columnist for Top Sante magazine and writes regularly for a number of other pregnancy related publications and she is a spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.
Dr David Williams
PhD, FRCP
Consultant Physician
Dr David Williams is a Consultant Physician at the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and runs the Maternal Medicine service with a multi-disciplinary team of physicians, obstetricians and midwives. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at The Institute for Women’s Health, University College London (UCL). He trained in renal medicine and general internal medicine before specialising in obstetric medicine and obtained a PhD for research into pre-eclampsia from UCL and previously worked at The Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and Imperial College as consultant in Obstetric Medicine.
Specific clinical interests are hypertension, kidney disease, rheumatological and neurological disease, endocrine disorders and thrombosis in pregnancy.
Dr Williams has published widely on pre-eclampsia, kidney disease and other medical disorders in pregnancy. His research team works on improving our understanding of pre-eclampsia and its management. Other research interests include the prediction of a woman’s future health from pregnancy outcome.
He is president of the UK Obstetric Medicine Society and guest editor of a theme issue of The British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology on women’s future health after pregnancy.
Dr Nillie Teymouri
PhD, MSc, BOst.Med, BSc, DO
Consultant Osteopath
Dr Nillie Teymouri is a registered consultant osteopath, naturopath & acupuncturist. She graduated from the British College of Osteopathic Medicine, and has a degree in Biomedical Sciences from King's College London and a Doctorate, Masters degree in Immunology from Imperial College.
Dr Teymouri has a wide range of experience in treating adults, children and babies. She believes in individual patient-centered care to determine the cause of each patient's illness. Treatment may consist of any one or a combination of the therapies in which she is trained. She also understands that a variety of causes may lead to each patient's current condition, such as allergens, unresolved pathogenic infections, inability of the body to break down, absorb and utilize nutrients, or nutritional and hormonal imbalances, any of which may lead to physical and emotional stresses. After listening to the patient and asking comprehensive questions, and following a brief physical examination, a tentative diagnosis will be made and a plan of therapy proposed. The aim is for the client to feel relaxed and comfortable with the treatment offered.
Dr Teymouri is registered with all the major medical insurers, such as PPP, Norwich Union, WPA, Cigna and others.
Julie Hogg
MSc, BSc (hons), RM, RN
Midwife
Julie graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in 2001, where she initially studied adult nursing and midwifery. She has extensive experience in the provision of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care and has more recently specialised in prenatal screening and counselling. She is currently undertaking a Masters degree in Family Health and works as a midwifery sister at University College Hospital based in the Fetal Medicine Unit.
Julie’s research interests include non-invasive prenatal diagnosis and women’s experiences of prenatal screening and diagnosis.
Dr Hazem El-Refaey
Consultant Obstetrician &
Gynaecologist
Hazem El-Refaey is a consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and is Lead Clinician for the Hospital’s Early Pregnancy Care Unit. Hazem also cares for pregnant women at the Harley Street Centre for Women, and delivers his private patients in the newly-expanded “Kensington Wing”, the private maternity ward of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Mr El-Refaey has extensive experience in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. After graduating from Cairo University, he spent all his working life as a doctor in the UK, he obtained his MD degree with merits from Aberdeen University and his specialist training in the University College London. Through extensive research and pioneering modifications to a number of established treatments, he has gained an international reputation in minimizing the complications of childbirth and miscarriage. These modifications are now widely used in the UK and around the world.
In Gynaecology, he believes that scan-based assessment is the method of choice in screening and diagnosing problems affecting women’s health. Most gynaecological problems require an ultrasound scan to exclude problems with the ovaries or womb. An ultrasound scan performed by an expert gynaecologist drops the barrier between clinical and radiological assessment resulting in a “One –Stop” approach to diagnosis and treatment of gynaecological problems.
Mr El-Rafaey scans and manages patients in his “One-Stop” gynaecology clinic at the Harley Street Centre for Women. The clinic deals with general gynaecological problems, as well as early pregnancy scanning and miscarriage.
Mr George Pandis
Consultant Gynaecologist
Mr George Pandis is a full time Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at University College London Hospitals (www.uclh.nhs.uk). He regularly manages a wide variety of conditions in benign gynaecology which require laparoscopic or hysteroscopic (keyhole) surgery, such as pelvic pain, heavy periods or other menstrual problems, ovarian cysts and fibroids. His main area of expertise is advanced laparoscopic surgery and endometriosis.
Mr Pandis is one of three consultant gynaecology surgeons at the UCLH endometriosis centre which is among the first national centres accredited by the British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy in performing complex laparoscopic surgery for rectovaginal endometriosis (www.bsge.org.uk/endometriosis-centres.php).
