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Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Haematologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer
Imperial College Healthcare, London (St Mary’s Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital).
Duties include: 14/09/1998-till date

Main duties:
-Haematology Unit Training Lead (UTL) -Chairman of Haematology Local Faculty Group
-Joint Haematology & Blood Transfusion lead for North West London Pathology (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Hospitals, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Hillingdon Hospital & West Middlesex Hospital)

Research interests

Prevention of venous thrombosis
Thrombophilia & pregnancy loss
Pregnancy and thrombosis
Novel mutation in Bernard Soulier syndrome
Novel fibrinogen thrombotic mutations
Cord blood stem cells

Personal interests

Travelling
Gardening
Reading

Awards received

Long service 20-year award as a consultant
Bronze clinical excellence award

Publications

Peer reviewed

1. Shlebak AA. Platelet genesis: Unraveling an incredible journey! Ibnosina J Med Biomed Sci 2017;9:4-101.
2. Shlebak AA, Bain BJ. Training Future Haematologists, a privilege or a burden? “A trainer’s view”. BJH 2017.
3. Shlebak A A, Alexia D Katsarou, George Adams, Fiona Fernando. A novel mutation in exon 2 of FGB caused by c.221G>T substitution, predicting the replacement of of the native Arginine at position 74 with a Leucine (p.Arg74Leu ) in a Kurdish family with dysfibrinogenaemia and familial venous and arterial thrombosis. Thromb and Thrombolysis Journal Thromb Thrombolysis (2016).
4. Shlebak AA et al. The impact of the DoH Commissioning for Quality and Innovation incentive on the venous thromboembolism risk assessment implementation in hospitalised patients: A single institution experience over a 4-year cycle, a quality improvement outcome. JRSM Open 2016.
5. Shlebak AA. Cerebral venous thrombosis as a manifestation of antiphospholipid syndrome. J Clin Path; 2016; 69 (4):337-43.
6. Pintilie H, Raghunanan S, Shlebak A, Everitt A, Foster C. Venous sinus thrombosis in a patient with perinatally acquired HIV, a paediatric case report HIV MEDICINE 2016 17:36-36.
7. Shlebak AA, Anthony Poles, Richard Manning, Shaikha Almuhareb, Josu De La Funte, Mike Mitchell and Geoff Lucas. A novel homozygous c.800C>G substitution in GP1BA exon2 predicting the replacement 1 of the native Serine at codon 267 with a premature termination codon (p.Ser267*) in a Kuwaiti family with Bernard-Soulier syndrome. 2015 Acta Haematology 2015;134:193-198.
8. Victoria Campbell, Kevin Marriott and Shlebak AA. Successful Aortic Aneurysm Repair in a Woman with Severe von Willebrand (Type 3) Disease. Case Rep Hematol. Case Rep Hematol 2015.
9. Shlebak AA. Novel Oral Anticoagulants: A New Era in Anti-Thrombotic Therapy. Ibnosina J Med BS 2013:247-253.
10. Samantha Coulson, Aruchuna Mohanaruban, Abdul Shlebak and Antoni Sergot. (2012). An unusual cause of bleeding in an elderly patient. Clinical Medicine 2012, Vol 12, No 2: 150–2.
11. Bentley P, Banerjee S, Hamady M, Gordon M, Davis J, Marley S, Williamson D, McColgan P, Mehta A, Waldman A, Quest R, McRobbie D, Shlebak A, Nicholls J, Habib N, Chataway J. Phase I trial of intra-arterial autologous CD34+ haematopoeitic stem cells in acute ischaemic stroke. 2011 Int J Stroke.
12. Shlebak AA, Iqbal Malik. (2009) Managing heparin in patients with prosthetic cardiac valves “balancing the risk”. Heart 2009; 95:1643-1645

Courses offered to GPs

Anticoagulation, old & new
Diagnosis and management of thrombosis
Cancer associated thrombosis
Criteria for haematology referrals to secondary care