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Weight Loss Team & Surgeons
Andrew Kemp
Andrew Kemp qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1984. He has spent most of his career in Acute and emergency surgical work.
In 2006 he attended the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons where he completed the Advanced Bariatric OR nurses course – the only nurse working in Europe to have done so. He also attended the Inamed master class and workshops in gastric banding.
He now works as an independent advisor in Bariatric surgical procedures. He has recently started to offer his services training nurses/ dieticians in the clinical safe adjustment of gastric bands. Andrew also appears on the Anne Diamond web site “fat happens” as an expert in weight loss surgery.He is a member of the teaching faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where he supports courses for Consultant surgeons three times a year. He is also a member of the RCS group which looks at the way in which surgeons are trained now and in the future.
He continues to lecture Internationally on subjects such as “The prevention of Surgical site infections” and “Protection against Bird Flu and SARS”. He is the Infection control officer for the Yorkshire foot hospitals, where he advises on all aspects of infection control.
He is one of the two inventors of the Q Bioshield system, which is a system of hospital disinfection that ensures areas of hospitals become hazardous to microbes for up to one year after treatment.
He has taken a lead roll in the redesign and development of the worlds first portable ultra clean air systems, for use in operating theatres. This system is now in use in both the NHS and private hospitals in the UK as well as across Europe.
He holds additional specialist qualifications in;
Operating department practice
Bariatric surgery
Infection Control
Health and Safety
Louise King
Louise qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1990-specialising in Mental Health.
She is registered with the NMC and is a member of the Royal College of Nursing.
Since 1990 she has worked in several areas of psychiatry and general medicine.
Louise holds the Master Practitioner qualification in Eating Disorders and Obesity.
She has been working with Gateway Health as a consultant Nurse since 2007.She was part of the professional team who developed the Gateway Health Lifestyle
Programme which has produced fantastic results amongst Gateway Health patients.
This study was independently published in the Medical Journal ‘AUGIS’ (Association
of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of GB and Ireland) in 2008.
Anna Read
Anna Read is a Registered Dietitcian who is registered with the Health Professions Council and works to their code of conduct. She is an Obesity Specialist Dietician who has worked in Nottingham for over ten years. She has a substantial NHS caseload and has a wealth of experience and knowledge of working with patients who are overweight or obese.
She works with patients to help them manage their weight through lifestyle, medical (including supervising prescribable medication for obesity) and surgical treatments.
Anna is involved in teaching and training other health professionals to help people lose weight. She is trained in counselling and psychological techniques to help people and enjoys all areas of her work. She holds weekly clinics for private patients having obesity surgery and finds this work particularly rewarding.
Helen West
Helen West qualified as a dietitian with a BSc Honours degree in human nutrition and dietetics in 1996. Continued professional developement includes an accreditation in Sports Nutrition in 1997, a diploma in Advanced Hypnotherapy in 2001, a MSc in the psychological approaches to health and management in 2006. In 2008 Helen qualified as a Master Practitioner in eating disorders and obesity with the National Centre for Eating Disorders.
Helen has worked as a dietitian both privately and within the NHS over the last 13 years. Her expertise is in obesity, disordered eating and diabetes with a particular interest in gut related disorders such as, irritable bowel, Crohn¹s disease, ulcerative colitis and coeliac disease. Helen has written magazine articles for Complete Nutrition and The Nutritional Practitioner, and regularly presents structured education to diabetic patients.
Our surgeons are the UK's leading consultants specialising in weight loss surgery, so as well as specialising in general and upper gastrointestinal surgical work they all have one thing in common, they are committed to providing clinical excellence and the best possible care to their patients.
They are UK based and they are all NHS consultants too. Our team has the experience and expertise in this specialist area of treatment. Our specialist nurses work closely with the surgeons to deliver our unique weight management programme, making sure you have the care and treatment you deserve to achieve your health goals.
With the Gateway team you can relax, knowing that you are in the best hands for your treatment and aftercare.
Dr Asif Naqvi
Dr Asif Naqvi FRCP is a senior consultant Gastroenterologist at Diana Princess of Wales NHS Hospital and St Hughs Hospital in Grimsby North East Lincolnshire UK.
He provides comprehensive Gastroenterology services both in NHS and private sector. He has special expertise in the endoscopic insertion of Intragastric Balloons and runs a successul weight reduction programme with Gateway Health. His research and audit interests cover many aspects of gastrointestinal medicine and he runs an active teaching programme.
Mr Roger Ackroyd
The most common operations offered by him include laparoscopic gastric band, laparoscopic roux-en-Y gastric bypass and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
Read More about Mr Rodger Ackroyd
Prof. Nadey Hakim
KCJSJ , MD , PhD, FRCS, FRCSI, FACS, FICSPhoto by Lord Snowdon
Nadey S Hakim is a General, Bariatric and Transplant Surgeon. He is the Surgical Director of the West London Transplant Unit based at the Hammersmith Hospital . He has a particular interest and expertise in kidney and pancreas transplantation. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Bariatric Surgeon. He obtained his MD from Paris Rene Descartes University ; he received his surgical training at Guy’s Hospital in London , PhD in small bowel transplantation from University College London. He completed a Gastrointestinal Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic and a Multiorgan Transplant Fellowship at the University of Minnesota .
Professor Hakim successfully started the first Pancreas Transplant Program in the SE of England. From the administrative point of view he is the Editor in Chief of International Surgery, a prestigious peer reviewed journal and on the Editorial board of Transplant Proceedings, Graft, Experimental and Clinical Transplantation and of several other journals.
Professor Hakim is a Member of the Kidney-Pancreas Committee of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTP), Past President of Transplantation Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was part of the Working Party to Review Organ Transplantation in the UK . He has represented Britain in the International team which has performed the world’s first arm Transplant and the world’s first double arm Transplant. He has given numerous presentations in the UK and throughout the world.
Professor Nadey S Hakim has been awarded an Honorary Professorship of Sao Paolo, University of Lyon , University of Lima Peru and University of Beshkent Ankara and has been a visiting Professor at several prestigious centres including Harvard University .
He has recently been awarded the 2007 J. Wesley Alexander Prize for outstanding Research in the field of Transplantation.
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