About Us
A dedicated team of consultant radiologists.
The Imaging Clinic at Circle Mount Alvernia Hospital is committed to ensuring that you always have the best diagnostic image-guided treatments. The facility has a large group of subspecialist consultant clinical radiologists; all doctors, fully registered with the General Medical Council and with many years of clinical experience.
We believe that, in the same way you would prefer to chose your Consultant Surgeon or Physician, you deserve the opportunity to choose your consultant radiologist who will oversee and report your imaging investigations and perform your image-guided treatments (see interventional radiology). Radiology is developing at a fantastic pace and increasingly the volume of data generated from a single study can exceed 1000 images. These need to be interpreted in the appropriate clinical context, using advanced software tools and a report produced presenting the salient imaging features in a manner that is most useful to your doctor to guide your care.
The Imaging Clinic at Circle Mount Alvernia Hospital is different from other radiology providers because we place the interpretation at the heart of the process. We have ALL major imaging modalities in Guildford (just down the A3 from London and the South).
Our Team
Dr Nick Ashford
Consultant Radiologist & Molecular Imaging Specialist
Dr James Crawshaw
Consultant Radiologist at The Royal Surrey County Hospital
Dr Chintu Gademsetty
Consultant in Diagnostic & Interventional Musculoskeletal (MSK) Imaging
Dr Fuad Hussain
Consultant in Diagnostic Radiology & Interventional Imaging
Dr Nick Ashford qualified from University College Hospital Medical School awarded MB BS in 1976, having achieved a First Class Honours BSc in Anatomy at University College London in 1973.
Following appointments in General Medicine at Oxford, and in Neurology The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases (London), he specialised in Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at Addenbrooke’s and Papworth Hospitals in Cambridge. Appointed as Consultant Radiologist to St Richards’s Hospital Chichester, he has led the department as Clinical Director and is ARSAC Licence Holder in Nuclear Medicine. His specialist areas are oncology. paediatrics, musculoskeletal & interventional radiology.
Dr Ashford holds National positions as specialist advisor to NICE as well as being a member of Nuclear Medicine committee of the British Institute of Radiology. He is a National accreditor and departmental auditor in Radiology. He was formerly a Faculty Board member at The Royal College of Radiologists and is past-Treasurer to the College.
As a Nuclear Medicine specialist, he chaired the South Thames Nuclear Medicine Group whilst reporting PET CT Nationally. His PET CT training been undertaken both in London and also at the Mem0rial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. He is co-author of “PET-CT in the UK” published by the Royal College of Radiologists. He is also the ARSAC licence holder for both Nuclear Medicine and PET CT at the developing Cancer centre of Excellence at BMI Mount Alvernia Hospital Guildford
I have been a Consultant Radiologist at The Royal Surrey Foundation Trust since 2007. After training at Imperial Medical School (92-97).
my initial experience was in Surgery obtaining Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh 2001. My Radiology training was in London together with an oncology imaging fellowship at The Royal Marsden Hospital (2001-2007).
I obtained a distinction in the Postgraduate College Certificate in Nuclear Medicine from King’s College, London 2007. I trained specifically in PET/CT, CT and MRI at The Royal Marsden and Royal Surrey County Hospitals. I am the lead local/regional radiologist for the melanoma, lymphoma, upper GI, GIST and CUP MDTs.
Prior hospital responsibilities include Radiology Clinical Director (8 years) and Clinical tutor for local trainees (2 years). I have taught and presented at national radiology and nuclear medicine conferences, together with journal publications and a book chapter. My special interests include oncology and Gastrointestinal imaging. I report PET/CT, CT and MRI studies at The Mount Alvernia.
Dr Chintu Gademsetty qualified from the university of Nottingham in 2004 with BMBS and BMedsci (Hons). He completed his basic surgical training through which he developed an interest in orthopedics and attained membership to the Royal College of Surgeons (England) in 2007. Following a year as an anatomy demonstrator and research fellow at Guys and St Thomas’ under Harold Ellis he secured a radiology training position at Barts’ Health.
After 3 years of general radiology training he spent a year in industry working for Norgine pharmaceuticals. He gained commercial experience with particular interest in medical marketing and health economic market access. He was integral in launching XIFAXANTA to the UK market and its submission to NICE.
As a senior registrar he gained hr FRCR in 2012 and went on to undertake musculoskeletal sub-specialty training at Bart’s Health. His experience afforded him expertise in orthopedic, rheumatology and sports imaging in performing therapeutic and diagnostic joint and spine injections. he was appointed as a Consultant Musculoskeletal radiologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in 2014 and supported the imaging for the Rugby World cup 2015.
Dr Fuad Hussain qualified from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School with an MB BS in 1994. During his time at Guy’s and St Thomas’ he achieved a First Class Honours BSc in Radiological Sciences and was awarded the Kyriacos Prize for being the most outstanding student in Radiological Sciences place first.
Already committed to a career in radiology, with an interest in image-guided therapies, he first undertook surgical training with accredited posts in neurosurgery, cardio thoracic, colorectal and orthopedic surgery at Kings College and St George’s Hospitals in London, attaining the fellowship of the Royal college of Surgeons of England 1996.
