The Croydon Medical Society

Christian Kinmont is the senior specialist knee surgeon at Croydon University Hospital following his Consultant appointment in 2004 to join and ultimately replace Mr Mowbray, a long-standing CMS member.

He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and attended St George’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1989. His specialist Trauma and Orthopaedic training was in the South West Thames region, with additional clinical research Fellowships undertaken at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and La Trobe University, Melbourne.

His practice encompasses both soft tissue and joint replacement surgery. In addition to an active role in general orthopaedic trauma surgery, he provides a specialist knee trauma service. He is very actively involved in the training of Specialist Registrars within the orthopaedic department.

His wife is a Speciality Doctor in palliative care based at a local Hospice. In his spare time, he remains a very keen life long road cyclist, competing in time trials and cyclosportives abroad, but his two teenage mountain biking sons have been tempting him off road lately.

I am the eldest of 3 brothers and 2 half-brothers. My late father was a pioneering consultant radiotherapist at the Royal Marsden Hospital and my late mother nursed King George VI in his final illness. I was privileged to be educated at Sevenoaks School when I first developed my love of performing music and drama which was further nurtured in my medical training at Westminster Medical School. After Professorial Medical and Surgical house jobs, I embarked on a career in Obstetrics and Gynaecology including a 4-year rotation in the Northeast of England from which I emerged as a registrar with the MRCOG qualification. After 3 more years as a registrar, including a year at Croydon University Hospital and working as a research registrar in IVF, I found myself "stuck" and increasingly estranged from my long-suffering wife Jo and our 4 children. So, I made the decision to become a GP, after a long meeting with the former "Giant" of Croydon General Practice, the late Dr Clifford Floyd.

I was amazed at how little I had understood the GP's role when I was working as a hospital doctor and found the 2 years of further training challenging and rewarding. There then followed 27 years working as a GP Principal in a small friendly family Practice in Shirley with a fantastic loyal Practice team and patient base with little staff or patient turnover.

During this time, I also worked one session a week in the colposcopy clinic at CUH for over 20 years mainly with the late Mr Peter Clarkson who was a special friend and inspiration. The fact that I was physically present at the hospital every week enabled a particularly helpful working relationship with the hospital consultants that made difficult problems easier to resolve by personal discussion.

I also worked for over 15 years as the New Addington Family Planning Clinic Doctor with a wonderful team.

I retired in 2015 in the face of my ideal of the "small friendly family Practice" being no longer sustainable, with the direction of travel of Primary Care being expected to deliver more and more with fewer resources, including ticking all the boxes and controlling expenditure. To be honest I was "burnt out" with 12-hour days and regular 6–12-hour weekends "catch up" being the norm for the last 2 years.

Retirement has been a revelation enabling me to travel, enjoy 6 grandchildren aged 2-9 years, regularly walk, play bridge and play all manner of brass instruments- mainly tuba (bought for me by my patients when I retired), the French horn and trombone. I regularly play with 4 concert wind bands and "dep" for several more. I also play in several orchestras including tuba in " The Doctors Orchestra" who do an annual big charity concert at Cadogan Hall.

I qualified at Nottingham University before returning to Croydon, completing my GP training at Mayday and then joining a practice in Woodside Health Centre - where I remain as one of the partners. I lead the training at the practice, teaching a training various trainees - medical, nursing, and physician assistants to name a few!

I am also a Guide and Rainbow Guide leader and help lead the Duke of Edinburgh Award at Royal Russell School.

Nick is a retired GP and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. He is a Trustee and Editor of the Medical Society of London Transactions and a past President. In 2017 he was the Dr T J (Jock) Murray Visiting Scholar in Medical Humanities at Dalhousie University, Canada and gave a lecture to Gresham College, London. He is Chairman of the Erasmus Darwin Foundation, the William Shipley Group for RSA History, the Charles Bell Group, Chairman of The Middlesex Hospital Celebrations and Vice President of the Johnson Society of London. He is a past President of the Croydon Medical Society, the Hunterian Society and the History of Medicine Section at the Royal Society of Medicine.

Dr Khalid Khan has been a Principal in General Practice at the Parkside Group Practice in South Croydon since 1997.

He is a GP trainer, tutor for King's College London School of Medicine and a former community pharmacist. He is former Board member of the South Croydon Primary Care Group(PCG) and of the South London Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP.)

Dr Khan is Fellow of the RCGP; Fellow and Steering Committee Member for the Chinese Medical Institute and Register (C.M.I.R.), a Licensed NLP Trainer and author of Mnemonics & Study Tips for Medical Students (CRC Press). He is current Quizmeister of the Croydon Medical Society.

I qualified from Cambridge University and the Middlesex Hospital in 1985 and currently still work as a consultant gastroenterologist at Croydon University Hospital. Exploration and the new are my great loves and administration my great hate.

I was a member of the Cambridge Travellers and Explorers Club and organized an expedition to Zanskar in the Indian Himalayas in 1981. I was the first to discover an old unused route across the Himalayas, providing the Indian ministry of Tourism with the first description of the route. I have been to the central Congo, have crossed the Sahara, climbed the Hoggar mountains, and visited Mongolia and Tibet more recently.

In medicine, I have had an active research career crossing many different disciplines. I was the first to prove that Helicobacter pylori was mainly acquired in childhood with little on the way of acquisition in adulthood, the first to show that most cardiovascular risk factors were the result of chronic inflammation, the first to show that bowel inflammation is affected by exercise, fibre intake and obesity which are all risk factors for colorectal cancer, and the first to show that counterintuitively obesity is risk factor for the development of Crohn’s disease. Enthusiasm for the novel led me down one blind alley, being the first to propose that Helicobacter pylori infection is a risk factor for coronary heart disease. The association turned out to be the result of residual confounding but nevertheless it was the forerunner of the contemporary interest in the role of gut flora in the pathogenesis of coronary heart disease.

Born and bred in Croydon, Louise returned to her roots in 2014 after qualifying from Imperial College and completing foundation training in North-West London.

She dabbled in a career in hospital medicine with the MRCP, but soon found her true calling as a GP and has been working in a salaried post at Greenside and Lennard Road practices in West Croydon since 2017.

Louise enjoys speaking French and worked with GPs in the Loire region as part of an Erasmus exchange programme during her training. She is an avid musician; she plays the bassoon, piano and, more recently, percussion with her 1 year old son!

Abdul Sultan is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with a special interest in urogynaecology. He has been based at Croydon University Hospital since August 1996.

Agnelo Fernandes was born in Goa, went to school in Wandsworth, South London and attended King’s College, London and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. His interests include minor surgery, dermatology, teaching and quality improvement of health services through innovation and transformation. A GP at Parchmore Medical Centre in Thornton Heath, Croydon for 30 years he is also a GP Trainer, member of the South London RCGP Faculty (8yrs) and a Governor at Royal Russell School, Croydon (16yrs). He was previously an Educational Supervisor of GP Trainees out of hours (20 yrs) having initially set up the scheme, a GP appraiser (15yrs), a member of the Croydon Local Medical Committee (2002-2017).

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