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Date: 18 January 2021
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Consultant directory
With so many consultants, all with special interests, we appreciate it can be difficult for GPs to make the right referral choice, and it can be confusing for patients.
This consultant directory is offered as an easy reference guide to the specific clinical services and interests of all the consultants working at or for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
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- Acute Medicine
- Anaesthetics
- Breast surgery
- Burns and plastics
- Cardiology
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Clinical biochemistry
- Clinical haematology
- Colorectal surgery
- Critical care medicine
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Ear, nose and throat
- Healthcare for Older People
- Emergency Department
- Endocrinology
- Gastrointestinal medicine
- General medicine
- General surgery
- Hand surgery
- Imaging
- Immunology
- Liver medicine
- Liver surgery
- Maxillofacial
- Microbiology
- Neurology
- Neurophysiology
- Neurosurgery
- Occupational health
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Pain management
- Pathology
- Renal medicine
- Renal surgery
- Respiratory medicine
- Rheumatology
- Sexual health and HIV
- Sports and Exercise Medicine
- Stroke medicine
- Trauma
- Upper gastrointestinal surgery
- Urology
- Vascular surgery
Browse by A – Z results: letter p
- Secretary: 0121 371 2777
- Extension: 12777
- UHB
Dr Chetan Parcha, Consultant Anaesthetist
Graduation and postgraduation in India, with specialist registrar training at the West Midlands Deanery. Consultant anaesthetist at QEHB with a special interest in trauma anaesthesia.
- Secretary: 0121 371 2777
- Extension: 12777
- UHB
Dr Nilesh Parekh, Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist
Undergraduate and postgraduate training in Mumbai, India. Went on to do advanced training in critical care medicine in Australia.
- Secretary: 0121 371 2777
- Extension: 12777
- UHB
Dr Yasmin Poonawala, Consultant Anaesthetist
Biography pending.
- Secretary: 0121 371 2777
- Extension: 12777
- UHB
Dr Brian Pouchet, Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist
Biography pending.
- Secretary: 0121 371 2777
- Extension: 12777
- UHB
Dr Balaji Purushothaman, Consultant Anaesthetist
Graduated from medical school in South India and trained in London deanery. Special interests include: major surgery including homodynamic monitoring, and peri-operative optimisation.
- Secretary: 0121 371 8826
- Extension: 18826
- UHB
Professor Domenico Pagano, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Has MDs from Birmingham and Naples. Clinical interests are in adult cardiac surgery, aortic surgery and valve repair surgery. He is interested in myocardial metabolism and left ventricular hypertrophy.
- Secretary: 0121 371 7871
- Extension: 17871
- UHB
Dr Charles Percy, Consultant Haematologist
His subspecialist area is haemostasis and thrombosis. He also sees patients with general haematology disorders. In addition to his clinical role, he is the Clinical Service Lead for Laboratory Haematology.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4381
- Extension: 14381
- UHB
Prof Guy Pratt, Consultant Haematologist
Trained at Cambridge University qualifying in 1989. Consultant Haematologist in Birmingham since 2001, moved to UHB in 2016. Main clinical and research interests are multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
- Secretary: 0121 371 5888
- Extension: 15888
- UHB
Mr Thomas Pinkney, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Studied at University of Birmingham and majority of surgical training in West Mids. Interest in laparoscopic surgery, inflammatory bowel disease and undertook clinical fellowships in both before consultant appointment.
- Secretary: 0121 371 2777
- Extension: 12777
- UHB
Dr Nilesh Parekh, Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist
Took his undergraduate and postgraduate training in Mumbai, India. Went on to do advanced training in critical care medicine in Australia.
- Secretary: 0121 371 2767
- Extension: 12767
- UHB
Dr Brian Pouchet, Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist
Biography pending.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4813
- Extension: 14813
- UHB
Mr Paul Pracy, ENT Consultant Surgeon
Qualified from London in 1987. His professional areas of interest are head and neck cancer, cell biology of laryngeal cancer, head and neck surgical oncology, salivary gland disease and thyroid disease.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4971
- Extension: 14971
- UHB
Dr Shrikanth Pathmakanthan, Consultant Gastroenterologist
Qualified in Dublin in 1991. After his MRCPI moved to Nottingham for his doctoral thesis. He did specialist GI training in Sheffield. Specialises in luminal gastroenterology and therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4992
- Extension: 14992
- UHB
Mr Dominic Power, Trauma and Orthopaedics Consultant Hand Surgeon
Fellowships awarded from the Edinburgh and London Colleges of Surgeons. Orthopaedic Training at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham. Fellowships in hand surgery at the Pulvertaft Centre in Derby and the Birmingham Hand Centre.
- Secretary: 0121 371 2370
- Extension: 12370
- UHB
Dr Alison J Page, Consultant Radiologist
Qualified with honours from the University of Birmingham in 1992; undertook her radiology training in the West Midlands. She is a Radiologist with interests in colorectal, anal, head and neck cancer. She is the college tutor for radiology.