His radiological training was based at St George’s Hospitals in South London and this encompassed specialist attachments to the Royal Marsden Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Atkinson Morley Hospital and culminated with a two year period of specialisation in interventional radiology including a Fellowship at The Royal Surrey County Hospital and St Luke’s Cancer Centre.
Dr Hussain has been working at the Royal Surrey County Hospital since 2003, and was appointed to the Consultant staff when the vacancy arose in 2005. He is the lead radiologist for the Hepato-Pancreato-Billiary Cancer Regional and Gynecological Cancer Multi-disciplinary Teams.
His surgical background compliments his radiological interests. He is also the lead Radiologist for developing the Electronic Patient Record at Royal Surrey County Hospital and is skilled in all aspects of image processing and manipulation that is increasingly important in modern imaging.
He supports his colleague Dr Lopez in providing the specialist venous access service in West Surrey including the insertion of portacaths, PICC lines, Hickman & Groshong lines of which he has inserted many hundreds of such devices, safely and successfully. He also offers most other cancer interventions including specialist embolisation, stenting, biopsy and drainage procedures.
As a specialist in Interventional Radiology, he has a major interest in uterine artery embolisation for fibroids, both as a standalone procedure with the consultant gynecologists. He is a highly experienced practitioner in this procedure having performed several hundred such procedures.
Dr Declan Johnson
Consultant Diagnostic & Interventional Neuroradiologist
Prof Vineet Prakash
Consultant Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Physician
Dr Ayyaz Quddus
Consultant in Diagnostic Radiology & Interventional Imaging
Dr Manu Shastry
Consultant Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Physician, Royal Surrey County Hospital
Dr Declan Johnson was educated in Birmingham and obtained an honours degree in engineering before training medically at Birmingham university medical school. He obtained MBChB (Member of Royal College of Physicians) in 1993.
He was appointed specialist Registrar in Radiology at the Northwick Park and St Marks Hospital Trust training scheme in 1994 , gaining the FRCR (Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists) in 1997. By this time he had began subsequently training in Neuroradiology at the Royal Free Hospital, The National Hospital Queen Square and Great Ormond Street Hospital. This continued during a year long research post at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, a former specialist neuroscience center. and now affiliated with St. George’s Hospital Tooting. He was appointed as a consultant Neuroradiologist there in 2001.
He now also provides expert opinion in Neuroradiology at Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. Dr Johnson has written many specific scientific papers and presented work both nationally and internationally. His specialist interests are in all aspects of neurological imaging of the brain and spine as he is familiar with the latest techniques including vertebroplasty. He also performs cerebral and spinal interventional procedures particularly concerned with pain relief. Dr Johnson is able to provide routine and medico-legal second opinions on any imaging of the brain and spine.
Professor Prakash is a dual accredited Nuclear Medicine Physician and Radionuclide Radiologist active on the GMC register.
His clinical expertise include PET-CT for Oncology, Dementia and Cardiology.
He has set up the PSMA diagnostic PET-CT service for detection of recurrence in biochemical recurrent prostate cancer at the Mount Alvernia Hospital.
He is Clinical Lead of Nuclear Medicine at Royal Surrey NHS FT Hospital and an honorary Professor at University of Surrey.
At a national level, he is co-chair of the Scientific and Education committee of the British Nuclear Medicine Society.
Dr Ayyaz Quddus qualified from the University of Nottingham in 2014 with BMBS and BMedSci (Hons). He obtained Membership to the Royal College of Surgeons in 2016 before continuing his path to Radiology. He completed all of his radiology training at the Royal Free Hospital with experience at prestigious hospitals such as Queens Square, Great Ormond street & University College Hospital, and was awarded a dual CCT in diagnostic and interventional radiology in 2022.
He has been working as a consultant at Royal Surrey County Hospital since 2023 and has since concentrated his specialist interests in oncological diagnostic imaging, vascular & hepatobiliary and upper gastrointestinal imaging.
Dr Quddus leads the regional oesophagogastric multidisciplinary meeting (MDT) and supports the hepatobiliary MDT. He also has a keen interest in diffusion whole body MRI.
Dr Shastry is a dual accredited Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician and Radionuclide Radiologist.
He has professional expertise in all aspects of PET CT and Nuclear Medicine practice.
He completed Higher Specialist Nuclear Medicine Training at University College Hospital London. He has a MSc degree in Nuclear Medicine from Kings College London.
He obtained further specialist training in General and Radionuclide Radiology from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
His interest includes Oncology PET CT, Dementia imaging and Hybrid Nuclear Medicine imaging.
His NHS practice is at Royal Surrey NHS FT hospital Nuclear Medicine department.
Executive Support
Karen Lee
Accounts Manager
Karen Lee joined the practice in 2015 following her previous tenure as accounts manager for BMI Healthcare for 6 years.
She is responsible for administration including billing and booking (including interventional consultations and procedures).
She is very experienced, highly knowledgeable and fully supported by the consultants and hospitals, clinics and imaging centres that The Imaging Clinic works with
Catherine Oakley RGN
Practice Manager
Catherine trained as an oncology nurse at The Royal Marsden Hospital in the 1990s.
She joined The Imaging Clinic in 2003 as business development manager leading the introduction of CT, MRI & Nuclear Medicine scanning equipment between 2009-2012.
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