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Dr James Falconer Smith

Name:
Dr James Falconer Smith DM, FRCP, FRCPath
Practising at:
Spire Leicester Hospital
Specialties:
  • Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus
    • Thyroid disease
Year of first medical qualification:
1970
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
Fellow of Royal College of Physicians
Fellow of Royal College of Pathologists
Member of Association of Clinical Biochemists
 
Contact Details 
Telephone number to make a private appointment:
0116 265 3685
Availability:
1st Thursday of each month
 
Background Information 
Professional profile:

Dr James Falconer Smith trained at Christchurch, Oxford and The Middlesex Hospital, London before taking up a role as Senior Registrar and lecturer in chemical pathology at Radcliffe Royal Infirmary in Oxford. A Consultant Clinical Pathologist at University Hospitals Leicester for 28 years, he recently retired from the NHS and now focuses his attention on his private practice.

Dr Falconer Smith has a special interest in thyroid problems and lipid disease.

Thyroid problems:

  • Patients wth an underactive thyroid
  • Patients on thyroxine therapy
  • Patients with borderline thyroid blood test results

 

Lipid disease
Advice and management for:

  • Patients with a family history of raised cholesterol and/or early heart disease or stroke
  • Patients found through screening to have raised blood fats
  • Patients with early onset heart or blood vessel disease
  • Patients who are intolerant of statins
Personal profile:

Dr Falconer Smith is married and has one cat and has lived in Leicester since 1983. He reads widely, both fiction and non-fiction, loves to listen to light classical music and has recently taken up golfing. Dr Falconer Smith’s guilty pleasure is ‘Strictly Come Dancing’!

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Dr James Falconer Smith

Dr James Falconer Smith Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus Consultant, Leicester, private hospital specialist.

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