90 Sloane Street

Cardiologist

Dr Vias Markides

Vias is the head of cardiology at the Royal Brompton Hospital. He joined us in 2016 and has his clinic at 90 Sloane Street on Friday morning. Through Vias we are able to provide the very best cardiology care. His sub speciality is arrhythmias and ablations.

Cardiologist

Professor Diana Gorog

Diana treats patients with all types of heart disease, including angina, hypertension, heart failure and valvular heart disease. She undertakes coronary angiography and angioplasty. Diana also heads a research team in thrombosis and prevention of heart attacks. Her clinic at 90 Sloane Street is on Wednesday afternoons.

Consultant Cardiologist

Dr. Denis Pellerin

Denis is a consultant cardiologist at The Heart Hospital. He established the best equipped, most specialised and highest throughput Echo Department in the UK. Denis brought to 90 Sloane Street the latest Echo machine with its extraordinary image quality. Denis performs stress echo tests on Thursday mornings.

Dermatologist

Dr Janet Ross

Janet is a consultant dermatologist who trained at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’ Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She is also an NHS consultant working at University Hospital Lewisham and an honorary consultant at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas Hospital London. Janet's clinic is on Friday mornings (it should sometimes be possible to see Janet as part of a medical on a Friday).

Professor in Oncogenetics

Professor Ros Eeles

Ros is a Professor in Oncogenetics at The Institute of Cancer Research, London. She has led an extensive number of worldwide genetic trial collaborations repeatedly moving the boundaries in the world of prostate cancer and genetics. Ros discovered a significant proportion of the genes involved in prostate cancer. She offers consultations in cancer genetics to affected and unaffected individuals assessing their risk of inherited genetic variants which may increase their cancer risk. Samples can be sent off for testing. Prof Eeles work on the Whole Genome is not remunerated by the London Genetic Centre.

Md, Consultant Cancer Genetics

Dr Gabriella Christina Pichert–Eichenberger

Gabi worked initially in medical oncology but for many years has specialised in cancer genetics; providing cancer risk assessment, genetic counselling and advice on the management of individuals and families with an inherited predisposition to cancer, such as women with a personal and/or family history of breast cancer. Previously Consultant in Cancer Genetics at Guy`s and St Thomas NHS Foundation and Joint Lead for Cancer Genetic Services. Recently has been working in Berne.

Clinical Lead for Genetics

Dr Lucy Side

Lucy is Clinical Lead for Genetics at University Hospitals Southampton, having completed her specialist training in Oxford, and spent 9 years as a Consultant in Genetics at Great Ormond St Hospital. She is a Senior Research Associate at UCL Institute for Women’s Health where her interest is in gynaecological cancer susceptibility, and has published over 100 papers in peer reviewed journals. She sees patients who are requesting testing for inherited alterations in genes that increase cancer risk.

Consultant Cardiologist

Dr James Ware

James Ware Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals and a Reader in Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London, Group Head at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, and . Dr Ware graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2000, and pursued general medical training in Cambridge, London and Geneva before appointment to specialist training in Cardiology in 2007. After a PhD at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (CSC), funded by a Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, he was appointed an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in 2012, and undertook post-doctoral research at the MRC CSC, Imperial College, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship in 2015 and returned from Boston to start his own research group.James’ overarching research aims are to understand the impact of genetic variation on the heart and circulation, and to use genome information to improve patient care.

GU/HIV

Dr Ann-Britt Jones

Ann-Britt trained in GU/HIV medicine at Chelsea and Westminster before starting a career in Clinical Oncology. She has a MSc in Epidemiology with research experience at the CDC in the USA and NICE in London. She is currently a Clinical Research Fellow at The Institute of Cancer Research under the tutelage of Professor Eeles. Her MD focuses on the Integration of Germline Genetic Variations to Precision Medicine in Healthcare in screening and treatment paradigms.

Lead Nurse Researcher

Liz Bancroft

Liz Bancroft is the Lead Nurse Researcher in Cancer Genetics at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and has an honorary appointment at The Institute of Cancer Research in the Oncogenetics Team. She has worked in the speciality of Cancer Genetics for 16 years counselling patients about cancer risk, genetic testing and cancer screening. Together with Prof Eeles, she has set up a nurse-led ‘Prostate Genetic Risk’ clinic into which men with prostate cancer and their family members are referred for genetic counselling and a risk assessment and enrolment into various research opportunities. Liz has a PhD and works with Prof Eeles to lead a programme of research looking at the psychosocial aspects of integrating genetics into the prostate cancer screening pathway, as well as looking at the psychosocial impact of whole genome screening in primary care.

Consultant Gynaecologist

Lisa Webber

Lisa is a Consultant Gynaecologist who graduated from Oxford University and obtained her PhD at Imperial College, London. She mainly sees patients as a general gynaecologist but specialises in fertility and disorders of ovarian function, including polycystic ovary syndrome. HRT is also an important part of Lisa’s work. Many of her patients now have their routine gynaecological care at 90 Sloane Street. Lisa has published in The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and the Journal of Endocrinology. She was a contributing author to the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (5th edition), the Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes and co-author of a patient information book entitled 'Infertility: The Facts'.

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Mary Burgess

Mary Burgess is a highly experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has held senior roles at many of London Leading Teaching Hospitals: most recently as Head of the General Oncology Psychological Care Team at UCLH. She has trained in a variety of therapeutic approaches including CBT; ACT, DBT, Systemic, Mindfulness; Brief solution focussed therapy, EMDR. She specialises in psychological responses to physical illness and trauma, and psychological responses in the individual and their family faced with genetic susceptibility to cancer.