Together with a dedicated core team of excellent physicians and surgeons across all disciplines, Dr Mark Ali has assembled a world class global panel of doctors with a transparent audit process that verifies their technical excellence, patient satisfaction, accreditation and professional indemnity status. By virtue of his many years of clinical experience and outstanding patient satisfaction analyses, he is well placed to understand not only what clients want from a best-in-class medical service but also how best to deliver it. Every sub-specialty is covered and the full CVs of the global panel members are available on request to clients. Included below are the short CVs of the founder and a few examples of panel members who have recently used their expertise to assist GMG clients.
Dr Mark Ali BSC Hons MBBS (Lond) FRCS (Eng) FRCS CTh
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, London, Paris & Milan.
Qualified 1989 University College Medical School, London.
Specialty
Adult Cardiac Surgery
General Thoracic Surgery
Background
University College and Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London 1983 -1989
BSc Hons in Immunology and Molecular Biology 1986 University of London
MBBS 1989 University of London
FRCS (Royal College of Surgeons of England) 1993
FRCS CTh (Specialist Diploma in Cardiothoracic Surgery) 2000
London Cardiothoracic Surgery Training Rotation 1995-2002
GMC Accredited specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery 2003
Fellowship award from Royal College of Surgeons of England 2003
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, La Pitie Hospital, Paris, France, 2003-2004
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Royal Victoria Hospital NHS, 2004-2009
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Harley St, London W1 2009-present
Interests
Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery
Total Arterial Revascularisation
Honoured Guest Lecturer at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (United States)
Outstanding patient satisfaction reviews including national 360° surveys.
Mortality all cases from June 2006 is 1.8% compared to the Euroscore predicted mortality of 4.5%.
Dr Amen Sibtain
Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Barts and The London NHS Trust
Dr Amen Sibtain MD MRCP FRCR specialises in the treatment of Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary and Head and Neck cancers. He has particular expertise in chemoradiotherapy, new radiotherapy techniques, including Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and is an early adopter of the Cyberknife.
Dr Sibtain worked at the Royal Marsden, Mount Vernon and The Middlesex Hospitals before he was appointed to Barts. He was awarded his MD degree from the University of London for research in tumour hypoxia.
He is a Past President of the Oncology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, an examiner in oncology for the Royal College of Radiologists, oncology advisor for BBC Drama, a member of the medical advisory panel for Cancer Backup, Programme Director for Clinical Oncology Specialist Training Committee for the London Deanery, Chairman of the Head and Neck Tumour Board for North East London, and the Clinical Lead in Head and Neck Cancer at Barts.
He has edited the book ‘Towards the Prevention of Cancer’, published in November 2007 by the RSM press.
Mr Norman Waterhouse
Norman Waterhouse graduated from Birmingham University Medical School in 1978. After four years of training in general surgery he qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1982. His higher surgical training in Plastic Surgery was carried out in Bristol and London as well as periods spent at specialist centres in Bordeaux, Adelaide and Tokyo. In 1988 he completed his accreditation and gained the Specialist Fellowship in Plastic Surgery (FRCS Plas).
Following this specialist accreditation, his first appointment as Consultant in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery was to St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals. He has since been appointed as Consultant to the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital where he leads the specialist Craniofacial Unit treating all forms of facial conditions. Facial surgery constitutes his special interest in his NHS practice whilst in private practice he undertakes all aspects of cosmetic surgery in addition to Reconstructive and Craniofacial surgery.
He has published over forty papers in the medical literature and has an active research and teaching programme in his NHS practice. He supervises undergraduate degree courses in conjunction with Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine. He lectures nationally and internationally and teaches techniques of modern cosmetic surgery including endoscopic (keyhole) surgery, on courses both in England and Europe. Since 1996 he has organised the Annual Instructional Course in Cosmetic Surgery at the Wellington Hospital. Overseas projects include lecturing and treating children with facial conditions in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
He is a full member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), the European Craniofacial Society, the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery and the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. He is a former President of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS). He is included in the specialist register established by the GMC in 1995, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of British Journal of Plastic Surgery.
Memberships
Full member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)
Full member of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS)
Full member of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
Full member of the European Society of Craniofacial Surgery
Active member of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery
Mr Vincent Dor
Academic Appointment
Associate Professor Cardio-thoracic Surgery : Marseille University 1965-1972
Fellow in Cardiac Surgery : Stanford University U.S.A.1966
Professor of Thoracic and CardiovascularSurgery (Chief of Department) : Nice University 1973-1987
Chairman of the International Cardiothoracic Center of Monaco since 1987
Thoracic Surgery
Surgical stabilization of flait chest (1965-1967)
Tracheal resection for stenosis and tumor, a series of 41 cases (1965)
Delayed pulmonary thrombo-endarterectomy for chronic pulmonary hypertension (1970-1975)
Cardiac Surgery
Valvular replacement by fresh aortic homograft (1968)
Adult and paediatric cardiac surgery under extra-corporal circulation without using blood since 1968 (more than 18.000 cases out of which more than 400 surgeries for Jehovah Witnesses)
Cardiac transplantation, heterotopic (first case in 1978) & orthotopic
Post infarction left ventricular reconstruction (endoventricular patch plasty with septal exclusion) in procedure since 1984 (1300 patients operated on).
Multiple arterial coronary revascularization (more than 4000 cases) since 1990.
Aortic root replacement by pulmonary autograft (Ross procedure).
Dr Cathy Speed BMedSci, MA, Dip Sports Med, PhD, FRCP, FFSEM (I) (UK)
In addition to the Directorship of Sports Medicine UK, Cathy also holds the following posts:
Consultant in Rheumatology, Sports & Exercise Medicine, Addenbrooke’s and Cambridge Lea Hospitals, Cambridge and Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, London
Lead Physician to the English Institute of Sports, Eastern Region.
Chief Physician to GB Badminton
Physician To Middlesex CCC at the Lords Ground, London
Physician to English Ladies Golf Association
Medical Officer for the Centre of Cricketing Excellence,Cambridge
Dr Speed plays a significant role in the care of Olympic and other elite athletes. She has a special expertise in the management of sporting and non-sporting musculoskeletal injuries and chronic pain syndromes plus a specialist interest in arthritis and in exercise medicine. She has a special interest in tendon and other soft tissue injuries and in diagnostic ultrasound. She applies advanced diagnostic techniques, in particular imaging and biomechanical assessments, in the evaluation of medical complaints. She is widely published and is the author of textbooks on soft tissue and sports injuries.
Dr Speed also utilises therapies including various injection therapies, extracorporeal shock wave therapy and forms of exercise and rehabilitation in managing problems. She also has a background in exercise physiology and has an Exercise Prescription Clinic for the development of customised exercise and or training programmes to suit all types of individual, from the sedentary to the fit athlete.
