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.

GMC Number: 3124671

Year of first qualification: 1986, St. Mary's  Hospital, London

Specialty: Immunology

Clinical interest: Allergy, Immunodeficiency and HIV

Secretary: Helen Harris (Immunology and Allergy) telephone: 0117 414 8392
Danielle Coombs (HIV) telephone: 0117 414 6394
Sharon Hemming (HIV) telephone: 0117 414 6395

Dr Mark Gompels studied for his MD in Immunodeficiency of HIV in London. 

He then undertook further training to gain his Allergy and Immunology qualifications and MRCPath. 

He is Clinical Lead for Allergy, Immunology and HIV services and also runs a research program to allow patients access to new treatments.

He has >75 peer reviewed publications.

GMC Number: 4497020

Year of first qualification: 1990, University of Delhi

Specialty: Radiology and Clinical Imaging

Clinical interest: Gastroenterology, Haematology and Cancer imaging. Teaching and training of doctors, nurses and radiographers.

Secretary: Caroline Hawkins

Telephone: 0117 414 9009

Professor Sanjay Gandhi is a senior consultant radiologist at North Bristol NHS Trust. He has 30 years of clinical experience and received several national and international academic excellence awards.

He is NBT Lead Clinician for Radiation Protection and Lead Radiologist for Haematology Cancer MDT. He has been involved with several Quality Improvement and Safeguarding projects.

Dr. Gandhi holds three Postgraduate Radiology degrees. He has been training specialist registrars, nurse practitioners, ultrasonographers. He has taught trainees at the University of Bristol and the University of West of England for nearly two decades. As Visiting Honorary Professor he also teaches at Commonwealth Universities.

Professor Gandhi has co-authored and edited 8 international medical textbooks, all of which have received excellent reviews. In 2003 he received prestigious British Medical Association (BMA) Highly Commended Author and Editor Award.

Professor Gandhi has been involved in numerous research projects and collaborative trials. He has regularly published articles and research papers in major journals such as the British Journal of Radiology (BJR), British Journal of Hospital Medicine (BJHM) and British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Professor Gandhi is an Editorial Board Member of four peer-reviewed medical Journals and written editorials on the use high-tech medicine and TeleHealth.

He has been a frequently invited speaker and moderator at high profile medical conferences. Professor Sanjay Gandhi has written many research papers and Editorials on the use of cutting edge technology to improve patient care.

In addition, he has organised several international conferences on Efficiency savings and Healthcare Innovations. Professor Gandhi is an internationally recognized leader in Healthcare-IT and self-assessment tools and smart teaching Apps.

GMC Number: 3589151

Year of first qualification: 1992, Guy’s Medical School, London

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interest: Major urological and robotic surgery, gynaecological, endocrine and bariatric surgery

Telephone: 0117 414 0865

Dr Claire Fouque trained at the Bristol School of Anaesthesia and worked for two years in Australia where she studied general and intensive care medicine.

She was appointed to her consultant post at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) in 2002.

Sarcomas are a rare group of cancers which should therefore be treated by a specialist team experienced in their management.

Sarcomas arise in connective tissue such as

• Muscle.
• Fat.
• Bone.

The Bristol Sarcoma Service (BSS) manages sarcomas for Bristol and the surrounding region including:

• Bath.
• Weston.
• Yeovil.
• Taunton.

Other south west regional services are currently located in Exeter and Plymouth.

The BSS is based across both North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW). The BSS predominately investigates and treats soft tissue sarcomas.

There is a weekly MDM (Multi-disciplinary team meeting) on Tuesday morning between 08:30am – 10:00am at Southmead Hospital Bristol, where each patient case is discussed by specialist:

• Radiologists.
• Pathologists.
• Surgeons.
• Oncologists.
• Clinical Nurse Specialists.

Please see the Sarcoma Core Team page for more details on our multi-disciplinary team.

After the MDM, the team attends a sarcoma clinic from 10:00am – 12:30am. During your clinic appointment you will meet with one of the consultant plastic surgeons to discuss your case. You may also meet the sarcoma clinical nurse specialists, oncologists or the specialist physiotherapist. If you are having a biopsy taken, you will meet one of the consultant radiologists during this appointment. 

Primary bone sarcomas are investigated and treated by our colleagues in Oxford. The oncologists attend the weekly Oxford MDM via video-link on Monday mornings to discuss primary bone sarcomas. One of the Oxford surgeons visits a joint clinic at Southmead Hospital once a month. One of the Oxford surgeons visits a joint clinic in Bristol once a month.

Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Plastic surgical services and retroperitoneal surgical services are performed at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. 

Oncological services, including radiotherapy and chemotherapy, are located at the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre (BHOC). 

Other surgery such thoracic surgery is performed at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.

Gynaecological sarcomas are managed by the team at St Michael’s Hospital. 

GMC Number: 6057536

Year of first qualification: 2002, Imperial College London

Specialty: Neurology

Clinical interest: Epilepsy

Secretary: Eileen Jones

Telephone: 0117 414 6687

Dr Faulkner completed his BSc, PhD and MBBS at Imperial College, London before moving to Bristol for his Medical and General Neurology training. He then completed an Epilepsy and EEG Fellowship in Sydney, Australia. 

He was appointed as a consultant Neurologist with a specialist interest in Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery at North Bristol NHS Trust in 2011.

Dr Faulkner provides a full range of epilepsy services from first seizure clinics through to epilepsy surgery workup, including intracranial EEG recording techniques.

GMC Number: 3305162

Specialty: Cardiology

Telephone: 0117 414 6369

GMC Number: 3322297

Year of first qualification: 1989, University of Oxford

Specialty: Neonatal Medicine

Clinical interest: Neonatal Neurology, Cardiology, Medical Education

Secretary: Julie Deady

Telephone: 0117 414 6948

GMC Number: 4727075

Year of first qualification: 2000, Imperial College, University of London

Specialty: Radiology

Clinical interest: Cardiothoracic Imaging

Secretary: Claire Nurse

Telephone: 0117 414 9012

GMC Number: 3591583

Year of first qualification: 1992, University of Sheffield

Specialty: Trauma & Orthopaedics

Clinical interest: Arthroscopic, Replacement and Revision Hip Surgery Clinical interests: Soft tissue and Young adult hip disease, Revision arthroplasty.

Secretary: Nicola Leigh

Telephone: 0117 414 1621

Mr Stephen Eastaugh-Waring is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, British Hip Society, Association for the Study of Medical Education & Royal Society of Medicine.

As an ex GB triathlete, he empathises and understands the desire to return to as full an activity profile as possible, and aims to achieve this for all his patients.

Mr Stephen Eastaugh-Waring has excellent results on the National Joint Registry, and is regularly one of the most productive hip surgeons in the country.