Endocrinology for patients with conditions caused by hormonal problems at Epsom and St Helier hospitals

Endocrinology (hormones)

The Endocrinology Department provides a comprehensive specialist service for patients with conditions caused by hormonal problems, with inpatient reviews and outpatient consultations, both at St Helier and Epsom hospitals.

Inpatient reviews provide specialist input to all the endocrine urgent conditions or patients who are diagnosed with the new endocrine problems.

The specialist outpatient clinics are split into Endocrine clinics and Thyroid clinics at both sites, where we provide care to a wide range of endocrine and metabolic disorders, including:

Thyroid
Parathyroid
Adrenal
Pituitary
Gonads including Polycystic ovary syndrome, Hirsutism, Virilisation, Hypogonadism
Endocrine Hypertension
Pancreatic Hypoglycaemia
Genetic Endocrine Conditions.

We carry out a full range of dynamic and other complex investigations on a day-case or outpatient basis at a dedicated Medical Investigation Unit MIU at St Helier Hospital, which is supported by our Chemical Pathology and Immunology services. There is a monthly departmental meeting to discuss the complex investigation results with the chemical pathologists.

We also have access to the modern imaging techniques including ultrasound, CT, MRI and nuclear medicine imaging. All the complex cases are discussed in our weekly Multidisciplinary meetings with the specialist Radiologists and the Endocrine Surgeon.

We also work closely with the department of neurosurgery at St George's Hospital and Nuclear Medicine Department at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Key staff

Dr Imran Malik – Clinical Lead, Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinologist, Epsom & St Helier Hospital
Dr Steve Hyer – Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinologist, St Helier Hospital
Dr Mamta Joshi – Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, St Helier Hospital
Dr Nikhil Johri – Consultant Chemical Pathologist, St Helier Hospital
Dr Giuseppe Maltese – Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinologist, St Helier Hospital
Dr Ratnasingham Nithiyananthan – Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinologist, Epsom Hospital
Dr Colin Sinclaire – Consultant Acute Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinologist
Dr Mark Sutton-Smith – Consultant Acute Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinologist.