GMC Number: 4327262

Year of first qualification: 1996, University of Edinburgh

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interest: Neurosurgical Anaesthesia

Telephone: 0117 414 5114

GMC Number: 3185148

Year of first qualification: 1985, Spain

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interest: Intensive Care Medicine

Telephone: 0117 414 0870

Dr Deborah Harris trained in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in the Trent and South West regions, followed by a year in France.

She has a keen interest in teaching and is a bilingual examiner for the European Diploma in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.

Year of first qualification: 1985

Specialty: Trauma & Orthopaedics

Clinical interest: Lower limb arthroplasty sports injury knee, foot and ankle

Secretary: Sue Jones

Telephone: 0117 414 1626

Mr William Harries has been a Consultant in trauma and Orthopaedics at North Bristol NHS Trust since 1997.

He has specialist interest in lower limb, particularly knee, foot & ankle.

He has in the past been Clinical Director of the musculoskeletal directorate.

He is President of BOFAS, the BOFAs liaison with NICE and the BOFAS representative on the CCGs writing care pathways.

He is also a member of the BOA & BASK and a member of the Scientific Committee (Chair for last three years).

GMC Number: 2855075

Year of first qualification: 1984

Specialty: Renal

Secretary: Sue Emery

Telephone: 0117 414 7699

GMC Number: 4119742

Year of first qualification: 1991, University of Oxford

Specialty: Trauma & Orthopaedics

Clinical interest: Spinal surgery, deformity, tumours, fractures, degenerative (cervical, thoracic and lumbar)

Secretary: Karen Procter

Telephone: 0117 414 1618

Having qualified at Oxford University with a first class degree, Mr Ian Harding continued his basic Orthopaedic Training in Oxford before undertaking Spinal Surgery fellowships at the Institut Calot in France and Seattle, USA before taking up his Consultant post in Bristol.

GMC Number: 4406459

Year & location of first qualification of first qualification: 1997, University of Bristol

Specialty: Rheumatology 

Clinical interest: Autoimmune connective tissue disease, vascultis, Myositis, Interstitial lung disease, Systmic sclerosis.

Secretary: Pamela Stone (Southmead), Caroline Reed (Cossham)

Dr Harsha Gunawardena is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at North Bristol NHS Trust and the University of Bristol. He was department clinical lead for four years and was appointed to Divisional Clinical Director for the Neurosciences and Musculoskeletal sciences Division in 2022. 

He has led the North Bristol Connective Tissue Disease (CTD) and Vasculitis service since 2009 and provides a tertiary regional service for the southwest with a particular interest and expertise in inflammatory muscle diseases, CTD-lung disease and vasculitis. 

He is an integral member of the Bristol-Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) service that runs regional multi-disciplinary team evaluation and combined clinic with the respiratory ILD team. He has a clinical and academic interest in all aspects of CTD and vasculitis, in particular myositis and ILD. His PhD was on the identification of novel autoantibody markers in myositis syndromes including ILD phenotypes and this work with the University of Bath research group was the first to describe several novel autoantibody markers. He has published widely on myositis overlap syndromes, autoantibodies, CTD-ILD, management reviews and guidelines. 

He is a lead member of UK Myositis network and the British Society of Rheumatology Myositis Guidelines Group. He was British Society of Rheumatology Heberden committee member (2019 – 2023), which is responsible for organising the BSR annual conference and he co-convened and chaired the plenary Essentials sessions over several years. He is a former scientific advisor to the UK Juvenile Dermatomyositis Research Group.

GMC Number: 3252178

Year of first qualification: 1987, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interest: General anaesthesia and post-operative care in the areas of general surgery, major urology, major gynaecology, orthopaedics, ENT and obstetrics

Telephone: 0117 414 0973

Dr Nia Griffith trained in anaesthetics at Oxford and Bristol, obtaining her Fellowship in 1993, and was appointed to Southmead Hospital Bristol in April 1999.

She has spent some of her time working in France (both Lyon and Toulouse) and is a fluent French speaker.

She has a special interest in developing the highest standards of day surgery which involves thorough pre-operative assessment together with effective control of any post-operative problems such as discomfort or nausea. 

Dr Nia Griffith is very experienced in the use of ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia for pain relief following major surgery on the arms and legs.

GMC Number: 3058460

Year of first qualification: 1985, University of Bristol

Specialty: Obstetrics & Fetal Medicine

Clinical interest: Fetal Medicine & High Risk Obstetrics

Secretary: Joanne Jury

Telephone: 0117 414 6751

Dr. Simon Grant trained in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in the South-West of England & in Auckland, before research in Southampton & then training in Maternal & Fetal Medicine at Birmingham Women's Hospital.

He was a Consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Royal Cornwall Hospital as Labour Ward/Maternal Medicine lead from 2000, before moving to Southmead Hospital Bristol in 2005, as lead for Fetal Medicine & Obstetric Ultrasound. He also has a major interest in obstetric emergency training.

GMC Number: 3337268

Year of first qualification: Biochemistry Bath University 1981, Biochemistry PhD UMIST 1988, MBBS Newcastle upon Tyne 1990, FRCP RCP  2015

Specialty: Neuro-rehabilitation

Clinical interests: Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Spasticity

Secretary: Chelsie

Telephone: 0117 956 2697

GMC number: 5190062

Year of first qualification: 1986

Specialty: Breast Surgery

Clinical interests: Diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, including surgery for breast cancer and reconstructive surgery.

Secretary: Louise Oleary

Telephone: 0117 414 7020

Miss Sasirekha Govindarajulu has worked in the breast unit at Southmead Hospital Bristol for the past 12 years and maintained the highest possible standard of care for patients, always seeking to improve the experience of patients.

With continuing interest in research, publications and lecture tours maintained high standards of care for patients: Faculty of the national ultrasound course, Faculty of the National vacuum assisted mammotome training course, National peer review panel, Faculty National Survivorship Programme Patient User and information lead for ASWCS network.

As an Audit lead of the breast unit, Miss Govindarajulu is always passionate about standards and excellence of care.

Her clinical interests are diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, including surgery for breast cancer and reconstructive surgery, sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer assessment, diagnosis and management of all benign problems including breast pain. Miss Govindarajulu is also experienced in performing diagnostic breast and axillary ultrasound, diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound guided interventional procedures, ultrasound guided minimally invasive procedures for therapeutic excision of benign lumps using vacuum assisted procedure and radio frequency ablation, and localising small lesions with ultrasound. 

Her clinical interests also include lattismus dorsi breast reconstruction, all implant based reconstructions including use of acellular dermal matrix, breast reduction and augmentation, and symmetrisation procedures and other onco-plastic procedures.