Dr Sunil Dolwani

MB, BS. MD. MRCP
Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist

Dr Sunil Dolwani is a private Consultant Gastroenterologist who runs private Gastroenterology clinics in south Wales from Vale Healthcare's private healthcare facility - the Cardiff Bay Clinic. The Cardiff Bay Clinic has a state of the art day care endoscopy unit where Dr Dolwani provides Gastroenterolgical investigations. 

General Gastroenterology

Dr. Dolwani has clinics in Gastroenterology at both the University Hospital of Wales and University Hospital Llandough in Cardiff, South Wales Patients seen in these clinics include those with abdominal pain, heartburn, indigestion or dyspepsia like symptoms, diarrhoea, anaemia, inflammatory bowel disease (Ulcerative colitis & Crohn’s) jaundice and other gastroenterological complaints.

Endoscopy

Dr. Dolwani has special interests and expertise in new modalities of image enhanced endoscopy and colonoscopy including Narrow Band Imaging and Contrast enhanced endoscopy. He has trained in Japan at the National Cancer Centre Hospital in Tokyo in removal of complex bowel polyps and early gastrointestinal cancers through the endoscope and colonoscope (Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection). He is the lead facilitator for the Welsh Endoscopy Training Network at University Hospital Llandough, South Wales and teaches on numerous advanced Endoscopy & Colonoscopy courses for consultants and Trainees in England & Wales.

Bowel Cancer Screening

Dr. Dolwani is the Clinical Lead Screening Colonoscopist for the Bowel Screening Program Wales in Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust. He is also one of the Assessors for accreditation and assessment of Consultants in the Bowel Screening Program in Wales.

Familial Bowel Cancer & Colonic Polyposis

Dr. Dolwani has clinical and Research interests in families/ individuals with familial forms of bowel cancer and bowel polyps. Currently he co-ordinates and is the Principal Investigator for a large multicenter study looking into individuals with multiple colonic polyps in collaboration with the dept of Genetics.

Research & Training

Current research studies include those on surveillance of cases with familial bowel cancer, new techniques in identification and assessment of complex polyps and early gastrointestinal cancers and genetic basis of bowel polyps and cancer. Training involvement in Bowel Cancer Screening, Gastroenterology Trainees and training in advanced endoscopic techniques.

Mr Timothy J Havard

MD. FRCS. FRCS (Gen)
Consultant General & Upper Gastro-Intestinal Surgeon

Tim Havard is a private Consultant General Surgeon at Vale Healthcare - the leading private clinics and private hospital in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. Tim specialises in the assessment and management of Upper GI conditions.

Tim Havard has been a Consultant General Surgeon in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in South Wales since 1999. Born in Cardiff into a very medical family (father, mother, grandfather and uncle) he displayed a lamentable lack of imagination in becoming the third generation to train at the Welsh National School of Medicine, qualifying in 1988. His postgraduate surgical training was completed in South Wales and Southampton. In 1999 he obtained an MD after a period of research into the bacteria Helicobacter Pylori.

General Surgery

Since his appointment he has developed a busy practice in emergency and elective General Surgery. This has included the investigation of abdominal pain, dyspepsia (indigestion) and rectal bleeding. This involves regular sessions in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. He routinely performs the surgical treatment of a wide range of elective conditions including gallstones, groin and abdominal hernias, haemorrhoids and benign and malignant skin lesions.

Upper Gastro-Intestinal Surgery

Within the broad remit of General Surgery Tim has particular expertise in cancer of the oesophagus and stomach cancer having treated over 630 patients with the condition. Of these 45% of the patients came from within the catchment area of the Royal Glamorgan and 55% of the cases were referred from elsewhere. This disease remains particularly challenging to treat and is the only common cancer that is currently increasing in incidence.

Laparoscopic Surgery

A further particular interest is the treatment of benign Upper GI conditions such as gallstones and reflux (heartburn) by laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery. Gallstones are a particularly frequent cause of abdominal pain and Tim does approximately 100 Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (removal of the gallbladder) operations per year.

Tim is committed to undergraduate and postgraduate training. He is an Honorary Clinical Tutor in the University of Cardiff Medical School and Regional Co-ordinator for Higher Surgical Training in South East Wales. He sits on the all Wales steering group for Upper GI cancer and has been the Honorary Secretary of the Welsh Surgical Society since 2004.

Mr Ashraf Rasheed

Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon - General Surgery & Upper GI Surgery
MB ChB FRCS (Gen Surg)

Mr Ashraf Rasheed is an Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon, specialising in General and Upper GI Surgery practising at Vale Healthcare, near Cardiff - South Wales' leading private Clinic and Private Hospital.

After graduating from Dublin in 1992, Ashraf was awarded Lyon’s Medal and McDonnell’s prize for proficiency in surgery. He completed his higher surgical training in Wales and was awarded CCST in General and Upper GI Surgery in 2003.

Ashraf undertook international fellowships in advanced laparoscopic and upper gastrointestinal cancer surgery.

Appointed Consultant Surgeon to West Dorset Foundation Trust in 2004 before moving to the current position of lead for Laparoscopic Upper GI surgery at the Gwent Healthcare.

Ashraf has a special interests in advanced laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery and performs Laparoscopic Anti-Reflux (Acid Reflux) Surgery, Laparoscopic Bariatric (Anti-Obesity/Weight Losing) Surgery, Laparoscopic Biliary (Gallstones) and Pancreatic (Pancreatitis) Surgery, Laparoscopic Spleen Surgery, Laparoscopic Ventral, Incisional and Inguinal Hernia Surgery. He is an expert at oesophago-gastric and biliary endoscopy.

Ashraf wrote the Gwent operational policy for UGI cancer management, reviewed the benign upper GI / biliary services and developed management pathways for upper GI diseases.

ALSW is committed to the provision of a patient’s focused specialist services.

Ashraf holds current memberships with the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ALS), the Society of Surgeons of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), and the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP).