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Dr. Nazir Rampersaud is a research fellow at the UCL School of Pharmacy specializing in the development and testing of novel compounds for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. More specifically, Dr. Rampersaud's current research entails examining Exendin-4, a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist, in the treatment of both motor and nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson pathology. His research has been funded by Parkinson's UK, the Cure Parkinson's Trust, and the Michael J. Fox foundation.

Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College, London and Director of the Institute of Health Equity (UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health).

Professor Marmot has been awarded honorary doctorates from 14 universities and has led research groups on health inequalities for 40 years. He was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), which was set up by the World Health Organization in 2005, and produced the report entitled: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ in August 2008.

At the request of the British Government, he conducted the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England, which published its report 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives' (aka The Marmot Review) in February 2010. This was followed by the European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide, for WHO Europe in 2014. He chaired the Breast Screening Review for the NHS National Cancer Action Team and from 2011-2004 was a member of The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health. He is currently Chair of the PAHO Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Region of the Americas.

He set up the Whitehall II Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality. He leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and is engaged in several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. He served as President of the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2010-2011, and President of the World Medical Association (2015-16) and he is President of the British Lung Foundation. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years and in 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities.

Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot is a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and a former Vice President of the Academia Europaea. He won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology in 2004, gave the Harveian Oration in 2006, and won the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research in 2008.

Pat O’Brien has been a Consultant & Honorary Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University College London Hospitals since 1999. He is currently the Divisional Clinical Director for Women's Health. He specialises in Maternal Medicine and high-risk obstetrics, and at UCLH jointly runs a multi-disciplinary antenatal clinic involving consultants in Fetal Medicine, Cardiology, Haematology, Diabetes, Anaesthesia, and an Obstetric Physician. He has a particular interest in medical complications of pregnancy. He lectures widely in the UK and abroad, and runs courses on fetal monitoring, medical problems on the delivery suite, psychiatric problems and cardiac disorders in pregnancy.

He is the Chair of the International Division of the Institute for Women’s Health in London and a media spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. He is a reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration and several medical journals. He sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and the BJM. He examines for the DRCOG examination. He has been a member of the obstetric guideline development group of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the UK. He also works regularly with BBC Television (British Broadcasting Corporation) as an obstetric advisor.

Dr Nilesh Pareek in an interventional cardiologist at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London.

He held a previous position as a specialist Registrar in Cardiology at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and was a Fellow in Interventional Cardiology within the London Deanery.

I studied basic neuroscience at Leeds and UCL before undertaking a PhD at Imperial College.

During my doctoral studies, I developed an interest in studying the central regulation of energy and glucose homeostasis using in vivo imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET).

I subsequently held brief post-doctoral positions at the University of Oxford and MRC London Institute of Science before a lengthier stay at the BMBF- and DFG-funded obesity research centres in Leipzig University, Germany.

I am currently Lead Scientist at the Department of Experimental Surgery situated at the University of Wuerzburg where I am working on the mechanisms of weight loss after gastric bypass surgery using animal models. 

Professor Sikora is a British physician specialising in oncology. He is medical director of Rutherford Health, and Director of Medical Oncology at the Bahamas Cancer Centre. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Buckingham, and a partner in and dean of Buckingham's medical school.

Professor Sikora studied medical science and biochemistry at Cambridge, where he obtained a double first.

After clinical training he became a house physician at The Middlesex Hospital and registrar in oncology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He later became a research student at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge working with Nobel Prize winner, Dr Sydney Brenner.

He obtained his PhD and became a clinical fellow at Stanford University, California before returning to direct the Ludwig Institute in Cambridge.

He has been Clinical Director for Cancer Services at Hammersmith for 12 years and established a major cancer research laboratory there funded by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He chaired Help Hammer Cancer, an appeal that raised £8m towards the construction of the new Cancer Centre at Hammersmith. He became Deputy Director (Clinical Research) of the ICRF.From 1997 to 1999 he was Chief of the WHO Cancer Program and from 1999 to 2002 and Vice President, Global Clinical Research (Oncology) at Pharmacia Corporation.

He has published over 300 papers and written or edited 20 books and is on the editorial board of several journals and is the founding editor of Gene Therapy and Cancer Strategy.

He was a member of the UK Health Department’s Expert Advisory Group on Cancer (the Calman-Hine Committee), the Committee on Safety of Medicines and remains an adviser to the WHO. He currently directs a cancer drug donation programme in Africa.

Asma Khalil is a Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine at St George’s University Hospital (University of London). She is a subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine, specialising in scanning women and babies with complications in pregnancy. She is the lead for the Multiple Pregnancy service at St George’s Hospital, the referral unit for the South West London region, but also cares for women with low risk pregnancies.

Dr Khalil gained her MD at the University of London in 2009 following two years’ research into pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure in pregnancy). She also has a Masters degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an MRC scholarship.

She is a representative member for fetal medicine at the national Clinical Reference Groups for specialised services. She has active collaborations with international societies, particularly in developing countries. She is also an active member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS), International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy (ISPD), International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG), International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy (ISSHP) and Society of Reproductive Investigation (SRI). She works closely with the team in the Twins and Multiple Births Association (TAMBA).

Mr Christopher Anderson is a consultant urological surgeon with a specialist interest in renal and prostate cancer. He is the Clinical Lead of the Robotic Surgery Unit and the Lead Cancer Clinician at St George's Hospital, London.

Mr Anderson was one of the pioneers of Robotic Surgery in the UK and holds membership at the British Association for Urological Surgeons. He completed his undergraduate work at Stellenbosch and his postgraduate training in Cape Town, South Africa, before taking up a substantive consultant post at St George’s Healthcare, London, in 1999. He undertook fellowships to Cleveland, the University of Miami and Detroit in the United States before travelling to the University of Leipzig in Germany where he learned laparoscopic radical prostatectomy due to the increasing popularity of minimally invasive surgical approaches to prostate cancer in recent years.

Mr Anderson was one of the first to adopt laparoscopic techniques in urology surgery in the UK. In 2004 he introduced laparoscopic renal cryotherapy, also the first operation of its kind in the UK. He continued to develop this technique and has the largest series with long term follow-up in the country.

He was an integral member of the team that pioneered robotic surgery in the UK, introducing the robotic surgery programme to St George’s Healthcare in July 2008, and has successfully developed the service as lead robotic surgeon.

His particular clinical interests include robotic prostatectomy, robotic partial nephrectomy, robotic pyeloplasty and laparoscopic nephrectomy. Mr Anderson is available for private consultations at The Princess Grace Hospital, London.

Dr Sufyan Hussain is Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King's College London and Honorary Clinical Lecturer in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London.

A former Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow And Darzi Fellow in Clinical Leader ship at Imperial College London, Dr Hussain completed his medical degree and MA in molecular sciences from the University of Cambridge. He served as a Visiting Research Fellow at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School.

He completed a PhD in neuroendocrinology investigating how the brain controls appetite and blood glucose.

John Green is a leading internationally recognised oncologist specializing in gynaecologic and ovarian cancers.