Specialty Director
Dr Mark Gompels - Lead Clinician
Email (secretary): helen.wilson3@nbt.nhs.uk
Telephone (secretary): 0117 4146395

Consultants

Dr Sarah Johnston
Dr Andrew de Burgh Thomas

Hospital Specialists
Dr Sarah Golding

Pharmacists
Miss Jo Lattimer
Miss Claire Daniels

Senior Nursing Staff
Clinical Matron
Sarah lidgett

Clinical Nurse Specialists/Health Advisors
Kieran Sharkey
Liz Williams
Bradley Moore

Research Nurse
Louise Jennings

Other Staff
Medical Secretaries
Helen Wilson
Su Roberts

Outpatient Receptionist
Barbara Milton

Year of first qualification: 1997, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interest: Vascular Anaesthesia, Preoperative Assessment, Anaesthesia for lower limb Orthopaedics, Research

Secretary: Helen Pearce

Telephone: 0117 414 1574

Dr Ronelle Mouton, BSc(Hons); MSc; MBChB ; FRCARSI; PhD, is the lead consultant for vascular anaesthesia. She is an international expert in ischaemic preconditioning and reperfusion injury, has published and presented widely and continues to lead several research studies.

Dr Ronelle Mouton is an honorary senior lecturer with the University of Bristol, educational supervisor for academic trainees and lead consultant for the regional trainee research network (STAR).

She is a reviewer for medical journals and grant panels and is actively involved in several research committees.

GMC Number: 3617184

Year of first qualification: 1992, University College, London

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interests: Anaesthesia with specific interests in Orthopaedic Surgery, Urology, Medical Imaging and Endoscopy

Secretary: Helen Pearce

Telephone: 0117 414 5114

Dr Morris qualified in medicine in 1992 and trained in anaesthesia in Bristol, Cheltenham, and the USA before becoming a consultant in 2002.

As well as his clinical interests he has undertaken roles in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, medical school admissions, and representation of doctors within the Trust.

Since 2016 he has been a panel member of the Medical Practitioners' Tribunal Service - the fitness to practise arm of the GMC.

He is a Non-Executive Director of the Football Medical and Performance Association (FMPA), and Honorary Treasurer of the Society of Anaesthetists of the South West Region.

GMC Number: 3181474

Year of first qualificaton: 1986, Welsh National School of Medicine

Specialty: General Surgery 

Clinical interest: Endocrine and transplant surgery

Secretary: Julie Clash

Telephone: 0117 414 0825

Mr Justin Morgan was appointed consultant general and transplant surgeon  at Southmead Hospital Bristol in 1998.

He has a special interest in thyroid and parathyroid surgery leading a regional service for adults and children.

He is the Dean of the North Bristol Academy for the University of Bristol. 

GMC Number: 5204785

Year of first qualification: 1995

Specialty: Neuropsychiatry

Clinical interest: Epilepsy, Parkinson's, Huntington's, neurosurgical

Secretary: Jennifer Littler

Dr Monica Mohan manages neuropsychiatric conditions, in patients with Epilepsy, Movement disorder, Somatoform Disorders, Cogniform Disorder and other Neuropsychiatric conditions of Epilepsy, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis,  Huntington’s disease. 

She has a keen interest in the neuropsychiatric aspects of neurosurgeries for Epilepsy and Parkinson’s (VNS, DBS and neurosurgeries).

Consultants

Dr Izak Heys

Dr Ed Moran

Dr Alex May

Dr Jessica Barrett

Dr Megan Jenkins

Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright

Dr Julia Colston

Dr Maha Albur

We work in close partnership with infection colleagues based in Infection Sciences and at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.

Administrative team

Lynne Brown

Denise Bennett

GMC Number: 3335228

Year of first qualification: 1989, University of Edinburgh

Specialty: Rheumatology

Clinical interest: Inflammatory arthritis, transition clinic, ultrasound

Secretary: Liz Emery

Telephone: 0117 414 2850

Dr Nicola Minaur is the lead for the Rheumatology Ultrasound Service and the Young Adult Rheumatology clinic at NBT.

• Encouraging patients to self-manage
• Adolescent rheumatology and transition
• Rheumatology service redesign

GMC Number: 4294942

Year of first qualification: MA (Hons) Cambridge University 1993, MBCHB University of Bristol 1996

Specialty: Neurology

Clincial interests: Neuromuscular disease; Motor Neurone Disease

Secretary: Claire Edwards

Telephone: 0117 414 6688

Dr Andria Merrison trained in Neurology and undertook subspecialist training in Neuromuscular Disease (in London & Oxford) and Intensive Care Medicine (in Bristol).