- Secretary: 0121 371 2370
- Extension: 12370
- UHB
Dr Arvind Pallan, Consultant Radiologist
Gained an MBChB in Birmingham 1997 and a MRCP (UK) in 2001. Radiology training received in West Midlands Deanery in 2004. Specialist interests include hepatobiliary and both large and small bowel imaging.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4654
- Extension: 14654
- UHB
Mr Thamara Perera, Consultant Liver Transplant and Multi-Organ Retrieval Surgeon
Graduated in Sri Lanka in 1999, obtained the Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons in England. Research interests include marginal liver grafts, metabolomics and the study of biomarkers predictive of graft function following liver transplantation.
- Secretary: 0121 371 5027
- Extension: 15027
- UHB
Mr Satyesh Parmar, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Head and Neck Oncology, Reconstruction
Qualified from the University of Nottingham and attended the University of Leeds School of Dentistry. He specialises in salivary gland, head and neck cancers and reconstruction.
- Secretary: 0121 371 5028
- Extension: 15028
- UHB
Mr Prav Praveen, Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon
Completed dentistry at Karnatak University, India & Medicine at University of Birmingham. Interface head & neck surgical oncology fellowship from Aintree University Hospitals, Liverpool. Interests in reconstructive micro vascular surgery.
- Secretary: 0121 371 6853
- Extension: 16853
- UHB
Mr Alessandro Paluzzi, Consultant Neurosurgeon
Neurosurgical training in Newcastle, MSc in surgical technology at Imperial College London, skull base fellowship in Pittsburgh US. Interest in trigeminal neuralgia, skull base, acoustic neuromas, neuroncology & pituitary surgery.
- Secretary: 0121 371 6894
- Extension: 16894
- UHB
Mr Vladimir Petrik, Consultant Neurosurgeon
Specialise in Intra-dural and intra-medullary pathology (tumour, CSF disorder), minimally invasive spinal surgery, degenerative spine, Foramen magnum and Cranio-Cervical junction pathology.
- Secretary: 0121 371 3588
- Extension: 13588
- UHB
Dr Jennifer Pascoe, Consultant Medical Oncologist
Graduated from Nottingham University in 2000 and completed specialist training in medical oncology in the West Midlands. Specialist interests include the management of gynaecological and lung cancers.
- Secretary: 0121 371 3574
- Extension: 13574
- UHB
Dr David R Peake, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Pancreatic Bone/Urology, Lung Cancers, Divisional Director, Division C
Graduated from University of Liverpool in 1984; trained in Liverpool and Sheffield; specialist training at the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology. He is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
- Secretary: 0121 371 3588
- Extension: 13588
- UHB
Dr Emilio Porfiri, Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Medical Oncology
Qualified in 1982; received his PhD from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in 1993. His areas of professional interest are cancer gene therapy and the treatment of urological tumours.
- Secretary: 0121 371 3571
- Extension: 13571
- UHB
Dr Pankaj Punia, Consultant Medical Oncologist
Qualified in India. Completed specialist training at St James Institute of Oncology, Leeds. Special interests in management of hepatobiliary cancers, colorectal cancers and clinical trials.
- Secretary: 0121 371 6906
- Extension: 16906
- UHB
Miss Helen E Palmer, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Medical Retina
Gained her first medical qualification from Guy's Hospital, London and completed her specialist training in London and Birmingham. Her interests include diabetic and vascular eye disease, macular degeneration and uveitis.
- Secretary: 0121 371 5837
- Extension: 15837
- UHB
Dr Tanya Pankhurst, Consultant Nephrologist
Trained in Newcastle in renal medicine. Now a Lead for Electronic Patient Record at UHB. Specialist in transplant medicine, transition medicine (for young adults coming into adult services) and dialysis. Lead in developing EPR, including PICS at UHB.
- Secretary: 0121 371 5840
- Extension: 15840
- UHB
Dr Jennifer Pinney, Consultant Nephrologist
Qualified from the University of Nottingham in 2003. Trained in general medicine in Birmingham and renal medicine in London. Awarded an MD from UCL in Amyloidosis. Interests include monoclonal disease and systemic amyloidosis.
- Secretary: 0121 371 5853
- Extension: 15853
- UHB
Miss Clare Pattenden, Consultant Renal Transplant and Vascular Access Surgeon
Graduated from the University of Leicester in 1999 and trained in the East Midlands. Clinical interests include perioperative care, renal transplantation and renal replacements therapy surgery.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4955
- Extension: 14955
- UHB
Mr Paul Parker, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon
Graduated from Queens University Belfast in 1985. Trauma and Trauma Resuscitation, Knee and Ankle Reconstruction. FRCS(Orth) Examiner.
- Secretary: 0121 371 5882
- Extension: 15882
- UHB
Ms Sonia Puig-Campano, Consultant Surgeon
Graduated from Universitat Autonoma Barcelona in 2001. Interests include: oesphago-gastric cancer, laparoscopic surgery and general surgery.
- Secretary: 0121 371 5734
- Extension: 15734
- UHB
Mr Prashant Patel, Consultant Urological Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in Urology
Trained in general surgery & urology and was awarded a doctorate from the University of Birmingham. His clinical interests are in urological cancers, laparoscopic & robotic assisted surgery. Holds a university position at the School of Cancer Sciences.
