John Hobbs sclerotherapy session

Specialist in Vascular Medicine, Past-President of the French Society of Phlebology, Treasurer of the Multidisciplinary Joint Committee of Phlebology and of the European Board of Phlebology for the UEMS (European Union of Medical Specialists), Claudine Hamel-Desnos has been practising ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy and endovenous thermal ablations for many years, methods for which she has been particularly involved in clinical research, international publications and training.

Zola Mzimba is a Graduate of Birmingham University and completed his basic and higher surgical training in the West Midlands. His out of region experience includes a years Trauma Surgery in South Africa and a year in the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast’s Vascular Unit. He has been a Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon in Northern Ireland since 2006. He is based in Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry on the West of Northern Ireland but is also a Visiting Surgeon to Letterkenny Hospital in the Republic of Ireland. Zola Mzimba relinquished his arterial practice post reconfiguration and centralisation of arterial services and now specialises in access and venous interventions. He is currently the Clinical Chair for the varicose vein dedicated elective care centres Northern Ireland, a project that has led to centralisation of assessment and delivery of superficial venous interventions. Zola Mzimba is an advocate of venous duplex and holds the Registered Phlebology Sonographers credential (RPhS), he is an active member of the Society of Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) and an associate member of the Society of Vascular Technology Great Britain and Ireland (SVTGI). Zola Mzimba is also a Board Member of the British Association of Sclerotherapists.

• Medical Education Marburg, 1999 (Germany)
• Internal Medicine, 2006, Bern (Switzerland)
• Angiology, 2008, Bern
• Vena Docendi, 2013, Bern
• Senior Consultant 2009
• Parts of education in France, Great Britain and Italy
• Numerous PubMed listed publications

Huw trained at Imperial College London Medical School, before starting his training in London and the South West. He then  completed his higher surgical training in vascular and endovascular surgery in the West Midlands, where he developed a keen research interest. 

Huw’s research interests include superficial venous disease, NICE guidelines and ultrasound guided foam sclerotherapy