Doctoring the TARDIS part 2 - The Doctor versus the bugs: An update on aspects of infectious disease and rheumatology

Dr Dean Creer is a South African, a Capetonian and a University of Cape Town Graduate (1991). He has been based in London for almost 30 years and completed specialist training in North London, taking up an NHS consultant post as a Respiratory and General Physician at Barnet Hospital in 2004, which is now part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He has a long standing interest in respiratory infections with a particular interest in tuberculosis.

Dr Doug Fink is an infectious diseases specialist working at the Royal Free hospital, London. He studied medicine at University College London and completed his PhD in molecular virology at the towers lab at University College London funded by a Wellcome Clinical Research Training Fellowship. He is currently an National Institute for Health and Care Research Clinical Lecturer based between the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London. He holds early career research awards from the Academy of Medical Sciences and International Antiviral Society for his work investigating molecular mechanisms of innate immune determinants of anti-viral immunity. He founded the research collaboration between the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Cambridge University and University College London, and continues to work on capacity-building research between those centres. He is chair of the British HIV Association international partnership working group and was part of the most recent British HIV Association HIV treatment guidelines committee. He is a faculty member for both the London Diploma of Tropical medicine and East Africa Diploma of Tropical Medicine.

Mr Chethan Jayadev is a Consultant Knee Surgeon practicing at the renowned Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore.

Mr Jayadev read medicine at Oxford University (Magdalen College) and gained higher surgical training in trauma and orthopaedics on the Royal London Hospital Programme. He returned to Oxford University to undertake a DPhil (PhD), focussing on the biology of knee osteoarthritis. After his training, Chethan completed a 1-year hip and knee fellowship at Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland, Australia. On returning to the UK, he undertook two further specialist knee surgery fellowships at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. 

Mr Jayadev’s practice encompasses all aspects of knee surgery, from sports injuries and knee preservation to complex and revision joint replacements.