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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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• • Secretary: 0121 371 2777
  • Extension: 12777
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  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
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  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
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  Dr Yasmin Poonawala, Consultant Anaesthetist

  Biography pending.

• • Secretary: 0121 371 2777
  • Extension: 12777
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  Dr Brian Pouchet, Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist

  Biography pending.

• • Secretary: 0121 371 2777
  • Extension: 12777
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  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 4878
  • Extension: 14878
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  Mr Francis C Peart, Plastics Consultant Surgeon

  Qualified in South Africa in 1991. Specialises in facial and rhinoplasty surgery, breast and abdominal surgery, and hand surgery. He has carried out research into hand, lower limb and cosmetic surgery.

• • Secretary: 0121 371 8826
  • Extension: 18826
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  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 4996
  • Extension: 14996
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  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
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  Dr 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
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  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
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  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
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  Dr Brian Pouchet, Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist

  Biography pending.

• • Secretary: 0121 371 4813
  • Extension: 14813
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  Mr Vladimir Petrik, Consultant Neurosurgeon

  Special interests in complex spine surgery, neurooncology.

• • Secretary: 0121 371 3588
  • Extension: 13588
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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 4191
  • Extension: 15837
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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 4955
  • Extension: 14955
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  Professor Sir Keith M Porter, Professor in Clinical Traumatology, Clinical Service Lead for Trauma

  Qualified from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School in 1974. His interests include trauma care, diaphyseal and intra-articular fractures, sports injuries, fracture non-unions, trauma reconstruction, knee surgery and surgery for tendonopathy.

• • Secretary: 0121 371 5882
  • Extension: 15882
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  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
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  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.