Her period of research, studying the muscle regenerating capacity of human bone marrow derived stem cells, led to being an awarded an MD in 2008.

Dr Merrison is the clinical lead for the South West Neuromuscular Operational Delivery Network and the Director of the Bristol MND Centre. These are both regional services offering holistic, specialist care as close to home as possible; crossing traditional boundaries of health and social care and organisational divides.

Dr Merrison is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the Association of British Neurologists Neuromuscular Disease Specialist Interest Group; setting standards and publishing guidelines for the care of people living with Neuromuscular conditions in the UK.

Dr Merrison is a board member of the NHS England Neurosciences Clinical Reference Group and the South West Clinical Senate. She is also the NHS England Improving Value Lead for Neurosciences.

A wide range of endocrine and metabolic conditions are seen, including:

• Thyroid disease – thyrotoxicosis, complicated hypothyroidism, unexplained abnormal thyroid function tests, thyroid goitres & nodules if abnormal thyroid function.
• Calcium disorders and metabolic bone disease (other than osteoporosis).
• Vitamin D deficiency.
• Fluid balance & electrolyte disturbances (excluding renal failure): polyuria/polydipsia (not in diabetes), hyper/hypokalaemia, hyper/hyponatraemia, hypomagnasaemia.
• Polycystic ovary syndrome, oligo-amenorrhea, hirsutism, virilisation, male & female hypogonadism, gynaecomastia, galactorrhea, delayed puberty from age 16years and older,
  growth problems – short or tall stature.
• Pituitary disease: pituitary tumour, hypopituitarism, Cushing’s disease, acromegaly, prolactinoma, hyperprolactinaemia.
• Endocrine hypertension: mineralocorticoid hypertension, Conn’s sysndrome, phaeochromocytoma.
• Adrenal disease: Cushing’s syndrome, adrenal tumour / incidentaloma, hypoadrenalism, Addison’s disease.
• Hypoglycaemia not in diabetes.
• Sweating, flushing, turns suspected of having an endocrine cause.
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia.

The Endocrine Service works closely with a number of other specialties to provide a multi-disciplinary service for relevant patients with specialist endocrine conditions:

• Joint pituitary clinic, held fortnightly with pituitary neurosurgeons, for review of patients who may need pituitary surgery.
• Joint thyroid/ parathyroid clinic, held fortnightly with endocrine surgeons, for review of complex patients with thyroid or parathyroid problems.
• Diabetes/ endocrine antenatal clinic, held weekly with obstetricians, for review of pregnant women with endocrine (and diabetes) problems that require joint assessment.
• Joint adrenal clinic, held weekly with urological surgeons who provide adrenal surgery, for review of patients with adrenal disease who may require surgery.
• Endocrinology/ chemical pathology MDT (monthly), to discuss complex endocrine investigations and difficult to interpret endocrine tests
• A full range of dynamic endocrine tests are performed on the Medical Day Care unit.

GMC Number: 4214661

Year of first qualification: 1995, Edinburgh University

Specialty: Respiratory Medicine

Clinical interests:  Adult Respiratory Medicine & Interventional Pulmonology

Secretary: Lata Luchmun 

Telephone: 0117 414 2016

Email: Respiratoryadmin@nbt.nhs.uk

Dr Andrew Medford has been a Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Thoracic Medicine at Southmead Hospital since 2009, following a post-CCT fellowship in interventional pulmonology in 2008 and a research doctorate in ARDS, completing CCT in 2007.

Dr Medford is the Clinical lead for North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and SW Cancer Network tertiary and regional Endobronchial Ultrasound service and Specialty Education Lead for Respiratory Medicine and Deputy Lung Cancer Lead.

He is Specialist Adviser to NICE on interventional procedures, as well as serving on the editorial boards of Thoracic Cancer and Respiration.

He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Infection International, a BMJ Learning Module Reviewer and on the RCPE Symposium Committee Panel having previously served as JRCPE Education Editor and member of the RCP Professional Affairs Board, BTS Standards of Care Committee and Interventional Procedures SAG.

His clinical interests include adult thoracic medicine (especially cough, pulmonary hypertension and non-CF bronchiectasis) with subspecialist expertise in advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy (endobronchial ultrasound & autofluorescence), interventional pulmonology, mediastinal disease, lung cancer and clinical coding.

His research interests include endobronchial ultrasound, clinical coding, VEGF lung biology, ARDS, ventilator-associated pneumonia and pleural disease.