Management Team

Dr Fong Chau: Clinical Lead

Graham Bartlett: General Manager 

Paul Cousins: Specialty Manager

Kelly Thompson: Support Manager

Consultant Team

Dr Fong Chau, Clinical Lead and Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Karen Webley

Dr Kathryn Lonnen, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Karen Webley

Dr Elizabeth Cheyne, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Christa Stengel

Dr Vernon Parfitt,, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Christa Stengel & Karen Webley

Dr Danijela Tatovic, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Christa Stengel & Karen Webley

Dr Georgina Russell, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Karen Webley

Dr Hassan Kahal, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Christa Stengel

Dr Fleur Talbot, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Christa Stengel & Karen Webley

Dr Faisal Hassan, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Christa Stengel

Dr Georgina Wordsworth, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Secretary: Christa Stengel

Diabetes Specialist Nurse Team

Nikki Davies - Lead DSN

Julie Emsley

Ruth Godwin

Elisabeth Jones

Sarah Reynolds

Karen Jacobs

Julie Inker

Megan Powell

Kim Bees

Jonathan Baldwin

Tracey Hughes

Esme Kerton

Specialist Dietitians: Faye Cochrane

Endocrine Clinical Nurse Specialist: Beena Jose

Admin Team: Angie Cliffe and Ellis Barry

GMC Number: 4022426

Year of first qualification: 1993, University College and Middlesex Hospital, London

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interest: Bariatrics, Orthopaedics, CPEX

Secretary: Helen Pearce

Telephone: 0117 414 5114

Dr Mark Pyke trained for 11 years to become a consultant anaesthetist; beginning in the London area before moving to Bristol for 6 years. He passed his Fellowship examinations for the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1999 and enjoyed a couple of years in the sun whilst working and learning in Australia and New Zealand. Dr Mark Pyke has been a consultant anaesthetist at Southmead Hospital since 1994.

Dr Mark Pyke is also the Lead Bariatric Anaesthetist,  looking after patients requiring weight reduction surgery at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT), and has successfully anaesthetised over 600 patients for this type of surgery. He also specialises in ultrasound guided nerve blocks for pain relief after surgery.

Dr Mark Pyke is heavily involved in anaesthetic assessment clinics and runs clinics to assess patients’ fitness for major surgery by means of a cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPEX) machine.

GMC Number: 3487163

Year of first qualification: 1990, University of London

Specialty: General Surgery

Clinical interest: Coloproctology, cancer, colorectal stenting, patient safety

Secretary: Yvonne James

Telephone: 0117 414 0828

Miss Anne Pullyblank is a Consultant Colorectal surgeon appointed to North Bristol NHS Trust in 2003 and was Clinical Director for Surgery from 2010 to 2015. Anne has been involved in medical education as a Clinical Tutor and has an interest in patient safety.  She was chair of the Trust Clinical Risk Committee for 2 years.  Anne was part of the Safer Patient’s Initiative, working in the peri-operative work stream.  She then became faculty for the peri- operative workstream for the South West Safety collaborative.  Anne is now Clinical Director for Patient Safety Collaborative at West of England Academic Health Science Network. Anne was shortlisted for a Health and Social Care Award in 2009 for work on the surgical safety checklist, winner of a National Patient Safety Award in 2011 for work on nasogastric  tube safety, shortlisted for a NHS leadership award in 2012 and shortlisted in 2 categories for a national patient safety award in 2014 for work on reducing surgical site infection.

