Meet the Team

Raymond Anakwe is an experienced Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic surgeon working in London. He is a hand, wrist and elbow specialist treating complex hand, wrist and elbow problems and has expertise in trauma and reconstruction of severely injured patients.

His work supports the Major Trauma Centre for North West London and he continues to serve as a military surgeon in the British Army. He has completed internationally recognised training fellowships to complete his training and remains current, publishing and presenting internationally.

He is lead for the hand and wrist virtual fracture clinic team where the focus is to work with patients in order to restore function and relieve symptoms whether through expert surgery or using non-surgical treatments using the skills and expertise of the whole multi-disciplinary team.

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Abhilash Jain was educated at Epsom College, UK, before training in medicine at the world famous Guy's and St.Thomas' Medical School, London. He graduated in 1995 (MB BS) and subsequently undertook his surgical training in London to become a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS) in 1998. After this he began training in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery in London teaching hospitals.

He then entered academic Plastic Surgery training and first undertook an MSc at University College London, for which he was awarded a Distinction and the Professor's Prize for best student. During this time he was also one of the first Plastic Surgeons ever to be awarded a prestigious ARC Clinical Research Fellowship to study for a three year PhD (the highest degree that can be earned). He undertook his PhD at Imperial College London and discovered the mechanism by which tendons are destroyed in rheumatoid arthritis. For this work he won many prestigious prizes and published numerous papers in world famous journals, including the Lancet. His work allowed him to make a significant improvement to the management of this condition.

Abhilash continued to train in Plastic, Reconstructive & Cosmetic Surgery at a number of premier plastic surgery units both in London and Sydney, Australia. After passing the Plastic Surgery Specialist Fellowship [FRCS (Plast)] in 2008, Abhilash was entered into the GMC Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery in 2009. Abhilash then undertook a number of prestigious fellowships including a congenital hand surgery fellowship at Great Ormond Street Hospital, a cosmetic surgery fellowship at the Wellington Hospital and he won a place to be the first Plastic Surgeon to undertake a Royal College of Surgeon approved Post-CCT microsurgery fellowship in lower limb reconstruction at Charing Cross Hospital.

Abhilash has a strong belief that in order to provide the best care for patients it is essential to be at the forefront of research and medical technology. He has both extensive clinical and academic training in Plastic Surgery and this was recognised when he was the first Plastic Surgeon to win a prestigious HEFCE Clinical Senior Lecturer-NHS award. This is a competition held amongst academic doctors from all specialities around the country; only a few have won this accolade.

Abhilash has published extensively on aspects of plastic and hand surgery and is involved in the teaching and training of medical students and surgeons. Abhilash runs an extensive research program and has presented work both nationally and internationally. He is currently a Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Imperial College London and undertakes all aspects of hand, lower limb reconstruction, general plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery.


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Mr Khaled Sarraf qualified from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School (King’s College London) and completed his basic surgical training at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. He then undertook his higher surgical training in trauma and orthopaedic surgery on the Imperial North West Thames rotation. Subsequently, Mr Sarraf received his fellowship surgical training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, London and St Michael’s Hospital (University of Toronto) in Canada as well as spending time at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto (SickKids).

Following his fellowships, Mr Sarraf was appointed as a consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Clinical Lead in paediatric orthopaedics and paediatric trauma. He has a special interest in all aspects of trauma, hip and knee conditions and sports injuries of all ages. He performs trauma surgery, adult hip and knee reconstructive surgery as well as minimally invasive and arthroscopic surgery.

Mr Sarraf was a lead in education during his higher training and continues to be active in surgical education as an honorary senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College London. He has authored a book, multiple book chapters and published over 30 research papers in the field of orthopaedics and presented his research in national and international conferences.

Mr Simmons has been a Consultant at Imperial since 2010 and has helped develop the hand and lower limb service on the St Marys site. His clinical interest is in upper and lower limb reconstruction and elective hand surgery. He has regular clinics on the St Marys and Charing Cross Hospital sites. He is the Head of Specialty for Plastic Surgery at Imperial NHS Trust.

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Pooja has a BSc (Hons) in Product Design and over 7 years’ experience in Primary Health Care at various health centres around London. She is passionate in improving service development and quality improvement projects using innovative design and challenging ideas while the main focus being patient satisfaction. Away from her work environment, Pooja volunteers as a radio presenter at Radio Brockley and is an aspiring guitarist.

As Part of Pooja’s role at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, she is working on a CLAHRC NWL funded project, which is to overcome the challenges faced within Fracture Clinic. The project will be implemented to provide time critical treatment for hand and wrist fractures in a manner that optimises ICHT resources, as well as patient time whilst minimising complications and dissatisfaction. The project has been developed to increase patient and staff confidence in the quality of care for patients with hand and wrist fractures at ICHT: the Virtual Fracture Clinic.

My name is Sharika Ali. I am a Clinical Support Worker at St Marys Hospital within the Trauma and Orthopaedic department. I book all Hand & Wrist appointments for patients and send text messages/letters or make phone calls regarding appointment dates and times. I contact patients if appointments have been cancelled or rescheduled and answer Hand & Wrist appointment related queries via phone/email.

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Wendy joined the CLAHRC NWL team following extensive experience as a perioperative nurse in both the NHS and Private sector, during which time she worked clinically in the area of plastic, craniofacial and burns surgery. She has been a Theatre Matron, responsible for the perioperative team and surgical activity including involvement in 'The Productive Operating Theatre' programme, developed by the NHS Institute of Innovation and Improvement. This project focussed on collaborative change and team working including identification and management of 'Human Factors' and formalised her interest in improvement leading to her enrolment onto the CLAHRC NWL's Improvement Science MSc programme. Wendy is trained in Lean Management techniques and is keen to critically analyse this methodology in comparison to the CLAHRC NWL approach.

Doug is a surgical trainee on the North West London Core surgical training programme. He worked at St Mary’s Hospital in the department of orthopaedics before taking up his training post and it was his audit work and persistence that encouraged the department to first pilot the virtual fracture clinic model.

John is a higher specialty trainee in trauma and orthopaedic surgery in North West London. He has served as the training representative for this project. He has an interest in clinical research particularly around patient outcomes and has a strong track record developing flexibility and innovative roles within the multidisciplinary team.

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Scott Middleton is a Trauma and Orthopaedic registrar at the Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit and a Surgical Education Fellow at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London. He is widely published in the Orthopaedic literature with over 20 publications and he reviews articles for the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). He is the Director of Medical Publishing for EduSurg, creating 'passthemrcs.co.uk', a highly successful website aimed at trainees about to sit the MRCS part B, which has over 3000 users. Mr Middleton co-authored a chapter on 'Assessment of the Multiply Injured Patient' in the newly published Oxford Textbook of the Fundamentals of Surgery and has a special interest in trauma surgery both clinically and academically. Mr Middleton is also a Quality Improvement Trainee Associate at NHS Education for Scotland, as well as a Clinical Tutor Associate at the University of Edinburgh.

Fatai Ogunlayi is a QualityImprovement Lead and Senior Strategic Investment Programme Manager atImperial College NHS Trust.

Alan provides support on use and interpretation of data.  Alan is an internationally published and presenting author on measuring for improvement, with a background in Ecology and research.