Anne is currently lead for lower gastrointestinal surgery and emergency surgery at North Bristol NHS Trust and is lead for the West of England Emergency Laparotomy collaborative.   In 2016, the Enhanced Recovery team won hospital team of the year at the Bristol Evening Post Awards. This year In 2017 Anne was shortlisted with a team for Cancer Team of the Year at the BMJ Awards for developing an electronic cancer referral system.
Anne performs open and laparoscopic bowel (keyhole) surgery and has an interest in bowel cancer, surgical infections, vacuum dressing for the open abdomen and emergency surgery.  She is involved in research and is principle investigator for surgical trials on stenting for colorectal cancer and clinical lead for a research study on surgical site infection

GMC Number: 3194704

Year of first qualification: 1988, University of London

Specialty: Gastroenterology

Clinical interest: Hepatology, ERCP, functional and inflammatory bowel disease

Secretary: Joanne Hartry

Telephone: 0117 414 6349

Dr Robert Przemioslo is a senior gastroenterologist with 20 years experience as a consultant. He is part of a liver group that runs a large diagnostic and therapeutic service with close links to the liver transplant services at Kings College Hospital and the Hepato-biliary group at UHB.

At Cossham Hospital, Dr Przemioslo runs a multidisciplinary gastroenterology clinic with interest in functional and inflammatory gastrointestinal disease supported by dieticians, psychology and clinical nurse specialists.

He is a pluripotent endoscopist with therapeutic interests in upper and lower GI scopes. He runs a tertiary hepatobiliary endoscopy service with particular interest in functional biliary pain and liaise closely with a specialist pain clinic for these patients.

Dr Przemioslo is also the research lead for gastroenterology.

Specialty: Neurosurgery

Secretary: Rose Hembery

Telephone: 0117 414 6707

Year of first qualification: 1990

Department: Trauma & Orthopaedics

Specialty: Knee surgery

Secretary: Jane Starr

Telephone: 0117 414 1609

Mr Andrew Porteous is the Lead Knee Surgeon for North Bristol NHS Trust. His practice is devoted exclusively to knee surgery and covers the Acute Knee Injury service and cartilage and ligament surgery for sportmen/women as well as treatments for early and advanced knee arthritis. These include osteotomy, partial knee replacement and total knee replacement.

A large proportion of his practice is complex referrals from other consultants, particularly for Revision knee replacements, for which he is recognised as a leading expert in the UK and Europe.

He is on the Executive of the British Assoc for Surgery of the Knee, and is a member the BOA, ESSKA, EKA, ICRS, ISAKOS and ISAKOS.

He is active in research and teaches and publishes regularly on a range of knee subjects.

GMC Number: 3442995

Year of first qualification: 1990, University of Bristol

Specialty: Respiratory Medicine

Clinical interest: Asthma, lung cancer, general respiratory medicine

Secretary: Tracey Ayshford

Telephone: 0117 414 2016

Email: Respiratoryadmin@nbt.nhs.uk

Dr Martin Plummeridge was appointed in 2001.

He is the Lead clinician for lung cancer at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT).

He is the Lead clinician for asthma and difficult asthma clinic.

He is the Chairman of NBT end of life care strategy group.

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Telephone: 0117 414 1585

GMC Number: 2925338

Year of first qualification: 1984, MBBS University of London

Specialty: Neonatal Medicine

Secretary: Julie Deady

Telephone number: 0117 4146815

Dr Alison Pike was first appointed Consultant Paediatrician at Gloucester Royal Hopsital in 2000 before moving to North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) as Consultant Neonatologist in 2003.

She is the Clinical lead for risk management.

Dr Pike has interests in medical education and is currently an LTFT training advisor.

Her research background is in neonatal neurophysiology. 

GMC Number: 4773650

Year of First Qualification: 1997, University of Calicut, Kerala, India

Department: Urology

Clinical Interest: Kidney stones, Ureter and Kidney Cancer

Secretary: Charlie Quick

Telephone: 0117 4145007

Mr Joe Philip has been a Consultant Urological Surgeon at Southmead Hospital Bristol since 2011.

He did his Urology Specialist training in Merseyside and completed an Endourology and Laparoscopy fellowship from Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

He was awarded MD by the University of Liverpool.

He sub-specialises in urinary stone disease including shock wave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy; percutaneous nephrolithotomy. He also undertakes laparoscopic surgery for ureteric and kidney cancers.

His research interests include the management, prevention and study of socio-geographic and economic factors in stone disease and the science of ureter and kidney cancer.